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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
Authors: Finan Frederico , Mazzocco Maurizio
Published: December 2020

Politicians allocate public resources in ways that maximize political gains, and potentially at the cost of lower welfare. In this paper, we quantify these welfare costs in the context of Brazil’s federal legislature, which grants its members a budget to fund public projects within their states. Using data from the state of Roraima, we estimate a model of politicians’ allocation decisions and find that 26.8% of the public funds allocated by legislators are distorted relative to a social planner’s allocation. We then use the model to simulate three potential policy reforms to the electoral system: the adoption of approval voting, imposing a one-term limit, and redistricting. We find that a one-term limit and redistricting are both effective at reducing distortions. The one-term limit policy, however, increases corruption, which makes it a welfare-reducing policy.
A Newly Discovered Fragment of William Caxton's Ordinale
Authors: Delbecque Erika
Published: December 2020

This note discusses the find of a hitherto unknown leaf from William Caxton's Ordinale seu Pica ad usum Sarum at the University of Reading Special Collections Service. It provides a bibliographical analysis of the leaf and explores its provenance. It concludes with a semi-diplomatic transcription, with reference to BL Add. MS 25456, the only known surviving manuscript copy of the text.
Prognostic validation and clinical implications of the EANO ESMO classification of leptomeningeal metastasis from solid tumors
Authors: Le Rhun Emilie , Devos Patrick , Weller Johannes , Seystahl Katharina , Mo Francesca , Compter Annette , Berghoff Anna S , Jongen Joost L M , Wolpert Fabian , Rudà Roberta , Brandsma Dieta , van den Bent Martin , Preusser Matthias , Herrlinger Ulrich , Weller Michael
Published: December 2020

Background

The EANO ESMO guidelines have proposed a classification of leptomeningeal metastases (LM) from solid cancers based on clinical, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology presentation. MRI patterns are classified as linear, nodular, both, or neither. Type I LM is defined by positive CSF cytology (confirmed LM) whereas type II LM is defined by typical clinical and MRI signs (probable or possible LM). Here we explored the clinical utility of these LM subtypes.

Patients and methods

We retrospectively assembled data from 254 patients with newly diagnosed LM from solid tumors. Survival curves were derived using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared by Log-rank test.

Results

Median age at LM diagnosis was 56 years. Typical clinical LM features were noted in 225 patients (89%); 13 patients (5%) were clinically asymptomatic. Tumor cells in the CSF were observed in 186 patients (73%) whereas the CSF was equivocal in 24 patients (9.5%) and negative in 44 patients (17.5%). Patients with confirmed LM had inferior outcome compared with patients with probable or possible LM (P = 0.006). Type I patients had inferior outcome than type II patients (P = 0.002). Nodular disease on MRI was a negative prognostic factor in type II LM (P = 0.014), but not in type I LM. On multivariate analysis, administration of either intrathecal pharmacotherapy (P = 0.012) or systemic pharmacotherapy (P = 0.0003) was associated with improved outcome in type I LM, but not in type II LM.

Conclusion

The EANO ESMO LM subtypes are highly prognostic and should be considered for stratification and overall design of clinical trials.
Micronutrient gaps during the complementary feeding period in 6 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa: a Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment
Authors: White Jessica M , Beal Ty , Arsenault Joanne E , Okronipa Harriet , Hinnouho Guy-Marino , Chimanya Kudakwashe , Matji Joan , Garg Aashima
Published: December 2020

Insufficient quantity and inadequate quality of foods in early life are key causes of all forms of malnutrition. Identification of nutrient and dietary gaps in the diets of infants and young children is essential to inform policies and programs designed to improve child diets. A Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment was used to assess the public health significance of nutrient gaps during the complementary feeding period and to identify evidence gaps in 6 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Important gaps were identified in iron, vitamin A, zinc, and calcium and, to a lesser extent, vitamin B12 and folate. The best whole-food sources of these micronutrients available in part or all of the countries studied include beef liver, chicken liver, small dried fish, beef, and eggs. Investment is needed in many countries to collect data on micronutrient biomarkers and dietary intake. Strategic actions to improve child diets will require engagement and intervention across relevant systems to accelerate progress on improving the diets of infants and young children.
Parnassus and Plynlimmon
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

96. I have allowed, in the last chapter, my record of boyish achievements and experiments in art to run on to a date much in advance of the early years which were most seriously eventful for me in good and evil. I resume...
Schaffhausen and Milan
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

119. The visit to the field of Waterloo, spoken of by chance in last chapter, must have been when I was five years old,—on the occasion of papa and mamma’s taking a fancy to see Paris in its festivities following the coronation of...
Christ Church Choir
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

215. Alone, by the fireside of the little back room, which looked into the narrow lane, chiefly then of stabling, I sate collecting my resolution for college life.

