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Chapter V The Plan
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

She took his hand, and began with all the art of persuasion that she possessed.

‘One question, Geoffrey, before I say what I want to say. Lady Lundie has invited you to stay at Windygates. Do you accept her invitation? or do you go back...
Chapter XVII Near It
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The Library, at Windygates, was the largest and the handsomest room in the house. The two grand divisions under which Literature is usually arranged in these days, occupied the customary places in it. On the shelves which ran round the walls, were the books...
Chapter XXV Followed
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Master and servant set forth together silently, on their way through the grounds. Arrived within sight of the summer-house, Sir Patrick ordered Duncan to wait—and went on by himself.

There was not the least need for the precaution that he had taken. The summer-house was...
Chapter XXXVIII The Night Before
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The time was the night before the marriage. The place was Sir Patrick’s house in Kent. Nothing in the shape of an obstacle had occurred. The settlements had been signed two days since.

With the exception of the surgeon, and one of the three young...
Chapter XLV Julius Makes Mischief
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Julius Delamayn was alone; idly sauntering to and fro, with his violin in his hand, on the terrace at Swanhaven Lodge.

The first mellow light of evening was in the sky. It was the close of the day on which Anne Silvester had left Perth....
Chapter XLVIII The Explosion
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Arnold’s mind was far from easy when he was left by himself again in the smoking-room.

After wasting some time, in vainly trying to guess at the source from which Lady Lundie had derived her information, he put on his hat, and took the direction...
Chapter LIX The Manuscript
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

1.

My Confession:—To be put into my coffin; and to be buried with me when I die.

‘This is the history of what I did, in the time of my married life. Here—known to no other mortal creature, confessed to my Creator alone—is...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

During the rapid movement from the block-house, and until the party was deeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in the escape,...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters. Alice sate upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man, with her delicate...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The tribe, or rather half-tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh...
Of Mr. Ralph Nickleby, and his Establishment, and his Undertakings. And of a great Joint Stock Company of vast national Importance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. ralph
nickleby was not, strictly speaking, what you would call a merchant, neither was he a banker, nor an attorney, nor a special pleader, nor a notary. He was certainly not a tradesman, and still less could he lay any claim...
Nicholas and his Uncle (to secure the Fortune without loss of time) wait upon Mr. Wackford Squeers, the Yorkshire Schoolmaster
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Snow
hill! What kind of place can the quiet town’s-people who see the words emblazoned, in all the legibility of gilt letters and dark shading, on the north-country coaches, take Snow Hill to be? All people have some undefined and shadowy notion of a...
Newman Noggs inducts Mrs. and Miss Nickleby into their New Dwelling in the City
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Miss
nickleby’s reflections, as she wended her way homewards, were of that desponding nature which the occurrences of the morning had been sufficiently calculated to awaken. Her uncle’s was not a manner likely to dispel any doubts or apprehensions she might have...
Acquaints the Reader with the Cause and Origin of the Interruption described in the last Chapter, and with some other Matters necessary to be known
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Newman
noggs scrambled in violent haste upstairs with the steaming beverage, which he had so unceremoniously snatched from the table of Mr. Kenwigs, and indeed from the very grasp of the water-rate collector, who was eyeing the contents of the tumbler, at the moment...
Wherein Nicholas at length encounters his Uncle, to whom he expresses his Sentiments with much Candour. His Resolution
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Little Miss La Creevy trotted briskly through divers streets at the west end of the town, early on Monday morning—the day after the dinner—charged with the important commission of acquainting Madame Mantalini that Miss Nickleby was too unwell to attend that day, but hoped...
Of the Great Bespeak for Miss Snevellicci, and the first Appearance of Nicholas upon any Stage
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Nicholas was up betimes in the morning; but he had IN scarcely begun to dress, notwithstanding, when he heard footsteps ascending the stairs, and was presently saluted by the voices of Mr. Folair the pantomimist, and Mr. Lenville die tragedian.

