bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Chapter 30
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Josh Perrott earned his marks, and in less than four years from his conviction he came away from Portland. It was a mere matter of hours ere his arrival in London, when Dicky, hands in pockets, strolled along Old Jago Street, and by the...
Chapter I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The clock on the Bourse* had just struck eleven when Saccard walked into Champeaux’s,* into the white and gold dining-room, with its two tall windows looking out over the square. He cast his eye over the rows of little tables,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The offices of L’Espérance, the failing Catholic paper that Saccard had bought at Jantrou’s suggestion to help launch the Universal, were in the Rue Saint-Joseph, in a dark and damp old building of which they occupied the first floor, at the far...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Two months later, on a mild, grey November day, Madame Caroline went up to the workroom straight after lunch to get to work. Her brother, now in Constantinople, and busy with his grand Oriental railways project, had asked her to look up the notes...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Madame
Caroline, horrified, sent a telegram that very evening to her brother, who still had one more week in Rome; and three days later, rushing to the scene of danger, Hamelin arrived in Paris.

There was a fierce encounter between Saccard and the engineer,...
Ginger’s Story continued
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The next time that Ginger and I were together in the paddock, she told me about her first place.

‘After my breaking in,’ she said, ‘I was bought by a dealer to match another chestnut horse. For some weeks he drove us together, and then...
The Parting
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I had now lived in this happy place three years, but sad changes were about to come over us. We heard from time to time that our mistress was ill. The Doctor was often at the house, and the master looked grave and anxious....
The Butcher
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London, and much of it that might have been prevented by a little common sense. We horses do not mind hard work if we are treated reasonably; and I am sure there are...
Jakes and the Lady
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I was sold to a corn dealer and baker, whom Jerry knew, and with him he thought I should have good food and fair work. In the first he was quite right, and if my master had always been on the premises, I do...
Hard Times
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I shall never forget my new master, he had black eyes and a hooked nose, his mouth was as full of teeth as a bull dog’s and his voice was as harsh as the grinding of cart wheels over gravel stones. His name was...
The Aspern Papers
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I

I Had taken Mrs Prest into my confidence; without her in truth I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who found the short cut and loosed the...
Chapter II: History of Political Society
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Frequency of war—among the ancients—among the moderns—the French—the English.—Causes of war.—Penal laws.—Despotism.—Deduction.—Enumeration of arguments.

While we enquire whether government is capable of improvement, we shall do well to consider its present effects. It is an old observation, that the history of mankind is...
Chapter II: Of Justice
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Connection of politics and morals.—Extent and meaning of justice.—Subject of justice: mankind.—Its distribution measured by the capacity of its subject—by his usefulness.—Family affection considered.—Gratitude considered.—Objections: from ignorance—from utility.—An exception stated.—Degrees of justice.—Application.—Idea of political justice.

From what has been said it appears, that...
Chapter VI: Of the Exercise of Private Judgment
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Foundation of virtue.—Human actions regulated: 1. by the nature of things.—2. by positive institution.—Tendency of the latter: 1. to excite virtue.—Its equivocal character in this respect.—2. to inform the judgment.—Its inaptitude for that purpose.—Province of conscience considered.—Tendency of an interference with that province.—Recapitulation.—Arguments in favour...
Chapter IV: Of Political Authority
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Common deliberation the true foundation of government—proved from the equal claims of mankind—from the nature of our faculties—from the object of government—from the effects of common deliberation.—Delegation vindicated.—Difference between the doctrine here maintained and that of a social contract apparent—from the merely prospective nature of...
Chapter III: Of Tyrannicide
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Diversity of opinions on this subject.—Argument in its vindication.—The destruction of a tyrant not a case of exception.—Consequences of tyrannicide.—Assassination described.—Importance of sincerity.