I had not much to collect; nor, so far as I knew, much to collect it...
The Simplon
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

83. More and more deeply every hour, in retracing Alpine paths,—by my fireside,—the wonder grows on me, what Heaven made the Alps for, and gave the chamois its foot, and the gentian its blue,—yet gave no one the heart to love them. And...
The State of Denmark
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

149. The house on Denmark Hill, where my father and mother, in the shortening days of 1845, thankfully received back their truant, has been associated, by dated notepaper, with a quarter of a century of my English life; and was indeed to my...
Mont Velan
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

24. I was crowded for room at the end of last chapter, and could not give account of one or two bits of investigation of the Vaudois character, which preceded the Queen of Sheba crash. It wasn’t the Queen herself,—by the way,—but only...
L’Esterelle
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

47. The meeting at St Martin’s with Norton and his family was a very happy one. Entirely sensible and amiable, all of them; with the farther elasticity and acuteness of the American intellect, and...
THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES Of the Famous Moll Flanders, & c.
Authors: Defoe Daniel
Published: December 2020

My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily,* and there are some things of such Consequence still depending* there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it...
Chapter I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In the matter of Jezebel’s Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year.

They were both men of some importance in their way, and both strangers to each other.

Mr...
Chapter II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At the end of the week we found the widow waiting to receive us.

To describe her personally, she was a little lady, with a remarkably pretty figure, a clear pale complexion, a broad low forehead, and large, steady, brightly-intelligent grey eyes. Having married a...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The breakfast-room proved to be empty when I entered it the next morning. It was the first time in my experience that I had failed to find Mr Keller established at the table. He had hitherto set the example of early rising...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Almost instantaneously Madame Fontaine recovered her self-control.

‘I really couldn’t help feeling startled,’ she said, explaining herself to Fritz and to me. ‘The last time I saw this man, he was employed in a menial capacity at the University of Würzburg. He left us one...
Chapter VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mrs Wagner was still hard at work at her desk, when Jack Straw made his appearance again in the private office.

‘Where have you been all this time?’ she asked. ‘And what have you done with your new gloves?’

‘I threw them at Madame Fontaine,’...
VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I had not forgotten the clasped book that she had tried vainly to open, in Doctor Dormann’s presence. Taking it myself from under the pillow, I left Mr Keller and the doctor to say if I should give it, unopened, to Minna.

‘Certainly not!’...
Chapter I
Authors: Walpole Horace
Published: December 2020

Manfred, prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his...
History of Don Raymond, Marquis de las Cisternas
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

Long experience, my dear Lorenzo, has convinced me, how generous is your nature: I waited not for your declaration of ignorance respecting your Sister’s adventures, to suppose that they had been purposely concealed from you. Had they reached your knowledge, from what misfortunes should both...
Chapter III
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

While in each other’s arms entranced They lay,

They blessed the night, and curst the coming day.*

Lee.

The burst of transport was past: Ambrosio’s lust was satisfied; Pleasure fled, and Shame usurped her seat in his bosom. Confused and terrified at his...
Marie Melmotte Hears a Love Tale
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning there came a telegram from Felix. He was to be expected at Beccles on that afternoon by a certain train;* and Roger, at Lady Carbury’s request, undertook to send a carriage to the station for him. This was...
Everybody Goes to Them
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the Melmottes went from Caversham the house was very desolate. The task of entertaining these people was indeed over, and had the return to London been fixed for a certain near day, there would have been comfort at any rate among the ladies...
‘Yes;—I’m a Baronet’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

