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V the gascon and the italian
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile, the cardinal had returned to his cabinet, at the door of which Bernouin was watching, of whom he asked if anything had occurred, and if any news from outside had arrived. Upon his negative reply, he made a sign to him to withdraw....
IX how d’artagnan, looking for aramis far away, perceived him on the crupper behind planchet
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On entering, d’Artagnan saw a man seated by the fire; it was Planchet, but so metamorphosed, thanks to the old clothes which Madeleine’s husband had left behind, that even d’Artagnan could scarcely recognize him. Madeleine introduced him in sight of all the waiters. Planchet...
XIV in which is shown that if porthos was discontented with his lot, mousqueton was satisfied with his
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

While returning towards the château, and while Porthos was indulging in his dreams of a barony, d’Artagnan was reflecting on the misery of our poor human nature, always discontented with what it has, always wanting what it has not. In Porthos’s place...
XXV one of m. de beaufort’s forty means of escape
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The time passed alike for prisoner and for those engaged in effecting his escape, only it passed more slowly. Just the opposite of other men who ardently form a perilous resolution, and who grow cool as the time of execution draws near, the Duc...
XXVI d’artagnan’s timely arrival
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan drew out at Blois the sum of money that Mazarin, in his desire to have him near him, had decided to give him for his future services.

The journey from Blois to Paris usually took four days. D’Artagnan reached St Denis’s gate about...
XXIX four old friends preparing for a conference
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Well,’ said Porthos, seated in the courtyard of the Hêtel de la Chevrette, to d’Artagnan, who with sullen face was returning from the Palais-Cardinal—‘well, he has received you badly, d’Artagnan?’

‘Upon my honour, yes; he is certainly an ugly beast! What are you...
XXX the place royale
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

They walked on silently to the centre of the Place; but as at that moment the moon came from behind a cloud, and as they thought that at this exposed part they could easily be seen, they reached the lime trees, where the shade...
XLIV again a queen who asks aid
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos had sent a letter to Aramis early in the morning by Blaisois, his only remaining servant. He found Bazin putting on his beadle’s robe, for he was that day on duty at Notre-Dame. Athos had desired Blaisois to try and speak to Aramis...
XLVII the mendicant of st eustache
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had calculated what he was doing in not going at once to the Palais-Royal. He had given Comminges time to be there before him, and consequently to make the valuable services known to the cardinal which he (d’Artagnan) and his friend had...
LIII the flight
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Palais-Royal, in spite of the signs of agitation seen in the city, presented, when d’Artagnan returned about five o’clock, one of the most pleasing spectacles. Nor was it to be wondered at; the queen had restored Broussel and Blancmesnil to the people. The...
LVII ‘l’ecossais, parjure a sa foi, pour un denier vendit son roi’
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

And now our readers must allow the Standard to sail tranquilly, not to London, where d’Artagnan and Porthos thought they were going, but towards Durham, where some letters received from England during his stay at Boulogne had ordered Mordaunt to go, and...
LVIII the avenger
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The four entered the tent. They had no plan; one must be made. The king sank into a chair.

‘I am lost!’ he said.

‘No, Sire,’ replied Athos; ‘you are only betrayed.’

The king gave a deep sigh.

‘Betrayed, betrayed by the Scots, among whom...
LXIV d’artagnan finds a plan
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos knew d’Artagnan better perhaps than the latter knew himself. He knew that in an adventurous spirit like that of the Gascon the main thing is to let fall a thought, as letting a seed fall into a rich, vigorous soil is the only...
LXXIII the conversation
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Mordaunt had been surprised so unexpectedly, he had ascended the stairs under the influence of feelings still so confused, that his power of reflection had not been regained.

