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Chapter Seven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of much Advantage to the King; which is rejected. The King’s great Ignorance in Politicks. The Learning of that Country very imperfect and confined. Their Laws, and military Affairs, and Parties in the State....
Chapter One
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author sets out on his Third Voyage. Is taken by Pyrates. The Malice of a Dutchman. His Arrival at an Island. He is received into Laputa.

I had not been at home above ten Days, when Captain William Robinson, a...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The shop in the Passage du Pont-Neuf remained closed for three days. When it opened again, it seemed even damper and more gloomy. The stock on display, yellowed by dust, wore the same air of mourning as the rest of the household; in the...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile, the secret efforts of Thérèse and Laurent were beginning to bear fruit. Thérèse had put on a glum, despairing expression which began to worry Madame Raquin after several days. The old haberdasher demanded to know what was making her niece so sad. So...
Chapter XX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That morning Laurent and Thérèse both awoke, in their separate rooms, with the same deeply joyful thought, that their last night of terror was over. No more sleeping on their own; from now on, they could defend each other against the drowned man.

Thérèse looked...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

After four months Laurent started to think about reaping some of the benefits he had expected from marriage. He would have abandoned his wife and fled from the ghost of Camille three days after the wedding, had self-interest not kept him tied to the...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The following Thursday the party at the Raquins’ (as the guests persisted in calling their hosts) was a particularly jolly affair. It went on until half past eleven. As he was leaving, Grivet declared that he had never in his life spent such a...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Crossing the open plain, wading through the thick, dark ink of a starless night, a solitary figure followed the highway from Marchiennes to Montsou,* which cut its paved pathway straight through ten kilometres of beet fields. The man could not even...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Amid the fields of wheat and sugar-beet, mining village number Two Hundred and Forty* slumbered in the depths of night. You could just detect the bulk of the four massive blocks of small back-to-back houses, running geometrically in parallel lines like a...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The clock on the little church of mining village Two Hundred and Forty was striking eleven. It was a brick chapel, where Father Joire came to say mass on Sundays. Beside it was another brick building, the school, where you could hear...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The day before, during a meeting held at Rasseneur’s, Étienne and some friends had chosen the delegates who were to meet the management the next day. That evening, when La Maheude found out that her man was to be one of them, she was...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

And in this fashion the group made off over the bare plain, white with frost beneath the pale winter sun, spilling over the sides of the road on to the beetfields.

By the time they had reached La Fourche-aux-Bœufs, Étienne had taken charge. Without anyone...
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Étienne, who had sobered up after being slapped by Catherine, had stayed at the head of his comrades. But while he launched them into the attack on Montsou, shouting hoarsely, he heard another voice within him, the voice of reason, asking in astonishment what...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was quite dark now, and she was still in his arms.

‘Stay here with me,’ he said.

But she withdrew, reluctantly, from his embrace.

‘No,’ she said. ‘It’s impossible. I must go home.’

‘Tomorrow, then. … Come back tomorrow. … Please.’

‘Tomorrow’s impossible too...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Saccard was haunted by the kiss he had planted on his wife’s neck. He had long ceased to avail himself of his marital rights; this had happened naturally, neither of them caring about a connection that inconvenienced them. Saccard would never think of returning...
Letter IV Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, March 12.

I am grieved, Madam, to appear obstinate, and I blush to incur the imputation of selfishness. In detaining my young charge thus long with myself in the country, I consulted not solely my own inclination. Destined, in all probability,...
Letter VI Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove

Dear and Rev. Sir,

The solemn manner in which you have committed your child to my care, has in some measure dampt the pleasure which I receive from the trust, as it makes me fear that you suffer from your compliance, in...
Letter XXVII Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove.

Dear Sir,

I cannot give a greater proof of the high opinion I have of your candour, than by the liberty I am now going to take, of presuming to offer you advice, upon a subject concerning which you have so...
Letter XXX Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, May 6.

The die is thrown, and I attend the event in trembling! Lady Howard has written to Paris, and sent her letter to town, to be forwarded in the ambassador’s packet,* and in less than a fortnight, therefore, she...
Letter XXXI Lady Howard to Sir John Belmont, Bart
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, May 5.

Sir,

You will, doubtless, be surprised at receiving a letter from one who had for so short a period the honour of your acquaintance, and that at so great a distance of time; but the motive which has induced me...
Letter IV Sir John Belmont to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Paris, May 11.

Madam,

I have this moment the honour of your Ladyship’s letter, and I will not wait another, before I return an answer.

It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another,...
Letter IX Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

London, June 6.