How eager Lady Carbury was that her son should at once go in form to Marie’s father and make his proposition may be easily understood. ‘My dear Felix,’ she said, standing over his bedside a little before noon, ‘pray don’t put it...
Mr Broune’s Perils
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Carbury had allowed herself two days for answering Mr Broune’s proposition. It was made on Tuesday night and she was bound by her promise to send a reply some time on Thursday. But early on the Wednesday morning she had made up her...
All Prepared
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During all these days Miss Melmotte was by no means contented with her lover’s prowess, though she would not allow herself to doubt his sincerity. She had not only assured him of her undying affection in the presence of her father and mother, had...
The Coming Election
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The very greatness of Mr Melmotte’s popularity, the extent of the admiration which was accorded by the public at large to his commercial enterprise and financial sagacity, created a peculiar bitterness in the opposition that was organized against him at Westminster. As...
Father Barham Visits London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was considered to be a great thing to catch the Roman Catholic vote in Westminster.* For many years it has been considered a great thing both in the House and out of the House to ‘catch’ Roman Catholic votes. There are...
Mr Squercum Is Employed
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

While these things were being done in Bruton Street and Grosvenor Square horrid rumours were prevailing in the City and spreading from the City west-wards to the House of Commons, which was sitting this Monday afternoon with a prospect of an adjournment at seven...
The Election
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Alf’s central committee-room was in Great George Street, and there the battle was kept alive all the day. It had been decided, as the reader has been told, that no direct advantage should be taken of that loud blast of accusation which had...
Marie’s Fortune
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Marie Melmotte assured Sir Felix Carbury that her father had already endowed her with a large fortune which could not be taken from her without her own consent, she spoke no more than the truth. She knew of the matter almost as little...
Breakfast in Berkeley Square
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Nidderdale was greatly disgusted with his own part of the performance when he left the House of Commons, and was, we may say, disgusted with his own position generally, when he considered all its circumstances. That had been at the commencement of the...
The Rivals
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During these days the intercourse between Lady Carbury and her daughter was constrained and far from pleasant. Hetta, thinking that she was ill-used, kept herself aloof, and would not speak to her mother of herself or of her troubles. Lady Carbury watching her, but...
Chapter IV: Tom Is Expected
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It Was a heavy disappointment to Maggie that she was not allowed to go with her father in the gig when he went to fetch Tom home from the academy; but the morning was too wet, Mrs Tulliver said, for a little girl to...
Chapter V: The Cloven Tree
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme our fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible dramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities against them; and during a year that Maggie had had the burthen...
Chapter VIII: Wakem in a New Light
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Before three days had passed after the conversation you have just overheard between Lucy and her father, she had contrived to have a private interview with Philip during a visit of Maggie’s to her aunt GleGg. For a day and a night...
Chapter X: The Spell Seems Broken
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The suite of rooms opening into each other at Park House looked duly brilliant with lights and flowers and the personal splendours of sixteen couples, with attendant parents and guardians. The focus of brilliancy was the long drawing-room, where the dancing went forward, under...
Chapter I: The Return to the Mill
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Between four and five o’clock on the afternoon of the fifth day from that on which Stephen and Maggie had left St Ogg’s, Tom Tulliver was standing on the gravel-walk outside the old house at Dorlcote Mill. He was master there now: he had...
Chapter II: St Ogg’s Passes Judgment
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It Was soon known throughout St Ogg’s that Miss Tulliver was come back: she had not, then, eloped in order to be married to Mr Stephen Guest—at all events, Mr Stephen Guest had not married her—which came to the same thing, so far as...
Conclusion
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Nature repairs her ravages—repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labour. The desolation wrought by that flood, had left little visible trace on the face of the earth, five years after. The fifth autumn was rich in golden corn-stacks, rising in thick clusters...
Chapter VII
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Just like last time, the door opened a tiny crack, and once again there were two sharp, suspicious eyes peering at him out of the darkness. At this point Raskolnikov lost his head and almost committed a major error.

Fearing that the old woman would...
Chapter III
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But in fact he wasn’t completely unconscious throughout his illness. He was running a high fever, half-comatose and delirious; but later on he remembered a great deal. Sometimes it seemed to him that crowds of people had gathered round him and wanted to seize...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Zosimov was tall and plump, with a pale, colourless, puffy face, clean-shaven, with straight straw-coloured hair and spectacles, and wearing a large gold ring on one tubby finger. He was twenty-seven. He wore a modish loose lightweight overcoat, pale summer trousers, and in fact...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

At that moment the door quietly opened and a young girl entered the room, looking timidly about her. Surprised and intrigued, everyone turned towards her. Raskolnikov didn’t recognize her at once. It was Sofia Semionovna Marmeladova. He had seen her for the first time...
Chapter II
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was almost eight by now, and both of them were hurrying to Bakaleyev’s so as to get there before Luzhin.