What was real was that his first feeling had been entirely the surprise and the invincible terror...
LXXV the port wine
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the end of ten minutes the masters were sleeping; but it was not so with the servants, who were hungry, and especially thirsty. Blaisois and Mousqueton were preparing their bed, which consisted of a plank and a portmanteau, while on a table fastened...
LXXXI the three lieutenants of the generalissimo
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

According to arrangement Athos and Aramis, on leaving the Charlemagne Hêtel, took their way to the mansion of M. le Due de Bouillon.* The night was very dark; and although its silent hours were close at hand, yet still were...
Chapter VI
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

s the boys scattered away from the ground, and East leaning on Tom’s arm and limping along, was beginning to consider what luxury they should go and buy for tea to celebrate...
Chapter V
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

here is a certain sort of fellow, we who are used to studying boys all know him well enough, of whom you can predicate with...
Chapter IX
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

nthe summer of 1842, our hero stopped once again at the well-known station : and,...
Chapter III
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The castle was buried in sleep when Ferdinand again joined his sisters in madame’s apartment. With anxious curiosity they followed him to the chamber. The room was hung with tapestry. Ferdinand carefully sounded the wall which communicated with the southern buildings. From one part...
Chapter V
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The night grew stormy. The hollow winds swept over the mountains, and blew bleak and cold around; the clouds were driven swiftly over the face of the moon, and the duke and his people were frequently involved in total darkness. They had travelled on...
Chapter VI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The castle of Mazzini was still the scene of dissension and misery. The impatience and astonishment of the marquis being daily increased by the lengthened absence of the duke, he dispatched servants to the forest of Marentino, to enquire the occasion of this circumstance....
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The evening now sunk in darkness, and the hour was fast approaching which would decide the fate of Julia. Trembling anxiety subdued every other sensation; and as the minutes passed, her fears increased. At length she heard the gates of the monastery fastened for...
Chapter XV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The marquis, meanwhile, whose indefatigable search after Julia failed of success, was successively the slave of alternate passions, and he poured forth the spleen of disappointment on his unhappy domestics.

The marchioness, who may now more properly be called Maria de Vellorno, inflamed, by artful...
Chapter II
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Madame
St. Aubert was interred in the neighbouring village church; her husband and daughter attended her to the grave, followed by a long train of the peasantry,...
Chapter V
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

St. Aubert, sufficiently restored by a night’s repose to pursue his journey, set out in the morning, with his family and Valancourt, for Rousillon, which he hoped...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The monk, who had before appeared, returned in the evening to offer consolation to Emily, and brought a kind message from the lady abbess,...
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Madame
Cheron’s house stood at a little distance from the city of Tholouse, and was surrounded by extensive gardens, in which Emily, who...
Chapter II
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily’s mind was refreshed by sleep. On waking in the morning, she looked with surprise on Annette, who sat sleeping in...
Chapter V
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

When Montoni was informed of the death of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The Lady Blanche was so much interested for Emily, that, upon hearing she was going to reside in...
Chapter IV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the next night, about the same hour as before, Dorothée came to Emily’s chamber, with the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The Count, who had slept little during the night, rose early, and, anxious to speak...
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Count De Villefort and Lady Blanche had passed a pleasant fortnight at...
Chapter XV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the following day, the arrival of her friend revived the drooping Emily, and La Vallée became...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

After the late discoveries, Emily was distinguished at the chateau by the Count and his family, as a relative of the house of Villeroi, and...
Chapter I My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. Ever since ours was a family (and that must be very near Adam’s time,—so old, noble, and...
Chapter III I Make A False Start in the Genteel World
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

I rode that night as far as Carlow, where I lay at the best inn; and being asked what was my name by the landlord of the house, gave it as Mr. Redmond, according to my cousin’s instructions, and said I was of the...
Chapter VII Barry Leads a Garrison Life, and Finds Many Friends There
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

After the war, our regiment was garrisoned in the capital, the least dull, perhaps, of all the towns of Prussia; but that does not say much for its gaiety. Our service, which was always severe, still left many hours of the day disengaged, in...
Chapter IX I Appear in a Manner Becoming My Name and Lineage
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Fortune, smiling at parting upon Monsieur de Balibari, enabled him to win a handsome sum with his faro bank.