Once more, my dearest Sir, I write to you from this great city. Yesterday morning, with the truest concern, I quitted the dear inhabitants of Howard Grove, and most impatiently shall I count the days till I see them again. Lady...
Letter XIV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

June 15th.

Yesterday morning, Madame Duval again sent me to Mr. Branghton’s, attended by M. Du Bois, to make some party for the evening; because she had had the vapours* the preceding day, from staying at home.

As I entered the shop, I perceived...
Letter XVIII Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill.

Displeasure? my Evelina!—you have but done your duty; you have but shewn that humanity without which I should blush to own my child. It is mine, however, to see that your generosity be not repressed by your suffering from indulging it; I...
Letter XXIX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, August 10.

You complain of my silence, my dear Miss Mirvan,—but what have I to write? Narrative does not offer, nor does a lively imagination supply the deficiency. I have, however, at present, sufficient matter for a letter, in relating a conversation...
Letter III Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Bristol Hotwells, Sept. 19th.

Yesterday morning, Mrs. Selwyn received a card from Mrs. Beaumont, to ask her to dinner to-day; and another, to the same purpose, came to me. The invitation was accepted, and we are but just arrived from Clifton-Hill.

We found Mrs....
Letter VI Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, Sept. 28.

Dead to the world, and equally insensible to its pleasures or its pains, I long since bid adieu to all joy, and defiance to all sorrow, but what should spring from my Evelina,—sole source, to me, of all earthly felicity....
Letter VII Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Sept. 28.

Sweetly, most sweetly, have two days more passed since I wrote; but I have been too much engaged to be exact in my journal.

To-day has been less tranquil. It was destined for the decision of the important bet, and has...
Letter IX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Oct. 1 st.

Good God, my dear Sir, what a wonderful tale have I again to relate! even yet, I am not recovered from my extreme surprise.

Yesterday morning, as soon as I had finished my hasty letter, I was summoned to attend a walking...
Letter XV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Oct. 6th.

And now, my dearest Sir, if the perturbation of my spirits will allow me, I will finish my last letter from Clifton Hill.

This morning, though I did not go down stairs early, I was the only person in the parlour when Lord...
The Problem
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I
Confess that at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill in the doctor’s voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by that which he told us. Holmes leaned forward in his excitement, and his eyes had the...
First Report of Dr Watson
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

From this point onwards I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table. One page is missing,* but otherwise they are exactly as written, and show my...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly 10th to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly it came no doubt from his own masterful nature, which...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As soon as Joseph had communicated a particular History of the Robbery, together with a short Account of himself, and his intended Journey, he asked the Surgeon ‘if he apprehended him to be in any Danger:’ To which the Surgeon very honestly...
Chapter VI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Leonora having once broke through the Bounds which Custom and Modesty impose on her Sex, soon gave an unbridled Indulgence to her Passion. Her Visits to Bellarmine were more constant, as well as longer, than his Surgeon’s; in a word, she became...
Chapter VII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Lady having finished her Story received the Thanks of the Company, and now Joseph putting his Head out of the Coach, cried out, ‘Never believe me, if yonder be not our Parson Adams walking along without his...
Chapter IX
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Gentleman highly commended Mr. Adams for his good Resolutions, and told him, ‘he hoped his Son would tread in his Steps;’ adding, ‘that if he would not die for his Country, he would not be worthy to live in...
Chapter X
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Silence of Adams, added to the Darkness of the Night, and Loneliness of the Place, struck dreadful Apprehensions into the poor Woman’s Mind: She began to fear as great an Enemy in her Deliverer, as he had delivered her from; and...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It will doubtless seem extremely odd to many Readers, that Mrs. Slipslop, who had lived several Years in the same House with Fanny, should in a short Separation utterly forget her. And indeed the truth is, that she remembered her...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Parson
Adams came to the House of Parson Trulliber, whom he found stript into his Waistcoat, with an Apron on, and a Pail in his Hand, just come from serving his Hogs; for Mr. Trulliber was a Parson on ...
Chapter VI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I have often wondered, Sir,’ said Joseph, ‘to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho’ the Goodness of a Man’s Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his Fellow-Creatures, methinks the Desire of Honour should move him...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Lady sat down with her Company to Dinner: but eat nothing. As soon as her Cloth was removed, she whispered Pamela, that she was taken a little ill, and desired her to entertain her Husband and Beau Didapper. She...
Letters to the Editor.
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Editor to Himself.