‘So who was that, then?’ asked Razumikhin as soon as they got outside.

‘That was Svidrigailov, that landowner. My sister worked as a governess...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘You may know—in fact I told you myself—’, began Svidrigailov, ‘that I was in the debtors’ prison* here, for an enormous debt which I hadn’t the faintest chance of paying. There’s no point going into detail about how Marfa Petrovna bought...
Chapter II
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

He had been ill for a long time. But it wasn’t the horrors of prison life, the hard labour, the food, his shaved head,* or the rags he wore that had broken his spirit. Oh, what did he care about all those...
Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed.I Childhood
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to...
XVIII. Months of Peril
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

The search for me was kept up with more perseverence than I had anticipated. I began to think that escape was impossible. I was in great anxiety lest I should implicate the friend who harbored me. I knew the consequences would be...
XXIII. Still in Prison
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

When spring returned, and I took in the little patch of green the aperture commanded, I asked myself how many more summers and winters I must be condemned to spend thus. I longed to draw in a plentiful draught of fresh air, to stretch...
XXIV. The Candidate for Congress
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

The summer had nearly ended, when Dr. Flint made a third visit to New York, in search of me. Two candidates were running for Congress, and he returned in season to vote. The father of my children was the Whig candidate.* The...
XXXI. Incidents in Philadelphia
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Had heard that the poor slave had many friends at the north. I trusted we should find some of them. Meantime, we would take it for granted that all were friends, till they proved to the contrary. I sought out the kind...
XXXVIII. Renewed Invitation to go South
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

We had a tedious winter passage, and from the distance spectres seemed to rise up on the shores of the United States. It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one’s native country. We arrived in New York safely, and I hastened to...
Chapter III Education
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer, (which is quite the same thing) by the air of London. As soon, therefore, as official duties, attendance on parliament, or...
Chapter XIII A more rational Day than the last
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Baron of Bradwardine, mounted on an active and well-managed horse, and seated on a demi-pique saddle, with deep housings to agree with his livery, was no bad representation of the old school. His light-coloured embroidered coat, and superbly barred waistcoat, his brigadier wig,...
Chapter XVIII Waverley proceeds on his Journey
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When Edward had collected his scattered recollection, he was surprised to observe the cavern totally deserted. Having arisen and put his dress in some order, he looked more accurately around him, but all was still solitary. If it had not been for the decayed...
Chapter XXII Highland Minstrelsy
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When the first salutations had passed, Fergus said to his sister, “My dear Flora, before I return to the barbarous ritual of our forefathers, I must tell you that Captain Waverley is a worshipper of the Celtic muse, not the less so perhaps that...
Chapter III An Eclaircissement
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The hint which the Chieftain had thrown out respecting Flora was not unpremeditated. He had observed with great satisfaction the growing attachment of Waverley to his sister, nor did he see any bar to their union, excepting the situation which Waverley’s father held in...
Chapter V A Letter from Tully-Veolan
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

In the morning, when Waverley’s troubled reflections had for some time given way to repose, there came music to his dreams, but not the voice of Selma.* He imagined himself transported back to Tully-Veolan, and that he heard David Gellatly singing in...
Chapter VII Shows that the Loss of a Horse’s Shoe may be a serious Inconvenience
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The manner and air of Waverley, but above all the glittering contents of his purse, and the indifference with which he seemed to regard them, somewhat overawed his companion, and deterred him from making any attempts to enter upon conversation. His own reflections were...
Chapter XIX A Soldier’s Dinner
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

James Of The
Needle was a man of his word, when whiskey was no party to the contract; and upon this occasion Callum Beg, who still thought himself in Waverley’s debt, since he had declined accepting compensation at the expence of mine Host of...
Chapter VII “To one thing constant never”
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