At ten o’clock the next morning, the carriage of the Chevalier de Balibari drew up as usual at the door of his hotel; and the...
Chapter X More Runs of Luck
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

I am not going to entertain my readers with an account of my professional career as a gamester any more than I did with anecdotes of my life as a military man. I might fill volumes with tales of this kind were I so...
Chapter XVIII In Which My Good Fortune Begins To Waver
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

And now, if any people should be disposed to think my history immoral (for I have heard some assert that I was a man who never deserved that so much prosperity should fall to my share), I will beg those cavillers to do me...
21 How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

I awoke rejoicing, and began to reflect on the glorious career before me. I would go forth, methought, at once, and evangelize the whole of Flatland. Even to Women and Soldiers should the Gospel of Three Dimensions be proclaimed. I would begin with my...
2. Picturesque Tourism
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Thomas Gray, Journal in the Lakes (1769; from The Correspondence of Thomas Gray, vol. iii, ed. P. Toynbee and L. Whibley, Oxford, 1935)

Thomas Gray (1716–71), poet and scholar, kept a journal of his 1769 tour of the Westmorland Lakes in the form of...
2. The Cook Expeditions, 1768–1780
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

James Cook (1728–79), the son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy. Appointed lieutenant of the Endeavour, he led the first of three famous expeditions to the Pacific (1768–71). Sailing with the ostensible purpose of observing the...
Chapter IX: There is no Place like Home
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

I CAN assure you, and tell no lie (as John Fry always used to say, when telling his very largest), that I scrambled back to the mouth of that pit, as if the evil one had been after me. And sorely I repented now of...
Chapter XIV: A Motion which ends in a Mull
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

INSTEAD of minding his New-Year pudding, Master Huckaback carried on so, about his mighty grievance, that at last we began to think there must be something in it, after all; especially as he assured us, that choice and costly presents for the young people of...
Chapter XV: Quo warranto?
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ON the following day Master Huckaback, with some show of mystery, demanded from my mother an escort into a dangerous part of the world, to which his business compelled him. My mother made answer to this, that he was kindly welcome to take our John...
Chapter XVIII: Witchery leads to Witchcraft
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH well nigh the end of March, the wind blew wild and piercing, as I went on foot, that afternoon, to Mother Melldrum’s dwelling. It was safer not to take a horse, lest (if anything vexed her) she should put a spell upon him; as...
Chapter XXIV: A Safe Pass for King’s Messenger
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

A JOURNEY to London seemed to us, in those bygone days, as hazardous and dark an adventure as could be forced on any man. I mean, of course, a poor man; for to a great nobleman with ever so many outriders, attendants, and retainers, the...
Chapter XXXII: Feeding of the Pigs
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THE story told by John Fry that night, and my conviction of its truth, made me very uneasy, especially as following upon the warning of Judge Jeffreys, and the hints received from Jeremy Stickles, and the outburst of the tanner at Dunster, as well as...
Chapter XXXIII: An Early Morning Call
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

OF course I was up the very next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland towards the Bagworthy water, at the foot of the long cascade. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of...
Chapter XLI: Cold Comfort
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALL things being full of flaw, all things being full of holes, the strength of all things is in shortness. If Sir Ensor Doone had dwelled for half an hour upon himself, and an hour perhaps upon Lorna and me, we must both have wearied...
Chapter L: A Merry Meeting a Sad One
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW the business I had most at heart (as every one knows by this time) was to marry Lorna as soon as might be, if she had no objection, and then to work the farm so well, as to nourish all our family. And herein...
Chapter LXXIII: How to get out of Chancery
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THINGS at this time so befell me, that I cannot tell one half; but am like a boy who has left his lesson (to the master’s very footfall) unready, except with false excuses. And as this makes no good work, so I lament upon my...
Chapter XXIX The Senator’s Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

SOON after this Senator Gotobed went down, alone, to Dillsborough and put himself up at the Bush Inn. Although he had by no means the reputation of being a rich man, he did not seem to care much what money he spent...
Chapter XLVI It Cannot be Arranged
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Reginald Morton received his aunt’s letter he understood from it more than she had intended. Of course, the man to whom allusion was made was Mr. Twentyman; and, of course, the discomfort at home had come from Mrs. Masters’ approval of that suitor’s...
Chapter XLVII ‘But There is Some One’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Mr. Masters had gone across to the Bush, his purpose had certainly been ignoble, but it had had no reference to brandy and water. And the allusion made by Mrs. Masters to the probable ruin which was to come from his tendencies in...
Chapter LVI ‘Now What Have You Got to Say?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

IT may be a question whether Lord Augustus Trefoil or Lord Rufford looked forward to the interview which was to take place at the duke’s mansion with the greater dismay. The unfortunate father whose only principle in life had been that of avoiding trouble...
Chapter LXV The New Minister
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘POOR old Paragon!’ exclaimed Archibald Currie, as he stood with his back to the fire among his colleagues at the Foreign Office on the day after John Morton’s death.

