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Chapter XIII: An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the morning of the day after that on which I swore my oath against the Six, I gave certain orders, and then rested in greater contentment than I had known for some time. I was at work; and work, though it cannot cure...
Chapter XVI: A Desperate Plan
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As I had ridden publicly in Zenda, and had talked there with Rupert Hentzau, of course all pretence of illness was at an end. I marked the effect on the garrison of Zenda: they ceased to be seen abroad; and any of my men...
Chapter XVII: Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The night came fine and clear. I had prayed for dirty weather, such as had favoured my previous voyage in the moat, but Fortune was this time against me. Still I reckoned that by keeping close under the wall and in the shadow I...
Chapter XXI: If Love Were All!
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was night, and I was in the cell wherein the king had lain in the Castle of Zenda. The great pipe that Rupert of Hentzau had nicknamed ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ was gone, and the lights in the room across the moat twinkled in the...
After The Preaching
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In less than an hour from that time Seth Bede was walking by Dinah’s side along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green cornfields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had taken off her little quaker bonnet again, and...
Going to the Birthday Feast
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The thirtieth of July was come, and it was one of those half-dozen warm days which sometimes occur in the middle of a rainy English summer. No rain had fallen for the last three or four days, and the weather was perfect for that...
The Delivery of the Letter
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next Sunday Adam joined the Poysers on their way out of church, hoping for an invitation to go home with them. He had the letter in his pocket, and was anxious to have an opportunity of talking to Hetty alone. He could not...
More Links
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The barley was all carried at last, and the harvest suppers went by without waiting for the dismal black crop of beans. The apples and nuts were gathered and stored; the scent of whey departed from the farm-houses, and the scent of brewing came...
The Eve of the Trial
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor. It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the...
The Morning of the Trial
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

At one o’clock the next day, Adam was alone in his dull upper room;* his watch lay before him on the table, as if he were counting the long minutes. He had no knowledge of what was likely to be said by...
At The Hall Farm
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The first autumnal afternoon sunshine of 1801—more than eighteen months after that parting of Adam and Arthur in the Hermitage—was on the yard at the Hall Farm, and the bulldog was in one of his most excited moments; for it was that hour of...
Chapter III: A Controversy
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Two days after, Mrs. Graham called at Linden-car, contrary to the expectation of Rose, who entertained an idea that the mysterious occupant of Wildfell Hall would wholly disregard the common observances of civilized life,—in which opinion she was supported by the Wilsons, who testified...
Chapter IX: A Snake in the Grass
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Though my affections might now be said to be fairly weaned from Eliza Millward, I did not yet entirely relinquish my visits to the vicarage, because I wanted, as it were, to let her down easy; without raising much sorrow, or incurring much resentment,—or...
Chapter XI: The Vicar Again
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

You must suppose about three weeks past over. Mrs. Graham and I were now established friends—or brother and sister as we rather chose to consider ourselves. She called me Gilbert, by my express desire, and I called her Helen, for I had seen that...
Chapter XVII: Further Warnings
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