“I Am the very child of caprice,” said Waverley to himself, as he bolted the door of his apartment, and paced it with hasty steps—“What is it to me that Fergus Mac-Ivor should wish to marry Rose Bradwardine?—I love her not—I might have...
Chapter XX Happy’s the wooing That’s not long a-doing
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When the first rapturous sensation occasioned by these excellent tidings had somewhat subsided, Edward proposed instantly to go down to the glen to acquaint the Baron with their import. But the cautious Baillie justly observed, that if the Baron were to appear instantly in...
Chapter XXV A Postscript, which should have been a Preface
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Our journey is now finished, gentle reader, and if your patience has accompanied me through these sheets, the contract is, on your part, strictly fulfilled. Yet, like the driver who has received his full hire, I still linger near you, and make, with becoming...
Chapter VI: Water! Water!
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

In two hours time, about four o’clock, I woke up. As soon as the first heavy demand of bodily fatigue had been satisfied, the torturing thirst from which I was suffering asserted itself. I could sleep no more. I had been dreaming that I...
Chapter VIII: We Enter Kukuanaland
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

All that afternoon we travelled on along the magnificent roadway, which headed steadily in a north-westerly direction. Infadoos and Scragga walked with us, but their followers marched about one hundred paces ahead.

‘Infadoos,’ I said at length, ‘who made this road?’

‘It was made, my...
Chapter XV: Good Falls Sick
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

After the fight was ended, Sir Henry and Good were carried into Twala’s hut, where I joined them. They were both utterly exhausted by exertion and loss of blood, and, indeed, my own condition was little better. I am very wiry, and can stand...
Chapter XVII: Solomon’s Treasure Chamber
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

While we had been engaged in getting over our fright, and in examining the grisly wonders of the place, Gagool had been differently occupied. Somehow or other—for she was marvellously active when she chose—she had scrambled on to the great table, and made her...
Beyond the Pale
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

A man should, whatever happens, keep to his own caste, race, and breed. Let the White go to the White and the Black to the...
The Man who would be King
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

The Law° , as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under...
‘Brugglesmith’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The first officer of the Breslau asked me to dinner on board, before the ship went round to Southampton to pick up her passengers. The Breslau...
Epitaphs of the War
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘Equality of Sacrifice’
Chapter V
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Dunstan Cass turned his back on the cottage, Silas Marner was not more than a hundred yards away from it, plodding along from the village with a sack thrown round his shoulders as an over-coat, and with a horn lantern* in...
Chapter XI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph* and a drab beaver-bonnet, with a crown resembling a small stew-pan; for a garment suggesting a coachman’s greatcoat, cut out under an exiguity...
Chapter IV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

oor Joe’s panic lasted for two or three days ; during which he did not visit the house, nor during that period did Miss Rebecca ever mention his name. She was all respectful gratitude to Mrs. Sedley; delighted beyond measure at the bazaars...
Chapter V
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

uff’s fight with Dobbin, and the unexpected issue of that contest, will long be remembered by every man who was educated at Dr. Swishtail’s famous school. The latter youth (who used to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, and by many other names...
Chapter XX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ithout knowing how, Captain William Dobbin found himself the great promoter, arranger, and manager of the match between George Osborne and Amelia. But for him it never would have taken place : he could not but confess as much to himself, and smiledrather...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ove may be felt for any young lady endowed with such qualities as Miss Swartz possessed; and a great dream of ambition entered into old Mr. Osborne’s soul, which she was to realize. He encouraged, with the utmost enthusiasm and friendliness, his daughters’...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

nquitting Brighton, our friend George, as became a person of rank and fashion, travelling in a barouche* with four horses, drove in state to a fine hotel in Cavendish Square,* where a suite of splendid rooms, and a table...
Chapter LI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

After Becky’s appearance at my Lord Steyne’s private and select parties the claims of that estimable woman as regards fashion, were settled ; and some of the very greatest and tallest doors in the metropolis were speedily opened to her—doors so great and...
Chapter LIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Friend Rawdon drove on then to Mr. Moss’s mansion in Cursitor f Street, and was duly inducted into that dis-mal place of hospitality. Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. A...
Chapter LXV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The day after the meeting at the play-table, Jos had himself arrayed with unusual care and splendour, and without thinking it necessary to say a word to any member of his family regarding the occurrences of the previous night, or asking for their...
Chapter XIII A Warning
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In the spring list of Mr Jedwood’s publications, announcement was made of a new work by Alfred Yule. It was called ‘English Prose in the Nineteenth Century,’ and consisted of a number of essays (several of which had already seen the light in periodicals)...
Chapter XVI Rejection
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