‘House, house, house!’ cried Mr....
Concerning a young Lady from London, who joins the Company, and an elderly Admirer who follows in her Train; with an affecting Ceremony consequent on their Arrival
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The new piece being a decided hit, was announced for every evening of performance until further notice, and the evenings when the theatre was closed, were reduced from three in the week to two. Nor were these the only tokens of extra-ordinary success; for,...
Miss Nickleby, rendered desperate by the Persecution of Sir Mulberry Hawk, and the Complicated Difficulties and Distresses which surround her, appeals, as a last resource, to her Uncle for Protection
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The ensuing morning brought reflection with it, as morning JL usually does; but widely different was the train of thought it awakened in the different persons who had been so unexpectedly brought together on the preceding evening, by the active agency of Messrs. Pyke...
Smike becomes known to Mrs. Nickleby and Kate. Nicholas also meets with new Acquaintances. Brighter Days seem to dawn upon the Family
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Having established his mother and sister in the apartments of the kind-hearted miniature painter, and ascertained that Sir Mulberry Hawk was in no danger of losing his life, Nicholas turned his thoughts to poor Smike, who, after breakfasting with Newman Noggs, had remained, in...
Comprises certain Particulars arising out of a Visit of Condolence, which may prove important hereafter. Smike unexpectedly encounters a very old Friend, who invites him to his House, and will take no Denial
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or of their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses,...
Containing Matter of a surprising Kind
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘As we gang awa’ fra’ Lunnun to-morrow neeght, and as I dinnot know that I was e’er so happy in a’ my days, Misther Nickleby, Ding! but I will tak’ anoother glass to our next merry meeting!’

So said John Browdie, rubbing his hands...
Chronicles thefurther Proceedings of the Nickleby Family, and the Sequel of the Adventure of the Gentleman in the Small-clothes
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

While Nicholas, absorbed in the one engrossing subject of interest which had recently opened upon him, occupied his leisure hours with thoughts of Madeline Bray, and in execution of the commissions which the anxiety of brother Charles in her behalf imposed upon him, saw...
In which one Scene of this History is closed
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Dividing the distance into two days’ journey, in order that his charge might sustain the less exhaustion and fatigue from travelling so far, Nicholas, at the end of the second day from their leaving home, found himself within a very few miles of the...
Wherein Nicholas and his Sister forfeit the good Opinion of all worldly and prudent People
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On the next morning after Brooker’s disclosure had been made, Nicholas returned home. The meeting between him and those whom he had left there, was not without strong emotion on both sides; for they had been informed by his letters of what had occurred:...
Chapter the First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

IGHT is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together, but saving in the country I seldom go out...
Chapter the Fourth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Quilp resided on Tower Hill; and in her bower on Tower Hill, Mrs. Quilp was left to pine the absence of her lord, when he quitted her on the business which he has been already seen to transact.

Mr. Quilp could...
Chapter the Eleventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Quiet and solitude were destined to hold uninterrupted rule no longer, beneath the roof that sheltered the child. Next morning the old man was in a raging fever accompanied with delirium, and sinking under the influence of this disorder he lay for many weeks...
Chapter the Eighteenth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Jolly Sandboys was a small road-side inn of pretty ancient date, with a sign, representing three Sandboys increasing their jollity with as many jugs of ale and bags of gold, creaking and swinging on its post on the opposite side of the road....
Chapter the Twenty-Fifth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

After a sound night's rest in a chamber in the thatched roof, in which it seemed the sexton had for some years been a lodger, but which he had lately deserted for a wife and a cottage of his own, the child rose early...
Chapter the Twenty-Seventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When they had travelled slowly forward for some short distance, Nell ventured to steal a look round the caravan and observe it more closely. One half of it—that moiety in which the comfortable proprietress was then seated—was carpeted, and so partitioned off at the...
Chapter the Thirtieth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

At length the play came to an end, and Mr. Isaac List rose the only winner. Mat and the landlord bore their losses with professional fortitude. Isaac pocketed his gains with the air of a man who had quite made up his mind to...
Chapter the Thirty-Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted, somewhere hereabouts, with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of Mr. Sampson Brass, and as a more convenient place than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose,...
Chapter the Thirty-Seventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The single gentleman among his other peculiarities—and he had a very plentiful stock of which he every day furnished some new specimen—took a most extraordinary and remarkable interest in the exhibition of Punch.* If the sound of a Punch's voice,...
Chapter the Thirty-Ninth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