The next day I accompanied my uncle and aunt to a dinner party at Mr. Wilmot’s. He had two ladies staying with him, his niece Annabella, a fine dashing girl, or rather young woman, of some five and twenty, too great a flirt to...
Chapter XXXV: Provocations
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Nineteenth.—In proportion as Lady Lowborough finds she has nothing to fear from me, and as the time of departure draws nigh, the more audacious and insolent she becomes. She does not scruple to speak to my husband with affectionate familiarity in my presence, when...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present profoundly indifferent to Miss...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London under Ralph’s escort, though Mrs Touchett looked with little favour on the plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole would be sure to suggest, and...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs Touchett’s arrival at the invitation of this lady—Mrs Touchett offering her for a month the hospitality of Palazzo Crescentini—the judicious Madame Merle spoke to Isabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might...
XXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to her from the visit she presently paid to Mr Osmond’s hill-top. Nothing could have been more charming than this occasion—a soft afternoon in the full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The...
XXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after we cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion, breaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks. They were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude...
XXIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly qualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond’s personal merits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of that gentleman’s conduct during the rest of the visit to...
XXXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood at the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any of the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,...
XXXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before luncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and, instead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed beneath another archway and entered the garden. A sweeter spot at...
XXXVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs Osmond usually sat—though she was not in her most customary place to-night—and that a circle of more...
Struggle for Existence
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Bears on natural selection—The term used in a wide sense—Geometrical powers of increase—Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants—Nature of the checks to increase—Competition universal—Effects of climate—Protection from the number of individuals—Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature—Struggle for life most severe between...
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Classification, groups subordinate to groups—Natural system—Rules and difficulties in classification, explained on the theory of descent with modification—Classification of varieties—Descent always used in classification—Analogical or adaptive characters—Affinities, general, complex and radiating—Extinction separates and defines groups—Morphology, between members of the same class, between...
Recapitulation and Conclusion
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Recapitulation of the difficulties on the theory of Natural Selection—Recapitulation of the general and special circumstances in its favour—Causes of the general belief in the immutability of species—How far the theory of natural selection may be extended—Effects of its adoption on the study of natural...
The Arrival at Marseilles
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Château d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and...
Father and Son
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We will leave Danglars struggling with the feelings of hatred and endeavouring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner, Morrel, some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès who, after having traversed the Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering ...
The Plotters
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Danglars followed Edmond and Mercédès with his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen pale and trembling into his chair, whilst Caderousse stammered out the words of...
The Betrothal Feast
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The morning’s sun rose clear and resplendent, gilding the heavens, and even the foamy waves with its bright refulgent beams.

A plenteous feast had been prepared at La Réserve, with whose arbour the reader is already familiar. The apartment destined for the purpose was spacious,...
The Corsican Ogre
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the sight of this agitation Louis XVIII pushed away the table at which he was writing.

‘What ails you, M. le Baron?’ he exclaimed. ‘You look worried. This trouble—this hesitation—have they anything to do with what M. de Blacas has told me, and M....
In the Dungeons
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

A year after the restoration of Louis XVIII, a visit was made by the inspector-general of prisons.

Dantès heard from the recesses of his cell the noises made by the preparations for receiving him,—sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible...
Number 34 and Number 27
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

DantÈs passed through all the degrees of wretchedness that prisoners, forgotten in their dungeon, suffer. He began with pride, a natural consequence of hope, and a clear conscience; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor’s belief...
The Search
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The sun had nearly reached the meridian, and its scorching rays fell full on the rocks which cowered under the heat. Thousands of grasshoppers, hidden in the bushes, chirped with a monotonous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive-trees waved and...
The Prison Registers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The day after that on which the scene had passed on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire we have just related, a man of about thirty or two-and-thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock-coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and...
The Dinner
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was evident that one thought filled the minds of all the guests on entering the dining-room. Each one asked himself what strange influence had led them to this house; and yet, astonished, even uneasy though they were they still felt they would not...
The Inquiry
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. de
Villefort kept the promise he had made to Madame Danglars to try to find out how the Count of Monte Cristo had discovered the history of the house at Auteuil. He wrote the same day to M. de Boville, who, from...
The Hand of God
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Caderousse continued to call piteously:

‘M. l’Abbé, help! help!’

‘What is the matter?’ asked Monte Cristo.

‘Help,’ cried Caderousse; ‘I am murdered!’

‘We are here;—take courage!’

‘Ah, it’s all over! You are too late;—you have come to see me die. Such blows, so much blood!’...
Mercédès
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. de
Monte
Cristo waited, according to his usual custom, until Duprez had sung his famous ‘Suivez moi’; then he rose, and went out. Morrel took leave of him at the door, renewing his promise to be with him the next morning at...
The Meeting
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

After Mercédès had left Monte Cristo, a gloomy shadow seemed to cover everything. Around him and within him the flight of thought appeared stopped; his energetic mind slumbered as does the body after extreme fatigue.