One of Reardon’s minor worries at this time was the fear that by chance he might come upon a review of ‘Margaret Home.’ Since the publication of his first book he had avoided as far as possible all knowledge of what the critics had...
Chapter XIX The Past Revived
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Nor would it be true to represent Edwin Reardon as rising to the new day wholly disconsolate. He too had slept unusually well, and with returning consciousness the sense of a burden removed was more instant than that of his loss and all the...
Chapter XXV A Fruitless Meeting
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders. In certain natures the extreme of self-pity is intolerable, and leads to self-destruction; but there are less fortunate beings whom the vehemence of their...
Chapter XXVIII Interim
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

The rooms which Milvain had taken for himself and his sisters were modest, but more expensive than their old quarters. As the change was on his account he held himself responsible for the extra outlay. But for his immediate prospects this step would have...
The Case of Lady Sannox
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

T
he relations between Douglas Stone and the notorious Lady Sannox were very well known both among the fashionable circles of which she was a brilliant member, and the scientific bodies which numbered him among their most illustrious confrères.* There...
The Beetle-Hunter
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

U
curious experience? said the Doctor. Yes, my friends, I have had one very curious experience. I never expect to have another, for it is against all doctrines of chances that two such events would befall any one man in a single lifetime. You...
The Retirement of Signor Lambert
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

S
ir
William
Sparter was a man who had raised himself in the course of a quarter of a century from earning four-and-twenty shillings a week as a fitter in Portsmouth Dockyard to being the owner of a yard and a fleet of his...
The Horror of the Heights
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

T
he idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter....
The Bully of Brocas Court
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

T
hat year—it was in 1878—the South Midland Yeomanry were out near Luton,* and the real question which appealed to every man in the great camp was not how to prepare for a possible European war,* but the far more...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The church, quite empty, was all white on this May morning. The bell rope hanging by the confessional was now still. The night light, in a coloured glass, was casting a patch of red on the wall to the right of the tabernacle.*...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

La Teuse rushed to douse the candles but paused for a moment, trying to chase the sparrows away. So when she carried the Missal back to the sacristy, Abbé Mouret was no longer there, having already washed his hands and put away the sacred...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile, the sun was warming the main door of the church. Golden flies were buzzing around a large flower growing between two of the steps in front of the door. Feeling a little dazed, Abbé Mouret was just deciding to move on when the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The road wound on round fallen rocks, in the midst of which the peasants had here and there won four or five hard metres of chalky soil, planted with old olive trees. The dust in the deep ruts in the road crackled like snow...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

This recalling of the great joys of his youth had given Abbé Mouret a touch of fever. He no longer felt the cold. He let go of the fire tongs, and went over to his bed as if he were going to lie down,...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Immaculate Conception on the walnut chest of drawers smiled down tenderly with her thin lips outlined in carmine. She was small and entirely white. Her long white veil, which hung from her head to her feet, had only an imperceptible thread of gold...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Albine and
Serge entered the flower garden. She was looking at him with anxious concern, fearing he might be getting overtired. But he reassured her with a little laugh. He felt strong enough to take her wherever she might want to go. When he...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The very next morning, Serge shut himself up in his room. The smell of the flower garden was really irritating him. He drew the calico curtains across, to avoid seeing the park and to prevent it coming in. Perhaps here he would be able...
Chapter XV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

They went down and walked into the garden; Serge was still smiling. He saw the greenery only as reflected in the clear mirrors of Albine’s eyes. The garden, on seeing the couple, had seemed to give a long laugh and a murmur of satisfaction...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Now my soup is too hot,’ grumbled La Teuse, coming back from the kitchen with a bowl in which a wooden spoon was standing upright.* She stood in front of Abbé Mouret, and started to eat cautiously from the tip of the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Abbé
Mouret spent his days in the presbytery. He avoided the long walks he used to take before his illness. The scorched land of Les Artaud, and the ardent heat of this valley where only twisted vines could grow, disturbed him. Twice he had...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Sundays were very busy days for Abbé Mouret. He had Vespers, which he usually said to empty chairs, for even Mother Brichet didn’t push her devotion to the point of coming back to church in the afternoon. Then at four o’clock, Brother Archangias brought...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A few steps beyond the wall, Albine was sitting on a carpet of grass. She rose to her feet when she saw Serge.