‘Poor young Paragon! that’s the pity of it,’ said Mounser Green. ‘I don’t suppose...
Chapter LXVII In The Park
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THIS thing that she was doing required an infinite amount of pluck,—of that sort of hardihood which we may not quite call courage, but which in a world well provided with policemen is infinitely more useful than courage. Lord Rufford himself was endowed with...
Chapter LXXI ‘My Own, Own Husband’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

YES;—it had come at last. As one may imagine to be the certainty of Paradise to the doubting, fearful, all but despairing soul when it has passed through the gates of death, and found in new worlds a reality of assured bliss, so was...
Chapter LXXVI The Wedding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

NO sooner did the two new lovers, Mounser Green and Arabella Trefoil, understand each other than they set their wits to work to make the best of their natural advantages. The latter communicated the fact, in a very dry manner, to her father and...
Chapter III: Cousin Henry
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Cousin Henry found his position to be difficult and precarious. That suggestion of his uncle’s, —or rather assertion, —that he could still change his mind was disagreeable. No doubt he could do so, and, as Cousin Henry thought, would be the very man to...
Chapter VIII: The Reading of the Will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the whole of the next day the search was continued. In spite of his late watches, Cousin Henry rose up early, not looking at anything that was being done while the search was continued in other rooms, but still sitting, as he had...
Chapter IX: Alone at Llanfeare
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the day after the reading of the will, Henry Indefer Jones, Esq., of Llanfeare, as he was now to be called, was left alone in his house, his cousin Isabel having taken her departure from the place in the manner proposed
Chapter XV: Cousin Henry Makes Another Attempt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Apjohn had gone, Cousin Henry sat for an hour, not thinking, —men so afflicted have generally lost the power to think, —but paralysed by the weight of his sorrow, simply repeating to himself assertions that said no man had ever been used...
Chapter XXI: Mr. Apjohn’s Success
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early on the Wednesday morning Mr. Apjohn and Mr. Brodrick were on foot, and preparing for the performance of their very disagreeable day’s work. Mr. Brodrick did not believe at all in the day’s work, and in discussing the matter with Mr. Apjohn, after...
Chapter IV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Old Thomas Thwaite was at this time up in London about the business of the Countess, but had no intention of residing there. He still kept his shop in Keswick, and still made coats and trousers for Cumberland statesmen.* He was by...
Chapter V
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Flick returned from Sicily he was very strongly in favour of some compromise. He had seen the so-called Italian Countess,—who certainly was now called Contessa by everybody around her,—and he did not believe that she had ever been married to the old...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the next morning the poor injured one was quite well,—but she was still held to be subject to piteous concern. The two aunts shook their heads when she said that she would walk down to the stepping-stones that morning, before starting for Yoxham;...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In absolute silence Lord Lovel and Lady Anna walked back to the inn. He had been dumb-foundered,—nearly so by her first abrupt statement, and then altogether by the arguments with which she had defended herself. She had nothing further to say. She had, indeed,...
Chapter VI. Preparations for Mrs. Tappitt’s Party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I am disposed to think that Mrs. Butler Cornbury did Mrs. Tappitt an injury when she with so much ready good-nature accepted the invitation for the party, and that Mrs. Tappitt was aware of this before the night of the party arrived. She...
Chapter XV. Maternal Eloquence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Friday morning there was a solemn conference at the brewery between Mrs. Tappitt and Mrs. Rowan. Mrs. Rowan found herself to be in some difficulty as to the line of action which she ought to take, and the alliances which she ought...
Pearl
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

We Have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion. How strange it seemed to the sad...
Hester and the Physician
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small...
The Minister in a Maze
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

As The minister departed, in advance of Hester Prynne and little Pearl, he threw a backward glance; half expecting that he should discover only some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly fading into the twilight of the woods....
Chapter XI
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