A question, connected with the mode of effecting revolutions, and which has been eagerly discussed among political reasoners, is...
Chapter IV: Of the Cultivation of Truth
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Perhaps there cannot be a subject of greater political importance, or better calculated to lead us in safety through the mazes of controversy, than that of the value of truth. Truth may be considered by us, either abstractedly, as it relates to certain general...
Chapter V: Of Free Will and Necessity
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Importance of the question.—Definition of necessity.—Why supposed to exist in the operations of the material universe.—The case of the operations of mind is parallel.—Indications of necessity—in history—in our judgments of character—in our schemes of policy—in our ideas of moral discipline.—Objection from the fallibility of our...
Chapter VI: Inferences from the Doctrine of Necessity
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Idea it suggests to us of the universe.—Influence on our moral ideas—action—virtue—exertion—persuasion—exhortation—ardour—complacence and aversion—punishment—repentance—praise and bland blame—intellectual tranquillity.—Language of necessity recommended.

Considering then the doctrine of moral necessity as sufficiently established, let us proceed to the consequences that are to be deduced from...
Chapter III: Private Life of a Prince
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Principles by which he is influenced—irresponsibility—impatience of control—habits of dissipation—ignorance—dislike of truth—dislike of justice—pitiable situation of princes.

Such is the culture; the fruit that it produces may easily be conjectured. The fashion which is given to the mind in youth, it ordinarily retains...
Chapter VIII: Of Limited Monarchy
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Liable to most of the preceding objections—to farther objections peculiar to itself.—Responsibility considered.—Maxim, that the king can do no wrong.—Functions of a limited monarch.—Impossibility of maintaining the neutrality required.—Of the dismission of ministers.—Responsibility of ministers.—Appointment of ministers, its importance—its difficulties.—Recapitulation.—Strength and weakness of the human...
Chapter XII: Of Titles
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Their origin and history.—Their miserable absurdity.—Truth the only adequate reward of merit.

The case of mere titles is so absurd that it would deserve to be treated only with ridicule, were it not for the serious mischiefs it imposes on mankind. The feudal...
Chapter XIII: Of the Aristocratical Character
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Intolerance of aristocracy—dependent for its success upon the ignorance of the multitude.—Precautions necessary for its support.—Different kinds of aristocracy.—Aristocracy of the romans: its virtues—its vices.—Aristocratical distribution of property—regulations by which it is maintained—avarice it engenders.—Argument against innovation from the present happy establishment of affairs considered.—Conclusion...
Chapter XVII: Of the Object of War
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

The repelling an invader.—Not reformation—not restraint—not indemnification.—Nothing can be a sufficient object of war that is not a sufficient cause for beginning it.—Reflections on the balance of power.

Let us pass from the causes to the objects of war. As defence is the...
Chapter XIX: Of Military Establishments and Treaties
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

A country may look for its defence either to a standing army or an universal militia.—The former condemned.—The latter objected to as of immoral tendency—as unnecessary—either in respect to courage—or discipline.—Of a commander.—Of treaties.

The last topic which it may be necessary to...
Chapter XXII: Of the Future History of Political Societies
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Quantity of administration necessary to be maintained.—Objects of administration: national glory—rivalship of nations.—Inferences: 1. complication of government unnecessary—2. extensive territory superfluous—3. constraint, its limitations.—Project of government: police—defence.

We have now endeavoured to deduce certain general principles upon most of the subjects of legislative...
Chapter XXIV: Of the Dissolution of Government
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Political authority of a national assembly—of juries.—Consequence from the whole.

It remains for us to consider what is the degree of authority necessary to be vested in such a modified species of national assembly as we have admitted into our system. Are they...
Chapter I: General Effects of the Political Superintendence of Opinion
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Arguments in favour of this superintendence.—Answer.—The exertions of society in its corporate capacity are, 1. unwise—2. incapable of proper effect.—Of sumptuary laws, agrarian laws and rewards.—Political degeneracy not incurable.—3. superfluous—in commerce—in speculative enquiry—in morality.—4. pernicious—as undermining intellectual capacity—as suspending intellectual improvement—contrary to the nature of...
Chapter V: Of Oaths
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Oaths of office and duty—their absurdity—their immoral consequences.—Oaths of evidence: less atrocious.—Opinion of the liberal and resolved respecting them.—Their essential features: contempt of veracity—false morality.—Their particular structure—abstract principles assumed by them to be true—their inconsistency with these principles.