All that day, though he waited for Mr. Abel until evening, Kit kept clear of his mother's house, determined not to anticipate by the slightest approach the pleasures of the morrow, but to let them come in their full rush of delight, for to-morrow...
Chapter the Fortieth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Full of that vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning, Kit turned out at sunrise, and, with his faith in last night's enjoyments a little shaken by cool daylight and the return to everyday duties and occupations, went to meet...
Chapter the Forty-Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Her momentary weakness past, the child again summoned the resolution which had until now sustained her, and, endeavouring to keep steadily in her view the one idea that they were flying from disgrace and crime, and that her grandfather's preservation must depend solely upon...
Chapter the Forty-Fourth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The throng of people hurried by, in two opposite streams, with no symptom of cessation or exhaustion; intent upon their own affairs; and undisturbed in their business speculations, by the roar of carts and waggons laden with clashing wares, the slipping of horses’ feet...
Chapter the Forty-Seventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Kit’s mother and the single gentleman—upon whose track it is expedient to follow with hurried steps, lest this history should be chargeable with inconstancy, and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt—Kit's mother and the single gentleman,...
Chapter the Forty-Ninth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Kit’s mother might have spared herself the trouble of looking back so often, for nothing was further from Mr. Quilp's thoughts than any intention of pursuing her and her son, or renewing the quarrel with which they had parted. He went his...
Chapter the Fifty-First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The bland and open-hearted proprietor of Bachelor's Hall, slept on amidst the congenial accompaniments of rain, mud, dirt, damp, fog, and rats, until late in the day; when, summoning his valet Tom Scott to assist him to rise, and to prepare breakfast, he quitted...
Chapter the Fifty-Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Nell was stirring early in the morning; and having discharged her household tasks, and put everything in order for the good schoolmaster (though sorely against his will, for he would have spared her the pains), took down, from its nail by the fireside, a...
Chapter the Fifty-Sixth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

DAY or two after the Quilp tea-party at the Wilderness, Mr. Swiveller walked into Sampson Brass's office at the usual hour, and being alone in that Temple of Probity, placed his hat upon the desk, and taking from his pocket a small parcel...
Chapter the Sixty-Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A faint light, twinkling from the window of the counting-house on Quilp's wharf, and looking inflamed and red through the night-fog, as though it suffered from it like an eye, forewarned Mr. Sampson Brass, as he approached the wooden cabin with a cautious...
Chapter the Seventy-First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The dull, red glow of a wood fire—for no lamp or candle burnt within the room—showed him a figure, seated on the hearth with its back towards him, bending over the fitful light. The attitude was that of one who sought the heat....
Chapter II a novice amongst the great folk
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

At ten o’clock on the eventful Thursday the Towers’ carriage began its work. Molly was ready long before it made its first appearance, although it had been settled that she and the Miss Brownings were not to go until the last, or fourth, time...
Chapter V calf-love
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

One day, for some reason or other, Mr Gibson came home unexpectedly. He was crossing the hall, having come in by the garden-door—the garden communicated with the stable-yard, where he had left his horse—when the kitchen door opened, and the girl who was underling...
Chapter XV the new mamma
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

On Tuesday afternoon Molly returned home, to the home which was already strange, and what Warwickshire people would call ‘unked,’* to her. New paint, new paper, new colours; grim servants dressed in their best, and objecting to every change—from their master’s marriage...
Chapter XX mrs gibson’s visitors
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

One day, to Molly’s infinite surprise, Mr Preston was announced as a caller. Mrs Gibson and she were sitting together in the drawing-room; Cynthia was out—gone into the town a-shopping—when the door was opened, the name given, and in walked the young man. His...
Chapter XXV hollingford in a bustle
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

All Hollingford felt as if there was a great deal to be done before Easter this year.* There was Easter proper, which always required new clothing of some kind, for fear of certain consequences from little birds, who were supposed to resent...
Chapter XXVI a charity ball
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