‘You’re here!’ she cried, trembling from head to foot.

‘Yes,’ he said calmly, ‘I have come.’

She threw her arms around his...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That morning there was a great commotion in the farmyard of the presbytery. The butcher from Les Artaud had just killed Matthew the pig, in the shed. Désirée, enormously excited, had held Matthew’s feet while he was being bled, kissing him on his back...
Ode to Pity
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

To Miss Austen,* the following Ode to Pity* is dedicated, from a thorough knowledge of her pitiful* Nature, by her obedt hum1e Servt

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The First Wife’s Wedding-Ring
Authors: Ewing Juliana Horatia
Published: December 2020

Many years ago, there lived a certain worthy man who was twice married. By his first wife he had a son, who soon after his mother’s death resolved to become a soldier, and go to foreign lands. ‘When one has seen the world, one...
The Reluctant Dragon
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. In a poetry-book presented to one of us by an aunt, there was a poem by one Wordsworth*...
Chapter 9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That evening, as she walked back from the cathedral, Angélique thought to herself: ‘I will see him soon: he will be in the Clos-Marie, and I will go down and meet him.’ The rendezvous had been settled with a glance.

They had a late dinner,...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the morning, at seven o’clock, as usual, Angélique was at work. Day followed day, and each morning she calmly set herself down before the chasuble from which she had risen the previous evening. Nothing seemed to have changed; she kept strictly to her...
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Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The days went by. October started out gloriously, the warm passion of summer generously ripening into a fiery autumn, without a cloud in the sky. Then the weather turned, terrible winds blew, and a final storm cut channels into the slopes. And inside the...
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Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Then came happy possession, the happy idyll. Clotilde was the new lease of life that had come to Pascal late, in his old age. She brought him sunshine and flowers, filling her lover’s skirts full of them; and she gave him this youthfulness after...
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Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Yet the very next night the anxious insomnia returned. Neither Pascal nor Clotilde spoke about their uneasiness; but in the darkness of the saddened room, they lay for hours side by side, pretending to be asleep, both thinking of the worsening situation. Each of...
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Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the workroom, Clotilde buttoned up her bodice, still holding her baby on her knees, having just given him her breast. It was after lunch, around three, on a sparkling day in late August, with an incandescent sky; and the shutters, carefully shut, let...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The christening procession was due to start from the Pavillon de l’Horloge at five o’clock. The route ran along the main avenue of the Tuileries gardens, across the Place de la Concorde, down the Rue de Rivoli, across the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, over the...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Summer arrived. Rougon was living a life of absolute peace. In three months his wife had turned the house in the Rue Marbeuf into a very sober place, purging it of its aura of excitement. Now, the rooms—rather chilly and very clean—were redolent of...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was nearly seven o’clock on the evening of Clorinde’s arrival at Compiègne, and she was chatting with Monsieur de Plouguern, near a window in the Map Gallery. They were all waiting for the Emperor and Empress to arrive and for everyone to go...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Rougon had written to Du Poizat and Monsieur Kahn asking them to spare him the tedium of an official reception on his arrival at Niort. He went down on a Saturday evening, arriving a little before seven, and drove straight to the Prefecture, with...
Chapter 12
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Clorinde was now growing both odder and more assertive. She was still at bottom the tall, eccentric young woman who had once hired a horse to ride around Paris in search of a husband, but she had now grown into a real woman, large...
Chapter 13
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For a week, Rougon heard the outcry against him growing ever louder. They would have forgiven him everything—abuse of power, the greed of his gang, his stranglehold on the country; but sending gendarmes to upend the Sisters’ mattresses was so monstrous a crime that...
Chapter 14
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One March day, three years later, there was a very stormy sitting of the legislative body. For the first time, the address from the throne was to be debated.*

In the bar, Monsieur La Rouquette and an elderly deputy, Monsieur de Lamberthon, who had...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everything was confusion in the Oblonskys’ house.* The wife had found out that the husband was having an affair with the French governess formerly in their house, and had...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Oblonsky had asked Levin the real reason for his visit, Levin had blushed and been angry with himself for blushing, because he could not reply: ‘I have come to propose to your sister-in-law,’ although this was the only reason for his visit.