‘What!’ said he to himself, while the lamp and the...
The Suicide
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Monte Cristo had also returned to town with Emmanuel and Maximilian. Their return was cheerful. Emmanuel did not conceal his joy at having seen peace succeed war, and acknowledged aloud his philanthropic tastes. Morrel, in a corner of the carriage, allowed his brother-in-law’s...
The Departure for Belgium
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

A few minutes after the scene of confusion produced in the salons of M. Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of soldiers and the disclosure which had followed, the large house was deserted with a rapidity which the announcement of a...
The Cemetery of Père-la-Chaise
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. de
Boville had indeed seen the funeral procession which conducted Valentine to her last home on earth. The weather was dull and stormy, a cold wind shook the few remaining yellow leaves from the trees and scattered them amongst the crowd which...
Chapter V
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the butt-ends of their loaded muskets on our door-step, caused the dinner-party to rise from table in confusion, and caused Mrs. Joe re-entering the kitchen empty-handed, to stop short and stare, in her wondering...
Chapter IX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss Havisham’s, and asked a number of questions. And I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and...
Chapter XI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

At the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham’s, and my hesitating ring at the gate brought out Estella. She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood. She took...
Chapter XII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My mind grew very uneasy on the subject of the pale young gentleman. The more I thought of the fight, and recalled the pale young gentleman on his back in various stages of puffy and incrimsoned countenance, the more certain it appeared that something...
Chapter XI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

After well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick’s being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. “Why, of course...
Chapter VI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Turning from the Temple gate as soon as I had read the warning, I made the best of my way to Fleet-street, and there got a late hackney chariot and drove to the Hummums* in Covent Garden. In those times a bed...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and on the other an immense case containing...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining-room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Marya, and Mademoiselle Bourienne, were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table, though the position of...
I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Vasili was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had become a...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Old Prince Nikolai Andreich Bolkonsky received a letter from Prince Vasili in November 1805 announcing that he and his son would be paying him a visit. ‘I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I shall think nothing of an extra...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Kutuzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the carabineers.

When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an inn, where two roads...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Early in the year 1806 Nikolai Rostov returned home on leave. Denisov was going home to Voronezh and Rostov persuaded him to travel with him as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at the last post-station but one...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested in their own play.

The whole interest was concentrated on Rostov. Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor Willarski, whom he recognized by his voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre replied: ‘Yes, yes, I agree,’ and with a...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Andrei arrived in Petersburg in August 1809. It was the time when the youthful Speransky was at the zenith of his fame* and his reforms were being pushed forward with the greatest energy. That same August the Emperor was thrown from...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nearly two years before this, in 1808, Pierre on returning to Petersburg after visiting his estates had involuntarily found himself in a leading position among the Petersburg Freemasons. He arranged dining and funeral Lodge meetings, enrolled new members, and busied himself uniting various Lodges...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next day Prince Andrei called at a few houses he had not visited before, and among them at the Rostovs’ with whom he had renewed acquaintance at the ball. Apart from considerations of politeness which demanded the call, he wanted to see that unique,...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During that year after his son’s departure, Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky’s health and temper became much worse. He grew still more irritable, and it was Princess Marya who generally bore the brunt of his frequent fits of unprovoked anger. He seemed carefully to seek...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the middle of the summer Princess Marya received an unexpected letter from Prince Andrei in Switzerland in which he gave her strange and surprising news. He informed her of his engagement to Natasha Rostova. The whole letter breathed loving rapture for his betrothed...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anatole
Kuragin was staying in Moscow because his father had sent him away from Petersburg, where he had been spending twenty thousand rubles a year in cash, besides running up debts for as much more which his creditors demanded from his father.

His father announced...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

A few intimate friends were dining with the Rostovs that day, as usual on Sundays.

Pierre came early so as to find them alone.

He had grown so stout this year that he would have been abnormal had he not been so tall,...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At that moment Count Rastopchin with his protruding chin and alert eyes, wearing the uniform of a general with sash over his shoulder, entered the room, stepping briskly to the front of the crowd of gentry.