At the present time there are few people at a public ball besides the dancers and their chaperones, or relations in some degree interested in them. But in the days when Molly and Cynthia were young—before railroads were, and before their consequences, the excursion-trains,...
Chapter XXXI a passive coquette
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It is not to be supposed that such an encounter as Mr Preston had just had with Roger Hamley sweetened the regards in which the two young men henceforward held each other. They had barely spoken to each other before, and but seldom met;...
Chapter XXXVIII mr kirkpatrick, q.c.
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Cynthia was always the same with Molly: kind, sweet-tempered, ready to help, professing a great deal of love for her, and probably feeling as much as she did for any one in the world. But Molly had reached to this superficial depth of affection...
Chapter XLIV molly gibson to the rescue
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It seemed curious enough, after the storms of the night, to meet in smooth tranquillity at breakfast. Cynthia was pale; but she talked as quietly as usual about all manner of indifferent things, while Molly sate silent, watching and wondering, and becoming convinced that...
Chapter XLVI hollingford gossips
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘My dear Molly, why didn’t you come and dine with us? I said to sister I would come and scold you well. Oh, Mr Osborne Hamley, is that you?’ and a look of mistaken intelligence at the tête-à-tête she had disturbed...
Chapter LIII unlooked-for arrivals
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robinson opened the door for Molly almost before the carriage had fairly drawn up at the Hall, and told her that the squire had been very anxious for her return, and had more than once sent him to an upstairs window, from which a...
Chapter LVII bridal visits and adieux
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The whole town of Hollingford came to congratulate and inquire into particulars. Some indeed—Mrs Goodenough at the head of this class of malcontents—thought that they were defrauded of their right to a fine show by Cynthia’s being married in London. Even Lady Cumnor was...
Chapter VII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘You are Mr. Kirkwood ? ’ said his visitor civilly. * My name is Snowdon. I should be glad to speak a few words with you, if you could spare the time.’

Sidney’s thoughts were instantly led into the right channel ; he identified the...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

She rose early, in the murky cold of the winter morning. When, at eight o’clock, she knocked as usual at her grandfather’s door his answer made her tremble.

‘ I shall be down in a few minutes, Jane ; I’ll have breakfast with you.’
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Amid the anguish of heart and nerve which she had to endure whilst her grandfather lay dead in the house, Jane found and clung to one thought of consolation. He had not closed his eyes in the bitterness of disappointment. The end might have...
12: Weddings
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

When they reached the house at Herne Hill, the sisters were both in a state of nervous tremor. Monica had only the vaguest idea of the kind of person Mrs Luke Widdowson would prove to be, and Virginia seemed to herself to be walking...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

I left Mary, on that same Thursday night which left its burden of woe...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

At five minutes before two, Job Legh stood upon the door-step of the house where Mr. Bridgenorth lodged at Assize time. He had left Mrs. Wilson at...
Chapter IV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

On the day when the unhappy Porteous was expected to suffer the sentence of the law, the place of execution, extensive as it is, was crowded almost to suffocation. There was not a window in...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

I’ll warrant that fellow from drowning, were the ship no stronger than a nut-shell. - The Tempest

Butler felt neither fatigue nor want of refreshment, although, from the mode in which he had spent the night, he might well have been overcome with either....
Chapter XV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Witchcraft and demonology, as we have had already occasion to remark, were at this period believed in by almost all ranks, but more especially...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

When Mrs Saddletree entered the apartment in which her guests had shrouded their misery, she found the window darkened. The feebleness which...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

In the present day, a journey from Edinburgh to London is a matter at once safe, brief, and simple, however inexperienced or unprotected the traveller. Numerous coaches of different rates of charge, and as many packets, are...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Few names deserve more honourable mention in the history of Scotland, during this period, than that of John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich. His...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Prince
John held his high festival in the Castle of...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the...
The Audience
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. de Treville was at this moment in a very bad humour; nevertheless, as the young man bowed to the ground, he politely saluted him, and smiled on receiving his compliments, which in their accent, recalled both his youth and his country at...
The Intrigue Becomes Confused
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When his visit to M. de Treville was ended, d’Artagnan took, in pensive mood, the longest road to return to his own home.

But what were the meditations which thus led him from his way; contemplating, with successive sighs and smiles, the stars that glittered...
The Plan of Campaign
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan went straight to M. de Treville. He had reflected that the cardinal would, in a few minutes, be put upon his guard by that cursed stranger, who appeared to be his agent, and he very wisely thought that there was not a...
How, without disturbing himself, Athos obtained his Equipment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan was so completely confounded, that, without considering what would become of Kitty, he ran through half of Paris, and did not stop till he found himself at Athos’s door. The confusion of his mind, the terror which spurred him on, the shouts...
A Terrible Vision
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Richelieu rested his elbow on his manuscript, and his cheek on his hand, and looked at d’Artagnan for an instant. No one had an eye more profoundly penetrating than the cardinal; and the young man felt this gaze running through his veins like a...
A Message from The Cardinal
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Three days afterwards, the four musketeers re-entered Paris. They were within the limit of their furlough, and, the same evening, they went to pay the usual visit to M. de Treville.