The same arguments that prove...
Chapter IV: Of the Application of Coercion
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Delinquency and coercion incommensurable—external action no proper subject of criminal animadversion—how far capable of proof.—Iniquity of this standard in a moral—and in a political view.—Propriety of a retribution to be measured by the intention of the offender considered.—Such a project would overturn criminal law—would abolish...
Chapter IX: Of Pardons
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Their absurdity.—Their origin.—Their abuses.—Their arbitrary character.—Destructive of morality.

There is one other topic which belongs to the subject of the present book, but which may be dismissed in a very few words, because, though it has unhappily been in almost all cases neglected...
Chapter III: Of the Objection to this System from the Admirable Effects of Luxury
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Nature of the objection.—Luxury not necessary—either to population—or to the improvement of the mind.—Its true character.

These ideas of justice and improvement are as old as literature and reflexion themselves. They have suggested themselves in detached parts to the inquisitive in all ages,...
Chapter VI: Of the Objection to this System from the Inflexibility of its Restrictions
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Nature of the objection.—Natural and moral independence distinguished—the first beneficial—the second injurious.—Tendency of restriction properly so called.—The genuine system of property not a system of restrictions—;does not require common labour, meals or magazines.—Such restrictions absurd—and unnecessary.—Evils of cooperation.—Its province may perpetually be diminished.—Manual labour may...
Pechorin’s Journal: Foreword
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

I Recently heard that Pechorin had died on his way home from Persia. I was very glad of the news, which gave me the right to publish these notes, and I have taken the opportunity of putting my name to another’s work. God...
Princess Mary
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

11 May

Yesterday I arrived at Pyatigorsk and rented an apartment on the outskirts of town, at its highest point, at the foot of Mount Mashuk.* When there’s a thunderstorm, the clouds will hang level with my roof. At five o’clock today,...
1
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

The steppes. A Kalmyk tent. The spas of the Caucasus. The Georgian Military Highway. Vladikavkaz. An Ossetian funeral. The Terek. The Daryal Gorge. Crossing the snowy mountains. First glimpse of Georgia. Aqueducts. Khozrev-Mirza. The Mayor of Dusheti.

… From Moscow I travelled...
Chapter XII New Year’s Fête
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

All this enlargement of interest in the shop occupied Philip fully for some months after the period referred to in the preceding chapter. Remembering his last conversation with his aunt, he might have been uneasy at his inability to perform his promise...
Chapter XVII Rejected Warnings
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The post arrived at Monkshaven three times in the week; sometimes, indeed, there were not a dozen letters in the bag, which was brought thither by a man in a light mail-cart, who took the better part of a day to drive from York;...
Chapter XXXI Evil Omens
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The first step in Philip’s declension happened in this way. Sylvia had made rapid progress in her recovery; but now she seemed at a stationary point of weakness; wakeful nights succeeding to languid days. Occasionally she caught a little sleep in the afternoons, but...
Chapter XXXV Things Unutterable
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After Philip had passed out of the room, Sylvia lay perfectly still, from very exhaustion. Her mother slept on, happily unconscious of all the turmoil that had taken place; yes, happily, though the heavy sleep was to end in death. But of this her...
Chapter XLIII The Unknown
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