‘Our sovereign the Emperor will be here in a...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Mikhail Ivanovich returned to the study with the letter, the old prince, with spectacles on and a shade over his eyes, was sitting at his open bureau with screened candles, holding a paper in his outstretched hand, and in a somewhat dramatic attitude...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess
Marya was not in Moscow and out of danger as Prince Andrei supposed.

After the return of Alpatych from Smolensk the old prince suddenly seemed to awake as from a dream. He ordered the militiamen to be called up from the villages and armed,...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Pierre returned home he was handed two of Rastopchin’s broadsheets that had been brought that day.

The first declared that the report that Count Rastopchin had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen’s wives...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which according to the doctor the battlefield could be seen.

It was about eleven o’clock. The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him, and brightly lit up the...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On that bright evening of August the 25th, Prince Andrei lay leaning on his elbow in a broken-down shed in the village of Knyazkovo at the further end of his regiment’s encampment. Through a gap in the broken wall he could see, beside the...
27
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the 25th of August, so his historians tell us, Napoleon spent the whole day on horseback inspecting the locality, considering plans submitted to him by his marshals, and personally giving commands to his generals.

The original line of the Russian forces along the river...
I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind. Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Council of War began to assemble at two in the afternoon in the better and roomier part of Andrei Savostyanov’s hut. The men, women, and children of the large peasant family crowded into the back room across the passage. Only Malasha, Andrei’s six-year-old...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevsky’s battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and, seeing blood and hearing cries and groans, hurried...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the 30th of August Pierre reached Moscow. Close to the gates of the city he was met by Count Rastopchin’s adjutant.

‘We have been looking for you everywhere,’ said the adjutant. ‘The count wants to see you particularly. He asks you to come to...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nikolai sat leaning slightly forward in an armchair, bending closely over the blonde lady and paying her mythological compliments with a smile that never left his face.

Jauntily shifting the position of his legs in their tight riding-breeches, diffusing an odour of perfume, and admiring...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On reaching Moscow after her meeting with Rostov Princess Marya had found her nephew there with his tutor, and a letter from Prince Andrei giving her instructions how to get to her Aunt Malvintseva at Voronezh. That feeling akin to temptation which had tormented...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From Prince Shcherbatov’s house the prisoners were led straight down the Virgin’s Field, to the left of the convent, as far as a kitchen-garden in which a post had been set up. Beyond that post a fresh pit had been dug in the ground,...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next day the troops assembled at their appointed places in the evening and advanced during the night. It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain. The ground was damp but not muddy, and the troops advanced noiselessly, only occasionally a...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

But strange to say all these measures, efforts, and plans—which were not at all worse than others issued in similar circumstances—did not affect the essence of the matter but, like the hands of a clock detached from the mechanism, swung about in an arbitrary...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was a warm rainy autumn day. The sky and the horizon were both the colour of muddy water. At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting rain came down.

Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap, from which...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After talking for some time with the esaul about next day’s attack, which now, seeing how near they were to the French, he seemed to have definitely decided on, Denisov turned his horse and rode back.

‘Now, my lad, we’ll go and get dwy,’ he...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At midday on the 22nd of October Pierre was going uphill along the muddy, slippery road, looking at his feet and at the roughness of the way. Occasionally he glanced at the familiar crowd around him, and then again at his feet. The former...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After Pierre’s departure that first evening, when Natasha had said to Princess Marya with a gaily mocking smile: ‘He looks just, yes, just as if he had come out of a Russian bath—in a short little coat and with his hair close cropped’, something...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the winter of 1813 Nikolai married Princess Marya and moved to Bald Hills with his wife, his mother, and Sonya.

Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife’s property, and having received a small inheritance...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The conversation at supper was not about politics or societies, but turned on the subject Nikolai liked best—recollections of 1812. Denisov started these, and Pierre was particularly agreeable and amusing about them. The family separated on the most friendly terms.