‘Well, gentlemen,’ inquired the brave captain, ‘have you found yourselves amused in your excursion?’...
I ‘A fair vestal, throned in the west.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Elfride Swancourt* was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Their nature more precisely, and as modified by the creeping hours of time, was known only to those who watched the circumstances of her history.

Personally she was the combination of very...
XXXIV ‘Yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Sixteen hours had passed. Knight was entering the ladies’ boudoir at The Crags, upon his return from attending the inquest touching the death of Mrs. Jethway. Elfride was not in the apartment.

Mrs. Swancourt made a few enquiries concerning the verdict and collateral circumstances. Then...
I
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The rambler who for old association’s sake should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional* line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey, in the vicinity of some extensive...
XIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The encounter with the carriages forced Winterborne’s mind back again to the houses of his which would fall into Mrs. Charmond’s possession in the event of South’s death. He marvelled, as many have done since, what could have induced his ancestors at Hintock, and...
XV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Melbury heard what had happened he seemed much moved, and walked thoughtfully about the premises. On South’s own account he was genuinely sorry; and on Winter-borne’s he was the more grieved in that this catastrophe had so closely followed the somewhat...
XIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Instead of resuming his investigation of South’s brain Fitzpiers reclined and ruminated on the interview. Grace’s curious susceptibility to his presence—though it was as if the currents of her life were disturbed rather than attracted by him—added a special interest to her general charm....
XXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

With this in view Melbury took her out for a walk, a custom of his when he wished to say anything specially impressive. Their way was towards that lofty ridge bordering their woodland and the western extremity of the Vale of Blackmoor, the ridge...
XXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

She walked up the soft grassy ride, screened on either hand by nut-bushes, just now heavy with clusters of twos and threes and fours. A little way on the track she pursued was crossed by a similar one at right angles. Here Grace stopped;...
XXXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

All night did Winterborne think over that unsatisfactory ending of a pleasant time, forgetting the pleasant time itself. He feared anew that they could never be happy together, even should she be free to choose him. She was accomplished: he was unrefined. It was...
XLI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The first hundred yards of their course lay under motionless trees, whose upper foliage began to hiss with falling drops of rain. By the time that they emerged upon a glade it rained heavily.

“This is awkward,” said Grace, with a forced little laugh to...
XLIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken. The next day she kept her room. Old Jones was called in: he murmured some statements in which the words “feverish symptoms” occurred. Grace heard them, and guessed the means by which...
XLVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Were the inventors of automatic machines to be ranged according to the excellence of their devices for producing sound, artistic torture, the creator of the man-trap would occupy a very respectable, if not a very high place.

It should rather, however, be said, the inventor...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He received three days after this a communication from America, in the form of a scrap of blue paper folded and gummed, not reaching him through his bankers, but delivered at his hotel by a small boy in uniform, who, under instructions from the...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

What he saw was exactly the right thing—a boat advancing round the bend and containing a man who held the paddles and a lady, at the stern, with a pink parasol. It was suddenly as if these figures, or something like them, had been...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether couldn’t have said he had during the previous hours definitely expected it; yet when, later on, that morning—though no later indeed than for his coming forth at ten o’clock—he saw the concierge produce, on his approach, a petit bleu delivered since...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

His purpose had been to see Chad the next day, and he had prefigured seeing him by an early call; having in general never stood on ceremony in respect to visits in the Boulevard Malesherbes. It had been more often natural for...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber....
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