A few days before that on which Philip arrived at Monkshaven, Kester had come to pay Sylvia a visit. As the earliest friend she had, and also as one who knew the real secrets of her life, Sylvia always gave him the warm welcome,...
Lilian Dale becomes a Butterfly
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now we will go back to Allington. The same morning that brought to John Eames the two letters which were given in the last chapter but one, brought to the Great House, among others, the following epistle for Adolphus Crosbie. It was from...
Lily Dale’s First Love-Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Crosbie was rather proud of himself when he went to bed. He had succeeded in baffling the charge made against him, without saying anything as to which his conscience need condemn him. So, at least, he then told himself. The impression left by what...
Pawkins’s in Jermyn Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The show of fat beasts in London took place this year on the twentieth day of December, and I have always understood that a certain bullock* exhibited by Lord De Guest was declared by the metropolitan butchers to have realized all the...
The Combat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I have said that John Eames was at his office punctually at twelve; but an incident had happened before his arrival there very important in the annals which are now being told,—so important that it is essentially necessary that it should be described...
Lily’s Bedside
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lily
Dale’s constitution was good, and her recovery was retarded by no relapse or lingering debility; but, nevertheless, she was forced to keep her bed for many days after the fever had left her. During all this period Dr Crofts came every day. It...
Valentine’s Day in London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness. Nevertheless Lady Alexandrina De Courcy looked as bright as bridal finery could make her, when...
John Eames at his Office
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Crosbie and his wife went upon their honeymoon tour to Folkestone in the middle of February, and returned to London about the end of March. Nothing of special moment to the interests of our story occurred during those six weeks, unless the proceedings...
The Greshams of Greshamsbury
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours...
Sentence of Exile
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Dr Thorne did not at once go home to his own house. When he reached the Greshamsbury gates, he sent his horse to its own stable by one of the people at the lodge, and then walked on to the mansion. He
The Duke of Omnium
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke of Omnium was, as we have said, a bachelor. Not the less on that account did he on certain rare gala days entertain the beauty of the county at his magnificent rural seat, or the female fashion of London in Belgrave-square. But...
The Small End of the Wedge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank
Gresham was absent from Greshamsbury twelve months and a day. A day is always added to the period of such absences, as shown in the history of Lord Bateman* and other noble heroes. We need not detail all the circumstances of...
A Morning Visit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It must be remembered that Mary, among her miseries, had to suffer this;—that since Frank’s departure, now nearly twelve months ago, she had not heard a word about him; or rather, she had only heard that he was very much in love with some...
The Two Doctors Change Patients
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Dr
Fillgrave still continued his visits to Greshamsbury, for Lady Arabella had not yet mustered the courage necessary for swallowing her pride and sending once more for Dr Thorne. Nothing pleased Dr Fillgrave more than those visits.

He habitually attended grander families, and richer people;...
How the Bride was Received, and Who Were Asked to the Wedding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And thus after all did Frank perform his great duty; he did marry money; or rather, as the wedding has not yet taken place, and is, indeed, as yet hardly talked of, we should more properly say that he had engaged himself to marry...
Harold Smith in the Cabinet
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

For a few days the whole Harold Smith party held their heads very high. It was not only that their man had been made a cabinet minister; but a rumour had got abroad that Lord Brock, in selecting him, had amazingly strengthened his party,...
‘Magna Est Veritas’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was made known to the reader that in the early part of the winter Mr Sowerby had a scheme for retrieving his lost fortunes and setting himself right in the world by marrying that rich heiress, Miss Dunstable. I fear my...
Dr Thorne
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Miss Dunstable met her friends the Greshams,—young Frank Gresham and his wife,—at Gatherum Castle, she immediately asked after one Dr Thorne, who was Mrs Gresham’s uncle. Dr Thorne was an old bachelor,* in whom both as a man and a doctor...
Lady Lufton is Taken by Surprise
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord
Lufton, as he returned to town, found some difficulty in resolving what step he would next take. Sometimes, for a minute or two, he was half inclined to think,—or rather to say to himself,—that Lucy was perhaps not worth the trouble which she...
Kidnapping at Hogglestock
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The great cry, however, did not take long, and Lucy was soon in the pony-carriage again. On this occasion her brother volunteered to drive her, and it was now understood that he was to bring back with him all the Crawley children. The whole...
Is She not Insignificant?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now a month went by at Framley without any increase of comfort to our friends there, and also without any absolute development of the ruin which had been daily expected at the parsonage. Sundry letters had reached Mr Robarts from various personages acting...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Next day, Mouret spent the morning spying on his new tenant. This occupation would fill the empty hours he spent at home fussing around, tidying things that had not been put away, picking quarrels with his wife and children. From now on he had...
The Warden’s Tea Party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