After supper Nikolai, having undressed...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other’s thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deductions, or conclusions, and...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When an event is taking place people express their opinions and wishes about it, and as the event results from the collective activity of many people, some one of the opinions or wishes expressed is sure to be fulfilled if but approximately. When one...
Chapter IV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

As they entered the house in Crown-street, they perceived that the door would not open freely on its hinges, and Susan instinctively looked behind to see the cause of the obstruction. She immediately recognised the appearance of a little parcel wrapped in...
A Few More Lessons
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

I rose, next morning, with a feeling of hopeful exhilaration, in spite of the disappointments already experienced; but I found the dressing of Mary Ann was no light matter, as her abundant hair was to be smeared with pomade, plaited in three long...
The Grandmamma
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

I spare my readers the account of my delight on coming home, my happiness while there—enjoying a brief space of rest and liberty in that dear, familiar place, among the loving and the loved—and my sorrow on being obliged to bid them, once...
The Primroses
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Miss Murray now always went twice to church, for she so loved admiration that she could not bear to lose a single opportunity of obtaining it; and she was so sure of it, wherever she showed herself, that whether Harry Meltham and Mr. Green...
Mirth and Mourning
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

The first of June arrived at last; and Rosalie Murray was transmuted into Lady Ashby. Most splendidly beautiful she looked in her bridal costume.

Upon her return from church after the ceremony, she came flying into the school-room, flushed with excitement, and laughing . ....
The Park
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

I came down a little before eight, next morning, as I knew by the striking of a distant clock.* There was no appearance of breakfast. I waited above an hour before it came, still vainly longing for access to the library;...
The Sands
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Our school was not situated in the heart of the town: on entering A——from the north-west there is a row of respectable looking houses, on each side of the broad, white road, with narrow slips of garden ground before them, Venetian blinds to the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all,—who find themselves ill at ease, unless they are let into the whole secret from first to last, of every thing...
Chapter VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In the beginning of the last chapter, I inform'd you exactly when I was born;—but I did not inform you, how. No; that particular was reserved entirely for a chapter by itself;— besides, Sir, as you and I are in...
Chapter XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Yorick was this parson's name, and, what is very remarkable in it, (as appears from a most antient account of the family, wrote upon strong vellum, and now in perfect preservation) it had been exactly so spelt for near, 1 was within...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The
Mortgager and Mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the Jester and jesteé do, in that of memory. But in this the comparison between them runs, as the scholiasts call it, upon...
Chapter XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——How could you, Madam, be so inattentive in reading the last chapter? I told you in it, That my mother was not a papist.—— Papist! You told me no such thing, Sir. Madam, I beg leave to repeat it over again, That I...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The learned Bishop Hall,1 I mean the famous Dr. Joseph Hall, who was Bishop of Exeter in King James the first's reign, tells us in one of his Decads, at the end of...
Chapter II
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

There is nothing so foolish, when you are at the expence of making an entertainment of this kind, as to order things so badly, as to let your criticks and gentry of refined taste run it down: Nor is there any thing so likely...
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When Dr. Slop entered the back parlour, where my father and my uncle Toby were discoursing upon the nature of women,——it was hard to determine whether Dr. Slop's figure, or Dr. Slop's presence, occasioned more surprize...
Chapter I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——"I wish, Dr. Slop," quoth my uncle Toby (repeating his wish for Dr. Slop a second time, and with a degree of more zeal and earnestness in his manner of wishing, than he had wished it at...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——Bless my soul!——my poor mistress is ready to faint, ——and her pains are gone,——and the drops are done, ——and the bottle of julap is broke, and the nurse has cut her arm,——(and I, my thumb, cried Dr. Slop) and the child...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Let us go back to the ****** hi the last chapter.