So
much mute communication was doubtless, all this time, marvellous, and we may confess to having perhaps read into the scene, prematurely, a critical character that took longer to develop. Yet the quiet hour of reunion enjoyed that afternoon by the father and the...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He
Had talked to her of their waiting in Paris, a week later, but on the spot there this period of patience suffered no great strain. He had written to his daughter, not indeed from Brighton, but directly after their return to Fawns, where...
XIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He
Hadtaken it from her, as we have seen, moreover, that Fanny Assingham didn’t now matter—the ‘now’ he had even himself supplied, as no more than fair to his sense of various earlier stages; and, though his assent remained scarce more than tacit, his...
XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
Maininterest of these hours for us, however, will have been in the way the Prince continued to know, during a particular succession of others, separated from the evening in Eaton Square by a short interval, a certain persistent aftertaste. This was the lingering...
XXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I can’t say more,’ this made his companion reply, ‘than that something in her face, her voice and her whole manner acted upon me as nothing in her had ever acted before; and just for the reason, above all, that I felt her...
XXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Amerigo
wasaway from her again, as she sat there, as she walked there without him—for she had, with the difference of his presence in the house, ceased to keep her-self from moving about; but the hour was filled neverthe-less with the effect of his...
XXVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

There
hadbeen, from far back—that is from the Christmas time on—a plan that the parent and the child should ‘do something lovely’ together, and they had recurred to it on occasion, nursed it and brought it up theoretically, though without as yet quite allowing...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In that lively sense of the immediate which is the very air of a child’s mind the past, on each occasion, became for her as indistinct as the future: she surrendered herself to the actual with a good faith that might have been touching...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The idea of what she was to make up and the prodigious total it came to were kept well before Maisie at her mother’s. These things were the constant occupation of Mrs Wix, who arrived there by the back stairs, but in tears of...
XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As she met the Captain’s light blue eyes the greatest marvel occurred; she felt a sudden relief at finding them reply with anxiety to the horror in her face. ‘What in the world has he done?’ He put it all on Sir Claude.

‘He has...
XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

If for reasons of her own she could bear the sense of Sir Claude’s displeasure her young endurance might have been put to a serious test. The days went by without his knocking at her father’s door, and the time would have turned sadly...
XIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When he had lighted a cigarette and begun to smoke in her face it was as if he had struck with the match the note of some queer clumsy ferment of old professions, old scandals, old duties, a dim perception of what he possessed...
XXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Nothing so dreadful of course could be final or even for many minutes prolonged: they rushed together again too soon for either to feel that either had kept it up, and though they went home in silence it was with a vivid perception for...
XXVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The greatest wonder of all was the way Mrs Beale addressed her announcement, so far as could be judged, equally to Mrs Wix, who, as if from sudden failure of strength, sank into a chair while Maisie surrendered to the visitor’s embrace. As soon...
‘Yoked with an Unbeliever’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

I am dying for you, and you are dying for another.

Punjabi Proverb.

When the Gravesend tender* left the P. & O. steamer for Bombay and went back to catch the tram to Town, there were many people in it crying....
His Chance in Life
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Oatta’s Story.

If you go straight away from Levées...
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Life’s...
A Germ-Destroyer
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods

When great Jove nods;

But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes

In missing the hour when great Jove wakes.

As a general rule, it is inexpedient to meddle with questions of State in a land...
In Error
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

They burnt a corpse upon the sand—

The light shone out afar;

It guided home the plunging boats

That beat from Zanzibar.

Spirit of Fire, where’er Thy altars rise,

Thou art Light of Guidance to our eyes!

Salsette* Boat-Song.

There is hope...
The Daughter of the Regiment
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Jain ’Ardin’ was a Sargint’s wife,

A Sargint’s wife wus she.

She married of ’im in Orldershort

An’ corned acrost the sea.

(Chorus) ’Ave you never ’eard tell o’ Jain ’Ardin’?

Jain ’Aidin’?

Jain ’Ardin’?

’Ave you never ’eard tell o’ Jain ’Ardin’?...
The Bisara of Pooree
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Little Blind Fish, thou art marvellous wise,

Little Blind Fish, who put out thy eyes?

Open thy ears while I whisper my wish—

Bring me a lover, thou little Blind Fish.

The Charm of the Bisara.

Some natives say that it came from the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A month went by, and a great calm had once more descended upon the flat which the Roubauds occupied on the first floor of the station, above the waiting-rooms. For them, for their neighbours along the corridor, and for this whole little world of...
VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In order to get uncle Bachelard to give Berthe a dowry, for the past two weeks the Josserands had been asking him to dinner almost every evening, in spite of his revolting habits.