After much painful doubting, on one thing only could Mr Harding resolve. He determined that at any rate he would take no offence, and that he would make this question no cause of quarrel either with Bold or with the bedesmen. In furtherance of...
Tribulation
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Harding was a sadder man than he had ever yet been when he returned to his own house. He had been wretched enough on that well-remembered morning when he was forced to expose before his son-in-law the publisher’s account for ushering into the...
The Warden’s Decision
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The meeting between Eleanor and her father was not so stormy as that described in the last chapter, but it was hardly more successful. On her return from Bold’s house she found her father in a strange state. He was not sorrowful and silent...
The Two Girls
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the little town of Plumplington last year,* just about this time of the year,—it was in November,—the ladies and gentlemen forming the Plumplington Society were much exercised as to the affairs of two young ladies. They were both the only daughters...
Christmas-Day
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Now I’ll tell you what we’ll do,’ said the Doctor to his wife a few days after the two marriages had been arranged in the manner thus described. It yet wanted ten days to Christmas, and it was known to all Plumplington that the Doctor...
Of a Second Chamber
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

Of all topics relating to the theory of representative government, none has been the subject of more discussion, especially on the Continent, than what is known as the question of the Two Chambers. It has occupied a greater amount of the attention of thinkers...
III
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

On the other point which is involved in the just equality of women, their admissibility to all the functions and occupations hitherto retained as the monopoly of the stronger sex, I should anticipate no difficulty in convincing any one who has gone with me...
IV
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

There remains a question, not of less importance than those already discussed, and which will be asked the most importunately by those opponents whose conviction is somewhat shaken on the main point. What good are we to expect from the changes proposed in our...
The Sign Of The Four
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sherlock
Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested...
The Speckled Band
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as...
The Greek Interpreter
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until...
Chapter III I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Presently there came a great rattling of chains and bolts, and the door was cautiously opened and shut to again behind me as soon as I had passed.

‘Go into the kitchen and touch naething,’ said the voice; and while the person of the house...
Chapter V I Go to the Queen’s Ferry
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Much rain fell in the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had vanished, I made my way...
Chapter VII I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Came to myself in darkness, in great pain, bound hand and foot, and deafened by many unfamiliar noises. There sounded in my ears a roaring of water as of a huge mill-dam, the thrashing of heavy sprays, the thundering of the sails,...
Chapter XI The Captain Knuckles Under
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Alan and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was covered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood, which took away my hunger. In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable but...
Chapter XIX The House of Fear
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Night fell as we were walking, and the clouds, which had broken up in the afternoon, settled in and thickened, so that it fell, for the season of the year, extremely dark. The way we went was over rough mountain sides; and though Alan...
Chapter XXII The Flight in the Heather: The Moor
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Some seven hours’* incessant, hard travelling brought us early in the morning to the end of a range of mountains. In front of us there lay a piece of low, broken, desert land, which we must now cross. The sun was not...
Chapter XXIV The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Alan and I were put across Loch Errocht under cloud of night, and went down its eastern shore to another hiding-place near the head of Loch Rannoch, whither we were led by one of the gillies from the Cage. This fellow carried all our...
Chapter 7 ‘Doctor Thorne’—‘The Bertrams’—‘The West Indies and the Spanish Main’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As I journeyed across France to Marseilles, and made thence a terribly rough voyage to Alexandria, I wrote my allotted number of pages every day. On this occasion more than once I left my paper on the cabin table, rushing away to be sick...
From ‘A Walk in a Wood’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The most difficult thing that a man has to do is to think. There are many that can never bring themselves really to think at all, but do whatever thinking is done by them in a chance fashion, with no effort … My purpose...
Chapter 2
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

They continued talking for a while, recalling with outrage and pleasure their classes together and a whole series of Holzapfel’s unsuitable topics. They couldn’t stop until Hulda suddenly said, ‘It’s high time, Effi; you look, well, how can I put it, you look as if...
Chapter 15
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Effi left in the middle of August; by the end of September she was back in Kessin. Several times during those six weeks she had felt a desire to be back, but when she was home again and entered the dark hallway, that was only...
Chapter 33
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Two days later, as the Minister’s wife had promised, a note arrived and Effi read:

‘I am delighted, my dear Frau von Innstetten, that I have good news for you. Everything went as we wanted; your husband is too much of a gentleman...
Chapter 23 miss lily dale’s resolution
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The ladies at the Small House at Allington breakfasted always at nine,—a liberal nine;* and the postman whose duty it was to deliver letters in that village at half-past eight, being also liberal in his ideas as to time, always arrived punctually...
Chapter 30 showing what major grantly did after his walk
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In going down from the church to the Small House Lily Dale had all the conversation to herself. During some portion of the way the path was only broad enough for two persons, and here Major Grantly walked by Lily’s side, while Grace followed...
Chapter 53 rotten row
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lily had heard nothing as to the difficulty about her horse, and could therefore enjoy her exercise without the drawback of feeling that her uncle was subjected to an annoyance. She was in the habit of going out every day with Bernard and Emily...
Chapter 72 mr toogood at the dragon of wantly
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In accordance with his arrangement with Mr Walker, Mr Toogood went over to Barchester early in the morning and put himself up at the Dragon of Wantly. He now knew the following facts; that Mr Soames, when he lost his cheque, had had with...
Chapter 76 i think he is light of heart
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs Arabin remained one day in town. Mr Toogood, in spite of his asseveration that he would not budge from Barchester till he had seen Mr Crawley through all his troubles, did run up to London as soon as the news reached...
Chapter VII: Market—Museum—Picture Gallery—Academy of Fine Arts—Drawing School—Phrenological Society—Miss Wright’s Lecture
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

Perhaps the most advantageous feature in Cincinnati is its market, which, for excellence, abundance, and cheapness, can hardly, I should think, be surpassed in any part of the world, if I except the luxury of fruits, which are very inferior to any I have...
Chapter XXVII: Return to Stonington—Thunder-storm—Emigrants—Illness—Alexandria
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

A fortnight passed rapidly away in this great city, and, doubtless, there was still much left unseen when we quitted it, according to previous arrangement, to return to our friends in Maryland. We came back by a different route, going by land from...
Chapter XXX: Journey to New York—Delaware River—Stage-coach—City of New York—Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies—Theatres—Public Garden—Churches—Morris Canal—Fashions—Carriages
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

At length, spite of the lingering pace necessarily attending consultations, and arrangements across the Atlantic, our plans were finally settled; the coming spring was to shew us New York and Niagara and the early summer was to convey us home.

No sooner did the letter...
Chapter XXXII: Journey to Niagara—Hudson—West Point—Hyde Park—Albany—Yankees—Trenton Falls—Rochester—Genesee Falls—Lockport
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

How quickly weeks glide away in a city such as New York, especially when you reckon among your friends some of the most agreeable people in either hemisphere. But we had still a long journey before us, and one of the wonders of the...
Part One
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Chapter 1

That morning, Jean had tied a blue canvas seed-bag round his waist, and was holding it open with his left hand while, with his right, he took out a handful of corn and at every third step scattered it in all directions...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was four o’clock and the day was just dawning, a rosy early May morning.* Under the whitening sky, the buildings that made up La Borderie dozed on, half in darkness, three long buildings sitting along the three sides of the vast...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Since the day before, Jean had been driving the mechanical reaper in the few acres of meadow that were part of La Borderie, on the banks of the Aigre. From dawn till dusk, you could hear the regular clattering of the blades. That particular...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For a whole year, Fouan lived like this in silence in his desolate house. He could always be found roaming around the place, with trembling hands, never sitting down, doing nothing. He would spend hours contemplating the rotting old troughs in the cowshed and...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Since the month of May, after the shearing and the sale of the young stock animals, Soulas the shepherd had taken the sheep out of La Borderie, driving nearly four hundred animals on his own, with the little swineherd Auguste and his two dogs,...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Months went by, winter came and went, then spring, and life in Rognes went on in its usual way, it took years for it to look as if anything had been achieved, in this mournful life of never-ending toil. In July, however, in the...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Before the winter ploughing had begun, the Beauce lay covered in manure as far as the eye could see. From dawn till dusk under the pale September skies, carts brimming with steaming mounds of old litter would slowly make their way along the country...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The following morning, they managed to get Françoise’s body into the coffin, which was resting there, still, on two chairs in the middle of the bedroom, when Jean leapt to his feet in indignant surprise to see Lise and Buteau step in, one behind...
The Serpentine River
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

In his way to St. James’s street, where the wine merchant lived, sir Philip Baddely picked up several young men of his acquaintance, who were all eager to see a trial of taste, of epicurean taste* — between the baronet...
The Macaw
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

The baronet determined the next day upon the grand attack. He waited upon miss Portman, with the certainty of being favourably received; but he was, nevertheless, somewhat embarrassed to know how to begin the conversation, when he found himself alone with the lady.