It is a singular stroke of eloquence (at least it was so, when eloquence flourished at Athens and Rome, and would be so now, did orators wear mantles) not to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Dr. Slop was within an ace of being an exception to all this argumentation: for happening to have his green bays bag upon his knees, when he began to parody my uncle Toby,——'twas as good as the best mantle in...
Chapter XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Tho' my father persisted in not going on with the discourse,—yet he could not get my uncle Toby's smoak-jack out of his head,—piqued as he was as first with it; there was something in the comparison at the bottom, which hit his...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——This unfortunate draw-bridge of yours, quoth my father—God bless your honour, cried Trim, 'tis a bridge for master's nose.——In bringing him into the world with his vile instruments, he has crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Of all the tracts my father was at the pains to procure and study in support of his hypothesis, there was not any one wherein he felt a more cruel disappointment at first, than in the celebrated dialogue between Pamphagus and ...
CHAPTER XIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY father was returned from his walk to the fish-pond—and opened the parlour-door in the very height of the attack, just as my uncle Toby was marching up the glacis—Trim recovered his arms—never was my uncle Toby caught riding...
Chapter VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——My young master in London is dead! said Obadiah.— —A green sattin night-gown of my mother's, which had been twice scoured, was the first idea which Obadiah's exclamation brought into Susannah's head.—Well might Locke write...
Chapter XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Am a Turk if I had not as much forgot my mother, as if Nature had plaistered me up, and set me down naked upon the banks of the river Nile,1 without one. Your most obedient servant,...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——'TWAS nothing,—I did not lose two drops of blood by it 'twas not worth calling in a surgeon, had he lived next door to us thousands suffer by choice, what I did by accident.——Doctor Slop made ten times more of it, than there...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——Then, Yorick, replied my uncle Toby, you and I will lead the way abreast,—— and do you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us.——And Susannah, an please your honour, said Trim, shall be put in the rear.——'Twas...
CHAPTER XXXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE description of the siege of Jerico1 itself, could not have engaged the attention of my uncle Toby more powerfully than the last chapter;—his eyes were fixed upon my father, throughout it;—he never mentioned radical heat and radical moisture, but...
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

It was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond1 was taken by the allies,—which was about seven years before my father came into the country,—and about as many, after the time, that my uncle Toby...
CHAPTER VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe, that corporal Trim returned from the inn, and gave him the following account.

I despaired at first, said the corporal, of being able to bring back your honour any...
CHAPTER VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

It was to my uncle Toby's eternal honour,——though I tell it only for the sake of those, who, when coop'd in betwixt a natural and a positive law,1 know not for their souls, which way in the world to turn...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When my uncle Toby had turned every thing into money, and settled all accounts betwixt the agent of the regiment and Le Fever, and betwixt Le Fever and all mankind,——there remained nothing more in my uncle Toby's...
CHAPTER XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

We are now going to enter upon a new scene of events.——

-——Leave we then the breeches in the taylor's hands, with my father standing over him with his cane, reading him as he sat at work a lecture upon the latus davus,...
CHAPTER XXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

What a tract of country have I run!—how many degrees nearer to the warm sun am I advanced, and how many fair and goodly cities have I seen, during the time you have been reading, and reflecting, Madam, upon this story! There's FONTAINBLEAU, and...
CHAPTER XXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——All you need say of Fontainbleau (in case you are ask'd) is, that it stands about forty miles (south something) from Paris, in the middle of a large forest——That there is something great in it——That the king goes there once, every...
CHAPTER XLI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

No matter how, or in what mood—but I flew from the tomb of the lovers—or rather I did not fly from it—(for there was no such thing existing) and just got time enough to the boat to save my passage;—and e'er I had...
Chapter I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——BUT softly——for in these sportive plains, and under this genial sun, where at this instant all flesh is running out piping, fiddling, and dancing to the vintage, and every step that's taken, the judgment is surprised by the imagination, I defy, notwithstanding all that has...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE Fates, who certainly all foreknew of these amours of widow Wadman and my uncle Toby, had, from the first creation of matter and motion (and with more courtesy than they usually do things of this kind) established such a chain of causes and effects...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THESE attacks of Mrs. Wadman, you will readily conceive to be of different kinds; varying from each other, like the attacks which history is full of, and from the same reasons. A general looker on, would scarce allow them to be attacks at all——or if...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IN love!——said the corporal—your honour was very well the day before yesterday, when I was telling your honour the story of the King of Bohemia—Bohemia! said my uncle Toby---- musing a long time---What became of that story, Trim?