When they told him about the marriage all he did was pat...
Advertisement
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

The following Work is delivered to the world as the first of a series of performances, which the favorable reception of this will induce the Writer to publish. His purpose is neither selfish nor temporary, but aims at the illustration of some important branches...
Chapter I
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I feel* little reluctance in complying with your request. You know not fully the cause of my sorrows. You are a stranger to the depth of my distresses. Hence your efforts at consolation must necessarily fail. Yet the tale that I am going...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Six years of uninterrupted happiness had rolled away, since my brother’s marriage. The sound of war had been heard, but it was at such a distance as to enhance our enjoyment by affording objects of comparison. The Indians were repulsed on the one side,...
Chapter X
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Order could not readily be introduced into my thoughts. The voice still rung in my ears. Every accent that was uttered by Carwin was fresh in my remembrance. His unwelcome approach, the recognition of his person, his hasty departure, produced a complex impression on...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Here was wrought a surprising change in my friend. What was it that had shaken conviction so firm? Had anything occurred during my fit, adequate to produce so total an alteration? My attendants informed me that he had not left my apartment;...
Memoirs of Carwin, The Biloquist
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I was the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western district of Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and the...
Part Third
Authors: Maurier George Du
Published: December 2020

One lovely Monday morning in late September, at about eleven or so, Taffy and...
Chapter 2 priestly kings
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

The two questions to be answered.

The questions which we have set ourselves to answer are mainly two: first, why had Diana’s priest at Nemi, the King of the Wood, to slay his predecessor? second, why before doing so had he to pluck...
Chapter 9 the succession to the kingdom
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

What was the rule of succession to the Latin kingship?

On the other hand none of the Roman kings was immediately succeeded by his son, but three were succeeded by their sons-in-law, who were foreigners.

This suggests that the kingship was transmitted in the female...
Chapter 3 temporary kings
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Annual abdication of kings and their places temporarily taken by nominal sovereigns.

Temporary kings in Cambodia.

In some places the modified form of the old custom of regicide which appears to have prevailed at Babylon has been further softened down. The king still abdicates...
Chapter 21 eating the god
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

Custom of eating the new corn sacramentally as the body of the corn-spirit.

Loaves baked of the new corn in human shape and eaten.

We have now seen that the corn-spirit is represented sometimes in human, sometimes in animal form, and that in...
Chapter 22 the flesh diet
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Custom of killing and eating the corn-spirit sacramentally.

Belief of the savage that by eating an animal or man he acquires the qualities of that animal or man.

The practice of killing a god has now been traced amongst peoples who have reached the...
Chapter 1 between heaven and earth
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

The priest of Aricia and the Golden Bough.

What was the Golden Bough?

We have travelled far since we turned our backs on Nemi and set forth in quest of the secret of the Golden Bough. We now enter on the last stage...
Chapter 2 the seclusion of girls
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

Girls at puberty forbidden to touch the ground and to see the sun.

Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Baganda.

Now it is remarkable that the foregoing two rules—not to touch the ground and not to see the sun—are observed either separately...
That Rare Jewel
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘What are you laughing at, Sherman? You seem to find something endlessly amusing in your smoke-wreaths, or the roof of the piazza, or the sky yonder.’

‘Nothing so soothing as smoke, Hal, so simple as boards, or so natural as the sky. I’m laughing...
The Rocking-Chair
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

A waving spot of sunshine, a signal light that caught the eye at once in a waste of commonplace houses, and all the dreary dimness of a narrow city street.

Across some low roof that made a gap in the wall of masonry, shot a...
The Misleading of Pendleton Oaks
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

There’s many a trick to the red, red fox—

The white snake well can please—

And the tree-toad hides behind the box

Beside your very knees.

But the smiling guile of a witch-eyed girl

Is deeper far than these.

The Second Daughter

It all came...
Five Girls
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘There won’t be many more such good times as these for us,’ said Olive Sargent, mournfully hugging her knees as she sat on the floor under the big Victory; ‘we’ve got to go out into the cold world presently and earn our livings.’...

‘I...
An Unnatural Mother
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘Don’t tell me!’ said old Mis’ Briggs, with a forbidding shake of the head; ‘no mother that was a mother would desert her own child for anything on earth!’