How George, once upon a time, got up early in the morning—George, Harris, and Montmorency do not like the look of the cold water—Heroism and determination on the part of J.—George and his shirt: story with a moral—...
Chapter XII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Disadvantages of living in same house with pair of lovers—A trying time for the English nation—A night search for the picturesque—Homeless and houseless—Harris prepares to die—An angel comes along...
Chapter XV
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Household duties—Love of work—The old river hand, what he does and what he tells you he has done—Scepticism of the new generation—Early boating recollections—Rafting—George does the thing in style—The old boatman,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Why we went to Hanover—Something they do better abroad—The art of polite foreign conversation, as taught in English schools—A true history, now told for the first time—The French joke, as provided for the amusement of British youth...
Dr Hesselius Picks up Something in Latin Books
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Well, I have called at Blank Street.

On inquiring at the door, the servant told me that Mr Jennings was engaged very particularly with a gentleman, a clergyman from Kenlis, his parish in the country. Intending to reserve my privilege and to call again, I...
Four Eyes Were Reading The Passage
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I was running the head of my pencil-case along the line as I read it, and something caused me to raise my eyes.

Directly before me was one of the mirrors I have mentioned, in which I saw reflected the tall shape of my friend...
The Third Stage
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘I see, Dr Hesselius, that you don’t lose one word of my statement. I need not ask you to listen specially to what I am now going to tell you. They talk of the optic nerves, and of spectral illusions, as if the organ of...
Prologue
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Out of about two hundred and thirty cases, more or less nearly akin to that I have entitled ‘Green Tea,’ I select the following, which I call ‘The Familiar’.

To this MS Doctor Hesselius, has, after his wont, attached some sheets of letter-paper, on which...
He Talks With a Clergyman
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Mr Barton, although he had latterly begun to earn for himself the character of an hypochondriac, was yet very far from deserving it. Though by no means lively, he had yet, naturally, what are termed ‘even spirits’, and was not subject to undue depressions.

He...
Mr Barton States His Case
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘My dear sir,’ said Doctor——, after a brief pause, ‘I fear you have been very unhappy, indeed; but I venture to predict that the depression under which you labour will be found to originate in purely physical causes, and that with a change of air,...
Prologue
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

On this case, Doctor Hesselius has inscribed nothing more than the words, ‘Harman’s Report’, and a simple reference to his own extraordinary Essay on ‘the Interior Sense, and the Conditions of the opening thereof’.

The reference is to Vol. I. Section 317, Note Za...
Death And Love Together Mated
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

When the day drags, when a man is solitary, and in a fever of impatience and suspense; when the minute-hand of his watch travels as slowly as the hour-hand used to do, and the hour- hand has lost all appreciable motion; when he yawns, and...
The Park Of The Chateau De La Carque
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

There was no danger of the Dragon Volant’s closing its doors on that occasion till three or four in the morning. There were quartered there many servants of great people, whose masters would not leave the ball till the last moment, and who could not...
Bereaved
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

It was about ten months since we had last seen him; but that time had sufficed to make an alteration of years in his appearance. He had grown thinner; something of gloom and anxiety had taken the place of that cordial serenity which used to...
The Wood-Man
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘There soon, however, appeared some drawbacks. In the first place, Millarca complained of extreme languor—the weakness that remained after her late illness—and she never emerged from her room till the afternoon was pretty far advanced. In the next place, it was accidentally discovered, although she...
The Meeting
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘My beloved child,’ he resumed, ‘was now growing rapidly worse. The physician who attended her had failed to produce the slightest impression upon her disease, for such I then supposed it to be. He saw my alarm, and suggested a consultation. I called...
AGRARIA N JUSTICE, OPPOSED TO AGRARIAN LAW, AND TO AGRARIAN MONOPOLY. being a plan for meliorating the condition of man, &c.
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

To preserve the benefits of what is called civilized life, and to remedy, at the same time, the evil it has produced, ought to be considered as one of the first objects of reformed legislation.

Whether that state that is proudly, perhaps erroneouly, called civilization,...
Chapter 1 Shadows from Child-life
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

The Watch

The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’* bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the...
Chapter X He sees a Ghost
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Doss sat among the karroo bushes, one yellow ear drawn over his wicked little eye, ready to flap away any adventurous fly that might settle on his nose. Around him in the morning sunlight fed the sheep; behind him lay his master polishing his machine....
Chapter XI He Snaps
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘I have found something in the loft,’ said Em to Waldo, who was listlessly piling cakes of fuel on the kraal wall, a week after. ‘It is a box of books that belonged to my father. We thought Tant’ Sannie had burnt them.’