The Levin...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After dinner and before the evening commenced, Kitty experienced a feeling similar to what a young man experiences before going into battle. Her heart was beating fast, and she could not keep her mind focused on anything.

She felt that this evening, when the two...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

But at that very moment the Princess made her appearance. Her face was a picture of horror when she found them alone and saw their distressed faces. Levin bowed to her and said nothing. Kitty remained silent, not lifting her eyes. ‘Thank goodness, she’s...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Dolly came out of her room for the grown-ups’ tea. Stepan Arkadyich did not appear. He had evidently left his wife’s room through the back door.

‘I’m worried you are going to be cold upstairs,’ remarked Dolly, turning to Anna. ‘I’d like to move you...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Yes, there is something loathsome and repellent about me,’ thought Levin as he left the Shcherbatskys and set off on foot to see his brother. ‘And I don’t fit in with other people. Pride, they say. No, I don’t have any pride. If...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the morning Konstantin Levin left Moscow, and by evening he had arrived home. During the journey he talked to the other passengers in his compartment about politics, about the new railways, and just as in Moscow, he was overwhelmed by a confusion of...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The house was large and old, and although Levin lived on his own, he heated and occupied all of it. He knew this was stupid, and that it was even quite bad and flew in the face of his current new plans, but this...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky did not even try to fall asleep at all that night. He sat in his seat, either staring straight ahead of him or inspecting the people coming in and going out, and if previously he surprised and unnerved people he did not know...
33
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Alexey
Alexandrovich returned from the ministry at four o’clock, but as often happened, he did not have time to go in and see her. He went straight to his study to receive the petitioners who were waiting for him, and to sign some papers...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the end of the winter, a consultation took place at the Shcherbatsky home to determine the state of Kitty’s health and the measures needed to restore her diminishing strength. She was ill, and with the approach of spring her health had worsened. The...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When she went into Kitty’s small boudoir, a pretty, pink room full of vieux Saxe* figurines which was as young, pink, and light-hearted as Kitty herself had been only two months earlier, Dolly remembered how they had decorated the room together...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess Betsy left the theatre without waiting for the end of the last act. She had just enough time to go into her dressing room, sprinkle her long, pale face with powder, dab it off, adjust her hair, and order tea in the large...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the first days and weeks after his return from Moscow, whenever Levin cringed and blushed as he remembered the ignominy of being rejected, he would say to himself: ‘I used to blush and cringe in just the same way, thinking my life was...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

A Temporary stable, a shed made out of wooden planks, had been put up near the racecourse, and his horse was supposed to have been brought there the previous day. He had not seen her yet. These last few days he had not...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There were seventeen officers competing in all. The race was to take place on the big three-mile, elliptical circuit in front of the pavilion. Nine obstacles had been set up on this ring: a stream, a large, solid five-foot barrier right in front of...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

As in all places where people gather, so too in the small German spa to which the Shcherbatskys had come there occurred the usual kind of crystallization of society that determines a specific and immutable place for each of its members. As specifically and...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Prince transmitted his high spirits to his family, to his acquaintances, and even to the German landlord in whose accommodation the Shcherbatskys were staying.

After returning from the springs with Kitty, and having invited the colonel, Marya Evgenievna, and Varenka to come for coffee,...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Sergey
Ivanovich
Koznyshev wanted to take a rest from intellectual work, and at the end of May, instead of going abroad as he usually did, he went to stay with his brother in the country. According to his convictions, country life was the very...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

While Stepan Arkadyich had gone to Petersburg to perform a most natural and most essential duty, an indispensable rite of passage familiar to all civil servants, albeit baffling to non-civil servants—reminding the ministry of his existence—and, after taking nearly all the money in the...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the end of May, when everything had more or less been sorted out, she received her husband’s reply to her complaints about the disarray in the country. He wrote to ask her forgiveness for not having thought about everything, and promised to come...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Surrounded by all the bathed, wet-haired children, and with a kerchief on her head, Darya Alexandrovna was just approaching the house when the coachman said:

‘There’s a gentleman coming, from Pokrovskoye it looks like.’

Darya Alexandrovna looked ahead and was delighted to see the familiar...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The game of croquet* to which Princess Tverskaya had invited Anna was to be played by two ladies and their admirers. The two ladies were the main representatives of a select new Petersburg set called les sept merveilles du monde,...