He twirled...
Domestic Happiness
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

There was an air of benevolence and perfect sincerity in the politeness, with which lady Anne Percival received Belinda, that was peculiarly agreeable to her agitated and harassed mind.

‘I am afraid,’ said Belinda, ‘that your ladyship will think me capricious for coming to you...
A Discovery
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Instead of the open, childish, affectionate familiarity, with which Virginia used to meet Clarence Hervey, she now received him with reserved, timid embarrassment. Struck by this change in her manner, and alarmed by the dejection of her spirits, which she vainly strove to conceal,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Croyez vous m’avoir humiliée pour m’avoir appris que la terre tourne autour du soleil? Je vous jure que je ne m’en estime pas moins.”*

That lofty criticism had caused Gwendolen a new sort of pain. She...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Among the heirs of Art, as at the division of the promised land, each has to win his portion by hard fighting: the bestowal is after the manner of prophecy, and is a title without possession. To carry the map of an ungotten estate in...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

How trace the why and wherefore in a mind reduced to the barrenness of a fastidious egoism, in which all direct desires are dulled, and have dwindled from motives into a vacillating expectation of motives: a mind made up of moods, where a fitful impulse...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Now my cousins are at Diplow”, said Grandcourt, “will you go...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Were uneasiness of conscience measured by extent of crime, human history had been different, and one should look to see the contrivers of greedy wars and the mighty marauders of the money-market in one troop of self-lacerating penitents with the meaner robber and cut-purse and...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Deronda had been fastened and led off by Mr Vandernoodt, who wished...
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

After a few minutes the...
Chapter XLV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

So...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

One might be tempted to envy Deronda providing new clothes for Mordecai, and pleasing himself as if he were sketching a picture in imagining the...
Chapter LIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“The unwilling brain

Madonna Pia, whose...
The Mark of the Beast
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger?

          Native Proverb

East of Suez,* some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia,...
Chickamauga
Authors: Bierce Ambrose
Published: December 2020

One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved. It was happy in a new sense of freedom from control—happy in the opportunity of exploration and adventure; for this child’s spirit, in...
Count Magnus
Authors: James M. R.
Published: December 2020

By what means the papers out of which I have made a connected story came into my hands is the last point which the reader will learn from these pages. But it is necessary to prefix to my extracts from them a statement of...
The Derelict
Authors: Hope Hodgson William
Published: December 2020

‘It’s the Material,’ said the old ship’s doctor. … ‘The Material, plus the Conditions; and, maybe,’ he added slowly, ‘a third factor—yes, a third factor; but there, there. …’ He broke off his half-meditative sentence, and began...
III
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Arriving one morning two months later in the Rue Coq-Héron, Frédéric’s first thought was of his important visit.

Chance had been on his side. Old Roque had come, bringing a wad of papers, with a request to take them personally to Monsieur Dambreuse. And in...
VI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Ruined, robbed, done for!

He had stayed sitting on the bench, as though in shock. He cursed his fate, wished he could hit someone; and to make his despair even worse he felt a kind of insult, a disgrace weighing him down. For Frédéric...
I
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The noise of gunfire suddenly woke him; and despite Rosanette’s pleading, Frédéric wanted at all costs to go and see what was going on. He went down* the Champs-Élysées, from where the shots had come. At the corner of the Rue Saint-Honoré,...
VII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Towards the beginning of this winter Frédéric and Deslauriers were chatting by the fire, reconciled by something irresistible in their nature which always brought them together in friendship. Frédéric explained his quarrel with Madame Dambreuse, who had got married again, to an Englishman.