The boy...
Chapter V Tant’ Sannie holds an Upsitting,and Gregory writes a Letter
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

It was just after sunset, and Lyndall had not yet returned from her first driving-lesson, when the lean coloured woman standing at the corner of the house to enjoy the evening breeze, saw coming along the road a strange horseman. Very narrowly she surveyed...
Chapter VIII The Kopje
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘Good morning!’

Em, who was in the store-room measuring the Kaffirs’ rations, looked up and saw her former lover standing betwixt her and the sunshine. For some days after that evening on which he had ridden home whistling he had shunned her. She might wish...
In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new...
Select Incident of Lawful Trade
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“In Ramah there was a voice heard,—weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted.”*

Mr. Haley and Tom jogged onward in their wagon, each, for a time, absorbed in his own reflections. Now, the reflections of two...
Of Tom’s New Master, And Various Other Matters
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Since the thread of our humble hero’s life has now become interwoven with that of higher ones, it is necessary to give some brief introduction to them.

Augustine St. Clare was the son of a wealthy planter of Louisiana. The family had its origin in...
“The Grass Withereth—The Flower Fadeth”
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Life passes, with us all, a day at a time; so it passed with our friend Tom, till two years were gone. Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though often yearning for what lay beyond, still was he never positively and consciously...
Death
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb,

In life’s early morning, hath hid from our eyes.*

Eva’s bed-room was a spacious apartment, which, like all the other rooms in the house, opened on to the broad verandah. The room communicated, on...
The Middle Passage
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?”

—Hab. 1:13.

On the...
The Stratagem
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“The way of the wicked is as darkness; he knoweth not at what he stumbleth.”*

The garret of the house that Legree occupied, like most other garrets, was a great, desolate space, dusty, hung with cobwebs, and littered with cast-off lumber. The opulent family...
Results
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The rest of our story is soon told. George Shelby, interested, as any other young man might be, by the romance of the incident, no less than by feelings of humanity, was at the pains to send to Cassy the bill of sale of Eliza;...
The Liberator
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

George Shelby had written to his mother merely a line, stating the day that she might expect him home. Of the death scene of his old friend he had not the heart to write. He had tried several times, and only succeeded in half choking...
Former Inhabitants; And Winter Visitors
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

I weathered some merry snow storms, and spent some cheerful winter evenings by my fire-side, while the snow whirled wildly without, and even the hooting of the owl was hushed. For many weeks I met no one in my walks but those who came...
Winter Animals
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

When the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them. When I crossed Flints’ Pond,* after it was covered with snow, though I...
Spring
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice. But such was not the effect on Walden that year, for she...
2
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

This study was a real museum. Specimens of the whole mineral order could be found here, labelled with the most perfect care, following the three great divisions into inflammable, metallic, and lithoidal minerals.

How well I knew them, these trinkets of mineralogical science; how many...
3
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

‘It’s quite obviously runic,’ said the professor, knitting his brows. ‘But there is a secret and I am going to discover it. If not…’

A violent gesture completed his thought.

‘Sit down’, he added, indicating the table with his fist, ‘and write.’

In a...
9
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The time came when we were due to leave. The day before, the obliging Mr Thomson had brought the warmest letters of recommendation for Count Trampe, the Governor of Iceland, Mr Pictursson, the Bishop’s Coadjutor, and Mr Finsen, the Mayor of Reykjavik. In return...
14
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Stapi is a settlement of about thirty shacks, built on the lava itself and under the rays of the sun reflected from the volcano. It lies at the end of a little fjord which forms part of a basalt wall of a most curious...
20
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Rationing was indeed essential. We didn’t have enough water left for more than three days, as I found out that evening at dinner-time. Nor could we have much hope of coming across an open spring in the ground of the Transition Era—a dismal perspective....

The...
23
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

For an hour, my delirious brain ran through all the conceivable reasons that could have made the calm hunter act in this way. The most absurd ideas intersected in my head. I thought I was about to go mad!