‘And leaving it a care on the town, too!’ put in Susannah Jacobs, ‘as if...
In Two Houses
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

The blank, boarded windows, with which the two old Marshall houses faced, or rather sided, each other, told no tales of midnight danger; but shrill infant screams were more successful.

‘Fire! Fire! O Lawdy, Lawdy, de house is afire!’ yelled little black Polly, her red-tied...
Their House
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Mr Waterson’S house was small, owing to the smallness of his income, but it was clean, most violently and meticulously clean, owing to the proficiency of Mrs Waterson as a housekeeper.

Mrs Waterson, in Mr Waterson’s house, presented at times the appearance of an...
The Spectral Hand
Authors: Lorrain Jean
Published: December 2020

When the world was rocked by the scandal of the murder of the Comtesse d’Orthyse, my friend Jacques and I were by no means as astonished as everyone else. We had known for some time what tragic end that adorable woman was destined to...
Chapter X
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

I left Master Thomas’s house, and went to live with Mr. Covey, on the 1st of January, 1833. I was now, for the first time in my life, a field hand. In my new employment, I found myself even more awkward than a country boy...
IV A Day Behind the Counter
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

TOWARDS noon, Hepzibah saw an elderly gentleman, large and portly, and of remarkably dignified demeanor, passing slowly along, on the opposite side of the white and dusty street. On coming within the shadow of the Pyn-cheon-elm, he stopt, and (taking off his hat, meanwhile, to...
VIII The Pyncheon of To-Day
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

PHOEBE, on entering the shop, beheld there the already familiar face of the little devourer—if we can reckon his mighty deeds aright—of Jim Crow, the elephant, the camel, the dromedaries, and the locomotive. Having expended his private fortune, on the two preceding days, in the...
XVIII Governor Pyncheon
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

JUDGE PYNCHEON, while his two relatives have fled away with such ill-considered haste, still sits in the old parlor, keeping house, as the familiar phrase is, in the absence of its ordinary occupants. To him, and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables, does...
1
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn’t tell me to say she...
11
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I was certain you would come—I have felt it all day—something told me!’ It was with these words that Olive Chancellor greeted her young visitor, coming to her quickly from the window, where she might have been waiting for her arrival....
23
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Three weeks afterwards he stood in front of Olive Chancellor’s house, looking up and down the street and hesitating. He had told Mrs Luna that he should like nothing better than to make another journey to Boston; and it was not simply because he....
37
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Basil Ransom spent nearly a month at Marmion; in announcing this fact I am very conscious of its extraordinary character. Poor Olive may well have been thrown back into her alarms by his presenting himself there; for after her return from New...
41
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He walked about for the next two hours, walked all over Boston, heedless of his course, and conscious only of an unwillingness to return to his hotel and an inability to eat his dinner or rest his weary legs. He had been roaming in...
Chapter IV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

La...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Low on his fun’ral couch he lies!

No pitying heart, no eye, afford

A tear to grace his obsequies.’

On learning the purpose of Madame de la Motte’s letter, Adeline saw the necessity of her immediate departure for Paris. The life of...
The Stones of Venice, III (1853)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Grotesque Renaissance

Two great and principal passions are evidently appointed by the Deity to rule the life of man; namely, the love of God, and the fear of sin, and of its companion—Death. How many motives we have for Love, how much there is...
Chapter II
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Tradesmen and the scraper still troublesome. Gowing rather tiresome with his complaints of the paint. I make one of the best jokes of my life. Delights of gardening. Mr Stillbrook, Gowing, Cummings, and I have a little mis-understanding. Sarah makes me look a fool before...
Chapter III
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

A conversation with Mr Merton on Society. Mr and Mrs James, of Sutton, come up. A miserable evening at the Tank Theatre. Experiments with enamel paint. I make another good joke; but Gowing and Cummings are unnecessarily offended. I paint the bath red, with unexpected...
Chapter IV
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

The ball at the Mansion House

April 30.—Perfectly astounded at receiving an invitation for Carrie and myself from the Lord and Lady Mayoress to the Mansion House,* to ‘meet the Representatives of Trades and Commerce’. My heart beat like that of a...
Chapter IX
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a little annoying; but his friend, Mr Stillbrook, turns out to be quite amusing. Inopportune arrival of Mr Perkupp, but he is most kind and complimentary. Party a great success.

November 15.—A...