Deslauriers, without...
Chapter X
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

At length the dreaded week was come, when Amos and his children must leave Shepperton. There was general regret among the parishioners at his departure: not that any one of them thought his spiritual gifts pre-eminent, or was conscious of great edification from his...
Conclusion
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Only once again in his life has Amos Barton visited Milly’s grave. It was in the calm and softened light of an autumnal afternoon, and he was not alone. He held on his arm a young woman, with a sweet, grave face, which strongly...
Chapter VII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Caterina tore herself from Anthony with the desperate effort of one who has just self-recollection enough left to be conscious that the fumes of charcoal will master his senses unless he bursts a way for himself to the fresh air; but when she reached...
Chapter IV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Tryan was right in saying that the ‘row’ in Milby had been preconcerted by Dempster. The placards and the caricature were prepared before the departure of the delegates; and it had been settled that Mat Paine, Dempster’s clerk, should ride out on Thursday...
Chapter XI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Tryan’s most unfriendly observers were obliged to admit that he gave himself no rest. Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday, addresses to school-teachers, and catechizing of school-children, with pastoral visits, multiplying as...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The faces looked very hard and unmoved that surrounded Dempster’s grave, while old Mr Crewe read the burial-service in his low, broken voice. The pall-bearers were such men as Mr Pittman, Mr Lowme, and Mr Budd—men whom Dempster had called his friends...
Religion and Neurology
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very...
The Sick Soul
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

At our last meeting, we considered the healthy-minded temperament, the temperament which has a constitutional incapacity for prolonged suffering, and in which the tendency to see things optimistically is like a water of crystallization in which the individual’s character is set. We saw how...
Saintliness
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

The last lecture left us in a state of expectancy. What may the practical fruits for life have been, of such movingly happy conversions as those we heard of? With this question the really important part of our task opens, for you remember that...
Mysticism
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

Over and over again in these lectures I have raised points and left them open and unfinished until we should have come to the subject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled as you noted my reiterated postponements. But now the...
Philosophy
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true? We turned first to mysticism for an answer, and found that although mysticism is entirely willing to corroborate religion, it...
Conclusions
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

The material of our study of human nature is now spread before us; and in this parting hour, set free from the duty of description, we can draw our theoretical and practical conclusions. In my first lecture, defending the empirical method, I foretold that...
The Listeners
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When the expectant stillness consequent upon the exclamation had nearly died out of them all, an increasing light made itself visible in one of the windows of the upper floor. It came so close to the blind that the exact position of the flame...
The Tranter’s Party
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

During the afternoon unusual activity was seen to prevail about the precincts of tranter Dewy’s house. The flagstone floor was swept of dust, and a sprinkling of the finest yellow sand from the innermost stratum of the adjoining sand-pit lightly scattered thereupon. Then were...
“The Knot There’s No Untying”
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The last day of the story is dated just subsequent to that point in the development of the seasons when country people go to bed among nearly naked trees, are lulled to sleep by a fall of rain and awake next morning among green...
Street-Sellers of Stationery, Literature, and the Fine Arts
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Street-Sellers of Stationery, Literature, and the Fine Arts

We now come to a class of street-folk wholly distinct from any before treated of. As yet we have been dealing principally with the uneducated portion of the street-people—men whom, for the most part, are...
Children Street-Sellers
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Children Street-Sellers of London

Among the wares sold by the boys and girls of the streets are:—money-bags, lucifer-match boxes, leather straps, belts, firewood (common, and also ‘patent’, that is, dipped into an inflammable composition), fly-papers, a variety of fruits, especially nuts, oranges, and...
Street-Sellers of Mineral Productions and Natural Curiosities
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Street-Sellers of Coals

According to the returns of the coal market for the last few years, there has been imported into London, on an average, 3,500,000 tons of seaborne coal annually. Besides this immense supply, the various railways have lately poured in a...
Street Artists
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Street Photography

Within the last few years photographic portraits have gradually been diminishing in price, until at the present time they have become a regular article of street commerce. Those living at the west-end of London have but little idea of the number of persons...
Skilled and Unskilled Labour
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

The Doll’s-Eye Maker

A curious part of the street toy business is the sale of dolls, and especially that odd branch of it, doll’s-eye making. There are only two persons following this business in London, and by the most intelligent of these I was furnished...