But finally the sound of feet...
28
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

When I came back to life, my face was wet with tears. How long this state of unconsciousness had lasted, I cannot say. I no longer had any way of keeping track of time. Never had there been loneliness like mine, never such complete...
32
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

On 13 August we woke up early. We were now going to inaugurate this new sort of transport, fast and not too tiring.

A mast, made of two pieces of wood fastened together, a yard made from another, and a sail borrowed from our blankets...
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Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Wednesday, 19 August. Fortunately the wind, blowing with force, has allowed us to flee the scene of the struggle. Hans is still at the helm. My uncle, drawn from his absorbing ideas by the incidents of the battle, now retreats again into his...
Playing Pilgrims
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

‘It’s so dreadful to be poor!’ sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

‘I don’t think it’s fair for some girls to have lots of pretty things, and other girls nothing...
Burdens
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Oh dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs* and go on,’ sighed Meg, the morning after the party; for now the holidays were over, the week of merry-making did not fit her for going on easily with the task...
Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr Laurence was the biggest one; but, after he had called, said something funny or kind...
Amy’S Valley of Humiliation
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘That boy is a perfect Cyclops,* isn’t he?’ said Amy, one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

‘How dare you say so, when he’s got both his eyes? and very handsome ones they are,...
Camp Laurence
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Beth was post-mistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it regularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door and distributing the mail. One July day she came in with her hands full, and went about the house leaving...
15 A Telegram
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,’ said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frost-bitten garden.

‘That’s the reason I was born in it,’ observed Jo, pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

‘If...
16 Letters
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp, and read their chapter with an earnestness never felt before, for now the shadow of a real trouble had come, showing them how rich in sunshine their lives had been. The little books were full...
23 Aunt March Settles the Question
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Like bees swarming after their queen, mother and daughters hovered about Mr March the next day, neglecting everything to look at, wait upon, and listen to, the new invalid, who was in a fair way to be killed by kindness. As he sat propped up...
26 Artistic Attempts
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation; for, mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity. For a long...
29 Calls
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Come, Jo, it’s time.’

‘For what?’

‘You don’t mean to say you have forgotten that you promised to make half a dozen calls with me to-day?’

‘I’ve done a good many rash and foolish things in my life, but I don’t think I ever was...
30 Consequences
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Mrs Chester’s fair was so very elegant and select, that it was considered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be invited to take a table, and every one was much interested in the matter. Amy was asked, but Jo was...
32 Tender Troubles
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Jo, I’m anxious about Beth.’

‘Why, mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.’

‘It’s not her health that troubles me now; it’s her spirits. I’m sure there is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is.’

‘What...
39 Lazy Laurence
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month. He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy’s familiar presence seemed to give a home-like charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a part. He rather missed the ‘muching’...
45 Daisy And Demi
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family, without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious and important members of it. Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion; for in this...
Chapter II The Man Revealed
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first cool breathings of the coming dawn fluttered through the open window as Mr. Brock read the closing lines of the Confession. He put it from him in silence, without looking up. The first shock of discovery had struck his mind, and had...
Chapter II Allan as a Landed Gentleman
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Early on the morning after his first night’s rest at Thorpe-Ambrose, Allan rose and surveyed the prospect from his bedroom window, lost in the dense mental bewilderment of feeling himself to be a stranger in his own house.

The bedroom looked out over the great...
Chapter III The Purple Flask
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The cab was waiting at the gates as Miss Gwilt approached the Sanatorium. Mr. Bashwood got out and advanced to meet her. She took his arm and led him aside a few steps, out of the cabman’s hearing.

‘Think what you like of me,’ she...
Chapter IX The Defeat of the Major
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Major Fitz-David’S visitor proved to be a plump, round-eyed, over-dressed girl, with a florid complexion and straw-coloured hair. After first fixing on me a broad stare of astonishment, she pointedly addressed her apologies for intruding on us to the Major alone. The creature evidently...
Chapter XIII The Man’s Decision
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My first impulse was the reckless impulse to follow Eustace—openly, through the streets.