—We lost it, an' please your honour,...
CHAPTER VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

ALL womankind, continued Trim, (commenting upon his story) from the highest to the lowest, an' please your honour, love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they chuse to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying as we do with...
CHAPTER X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY mother had gone with her left arm twisted in my father's right, till they had got to the fatal angle of the old garden wall, where Doctor Slop was overthrown by Obadiah on the coach-horse: as this was directly opposite to the front of...
CHAPTER XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

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It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée* in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and...
The Young King
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the...
The Doer of Good
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was night-time and He was alone.

And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards the city.

And when He came near He heard within the city the tread of the feet of joy, and the laughter of the mouth...
Pico della Mirandola
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. To reconcile forms of sentiment which at first sight seem incompatible, to...
Luca della Robbia
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

The Italian sculptors of the earlier half of the fifteenth century are more than mere forerunners of the great masters of its close, and often reach perfection within the narrow limits which they chose to impose on their work. Their sculpture shares with the...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

There could hardly be an happier creature in the world, than Mrs. John Knightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning among her old acquaintance with her five children, and talking over what she had done every evening with her father...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Every body in and about Highbury who had ever visited Mr. Elton, was disposed to pay him attention on his marriage. Dinner-parties and evening-parties were made for him and his lady; and invitations flowed in so fast that she had soon the pleasure of...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;—with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself. She and Mrs. Weston were obliged...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A Very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. She was soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all apprehensive or embarrassed; it...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Henry crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edmund had determined that it belonged entirely to Fanny to chuse whether her situation with regard to Crawford should be mentioned between them or not; and that if she did not lead the way, it should never be touched on by him; but after...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edmund now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that Fanny could tell, or could leave to be conjectured of her sentiments, and he was satisfied.—It had been, as he before presumed, too hasty a measure on Crawford’s side, and time must be given to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest state of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar’s Buildings.—The two...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Allen were sorry to lose their young friend, whose good-humour and cheerfulness had made her a valuable companion, and in the promotion of whose enjoyment their own had been gently increased. Her happiness in going with Miss Tilney, however, prevented their...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

An hour passed away before the General came in, spent, on the part of his young guest, in no very favourable consideration of his character.—‘This lengthened absence, these solitary rambles, did not speak a mind at ease, or a conscience void of reproach.’—At length...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Soon after this, the General found himself obliged to go to London for a week; and he left Northanger earnestly regretting that any necessity should rob him even for an hour of Miss Morland’s company, and anxiously recommending the study of her comfort and...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

One day, soon after Charlotte’s arrival at Sanditon, she had the pleasure of seeing just as she ascended from the Sands to the Terrace, a Gentleman’s Carriage with Post Horses standing at the door of the Hotel, as very lately arrived, and by the...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Charlotte had been ten days at Sanditon without seeing Sanditon House, every attempt at calling on Lady D. having been defeated by meeting with her beforehand. But now it was to be more resolutely undertaken, at a more early hour, that nothing might be...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast.—They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The guests arrived early, in carriages, one-horse carts, two-wheeled traps, ancient open gigs, and wagonettes with leather curtains; the young people from the nearest villages travelled standing up in wagons, packed closely together and holding onto the rails so as not to fall as they...
Chapter VI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

She had read Paul et Virginie*, and had dreamed of the bamboo hut, of Domingo the black man and Fidèle the dog, but above all of the sweet friendship of a dear little brother who’d pick crimson fruit for you...
Chapter XI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Homais had recently read an article praising a new method for curing club foot; and, as he was a believer in progress, he came up with a patriotic scheme: Yonville, to ‘keep up with the times’, should have an operation for talipes.

‘Because,’ as he...