The Major and Benjamin both opposed this hasty resolution on my part. They appealed to my own sense of self-respect, without (so far as I remember it) producing the slightest effect on...
Chapter XXXII A Specimen of my Wisdom
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The scene must follow my erratic movements—the scene must close on London for a while, and open in Edinburgh.

Two days had passed since Major Fitz-David’s dinner-party. I was able to breathe again freely, after the utter destruction of all my plans for the future,...
Chapter XLIII At Last!
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My letter from Mr Playmore, enclosing the agent’s extraordinary telegram, was not inspired by the sanguine view of our prospects which he had expressed to me when we met at Benjamin’s house.

‘If the telegram means anything,’ he wrote, ‘it means that the fragments of...
Chapter XLIX Past and Future
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I write from memory, unassisted by notes or diaries; and I have no distinct recollection of the length of our residence abroad. It certainly extended over a period of some months. Long after Eustace was strong enough to take the journey to London, the...
Chapter IV The Two
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

He advanced a few steps, and stopped. Absorbed in herself, Anne failed to hear him. She never moved.

‘I have come, as you made a point of it,’ he said, sullenly. ‘But, mind you, it isn’t safe.’

At the sound of his voice, Anne turned...
Chapter VIII The Scandal
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was still early in the afternoon, when the guests at Lady Lundie’s lawn-party, began to compare notes together in corners, and to agree in arriving at a general conviction that ‘something was wrong’.

Blanche had mysteriously disappeared from her partners in the dance. Lady...
Chapter XI Sir Patrick
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The doubt was practically decided, before Anne had determined what to do. She was still at the window—when the sitting-room door was thrown open, and Sir Patrick appeared, obsequiously shown in by Mr Bishopriggs.

‘Ye’re kindly welcome, Sir Patrick. Hech, sirs, the sight of you...
Chapter XIII Blanche
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mrs Inchbare was the first person who acted in the emergency. She called for lights; and sternly rebuked the chambermaid, who brought them, for not having closed the house-door. ‘Ye feckless ne’er-do-weel!’ cried the landlady, ‘the wind’s blawn the candles oot.’

The woman declared (with...
Chapter XV Geoffrey in the Marriage Market
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The interval of eight-and-forty hours passed—without the occurrence of any personal communication between the two brothers in that time.

Julius, remaining at his father’s house, sent brief written bulletins of Lord Holchester’s health to his brother at the hotel. The first bulletin said, ‘Going on...
Chapter XVIII Nearer Still
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Blanche stepped lightly into the room, through one of the open French windows.

‘What are you doing here?’ she said to Arnold.

‘Nothing. I was just going to look for you in the garden.’

‘The garden is insufferable, this morning.’ Saying those words, she fanned...
Chapter XXIV Gone
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Blanche came in, with a glass of wine in her hand—and saw the swooning woman on the floor.

She was alarmed, but not surprised, as she knelt by Anne, and raised her head. Her own previous observation of her friend, necessarily prevented her from being...
Chapter XXIX Forwards
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Blanche found her lover as attentive as usual to her slightest wish, but not in his customary good spirits. He pleaded fatigue, after his long watch at the cross-roads, as an excuse for his depression. As long as there was any hope...
Chapter XXXII Stifled
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It is the nature of Truth to struggle to the light. In more than one direction, the truth strove to pierce the overlying darkness, and to reveal itself to view, during the interval between the date of Sir Patrick’s victory and the date of...
Chapter XXXV Seeds of the Future (first Sowing)
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Not so large as Windygates. But—shall we say snug, Jones?’

‘And comfortable, Smith. I quite agree with you.’

Such was the judgement pronounced by the two choral gentlemen on Julius Delamayn’s house in Scotland. It was as usual with Smith and Jones, a sound...
Chapter XXXVI Seeds of the Future (second Sowing)
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

And what did the visitors say of the Swans? They said, ‘Oh, what a number of them!’—which was all that was to be said, by persons ignorant of the natural history of aquatic birds.

And what did the visitors say of the lake?

Some of...
Chapter XL The Truth at Last
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Two days after the marriage—on Wednesday the ninth of September—a packet of letters, received at Windygates, was forwarded by Lady Lundie’s steward to Ham Farm.

With one exception, the letters were all addressed either to Sir Patrick or to his sister-in-law. The one...