Dear SIR,

However you came by the excellent Shamela, out with it, with-out Fear or Favour, Dedication and all; believe me, it will go through many Editions, be translated into all Languages, read in all Nations and...
A short description of Squire Allworthy, and a fuller account of Miss Bridget Allworthy, his sister
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived (and perhaps lives still) a gentleman whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both Nature and Fortune; for both of...
The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

My reader may please to remember he hath been informed that Jenny Jones had lived some years with a certain schoolmaster, who had, at her earnest desire, instructed her in Latin, in which, to do justice to her genius, she had so improved herself,...
A childish incident, in which, however, is seen a good-natured disposition in Tom Jones
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money* for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.

This horse Tom kept above half a year, and then rode him to a neighbouring fair,...
Containing matter accommodated to every taste
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Parva leves capiunt animos* ‘Small things affect light minds,’ was the sentiment of a great master of the passion of love. And certain it is, that from this day Sophia began to have some little kindness for Tom Jones, and no little aversion...
In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The rest of Mr Western’s company were now come up, being just at the instant when the action was over. These were the honest clergyman, whom we have formerly seen at Mr Western’s table; Mrs Western, the aunt of Sophia; and lastly, the lovely...
The character of Mrs Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader hath seen Mr Western, his sister, and daughter, with young Jones, and the parson, going together to Mr Western’s house, where the greater part of the company spent the evening with much joy and festivity. Sophia was indeed the only grave person;...
Containing several matters, natural enough perhaps, but LOW
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader will be pleased to remember that we left Mr Jones, in the beginning of this book, on his road to Bristol, being determined to seek his fortune at sea, or rather, indeed, to fly away from his fortune on shore.

It happened (a...
The adventure of a company of officers
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The lieutenant whom we mentioned in the preceding chapter, and who commanded this party, was now near sixty years of age. He had entered very young into the army, and had served in the capacity of an ensign at the Battle of Taisnieres;*...
A brief history of Europe. And a curious discourse between Mr Jones and the Man of the Hill
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘In Italy the landlords are very silent. In France they are more talkative, but yet civil. In Germany and Holland they are generally very impertinent. And as for their honesty, I believe it is pretty equal in all those countries. The laquais...
In which Mr Jones and Mr Dowling drink a bottle together
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Dowling, pouring out a glass of wine, named the health of the good Squire Allworthy, adding, ‘If you please, sir, we will likewise remember his nephew and heir, the young squire; come, sir, here’s Mr Blifil to you, a very pretty young gentleman;...
An invocation
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Come, bright love of fame, inspire my glowing breast: not thee I call, who, over swelling tides of blood and tears, dost bear the hero on to glory, while sighs of millions waft his spreading sails; but thee, fair, gentle maid, whom Mnesis,*...
An adventure which happened to Mr Jones at his lodgings, with some account of a young gentleman who lodged there, and of the mistress of the house, and her two daughters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The next morning, as early as it was decent, Jones attended at Mrs Fitzpatrick’s door, where he was answered that the lady was not at home, an answer which surprised him the more as he had walked backwards and forwards in the street from...
A chapter which, though short, may draw tears from some eyes
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones was just dressed to wait on Lady Bellaston, when Mrs Miller rapped at his door; and, being admitted, very earnestly desired his company below-stairs, to drink tea in the parlour.

Upon his entrance into the room, she presently introduced a person to him,...
Containing letters and other matters which attend amours
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones had not been long at home before he received the following letter.

‘I was never more surprised than when I found you was gone. When you left the room, I little imagined you intended to have left the house without seeing me again. Your...
Containing a scene which we doubt not will affect all our readers
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones closed not his eyes during all the former part of the night; not owing it to any uneasiness which he conceived at being disappointed by Lady Bellaston; nor was Sophia herself, though most of his waking hours were justly to be charged...
In which is opened a very black design against Sophia
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

I remember a wise old gentleman who used to say, ‘When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.’ I will not enlarge this quaint saying to the most beautiful part of the creation in general; but so far I may be allowed, that...
A pathetic scene between Mr Allworthy and Mrs Miller
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Miller had a long discourse with Mr Allworthy, at his return from dinner, in which she acquainted him with Jones’s having unfortunately lost all which he was pleased to bestow on him at their separation; and with the distresses to which that loss...
Containing a very tragical incident
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

While Jones was employed in those unpleasant meditations, with which we left him tormenting himself, Partridge came stumbling into the room with his face paler than ashes, his eyes fixed in his head, his hair standing on end, and every limb trembling. In short,...
Containing two letters in very different styles
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘My worthy friend,

I informed you in my last that I was forbidden the use of the waters, as they were found by experience rather to increase than lessen the symptoms of my distemper. I must now acquaint you with a piece of news...
In which the history is farther continued
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Sure, friend,’ said this good man, ‘you are the strangest of all human beings. Not only to have suffered as you have formerly for obstinately persisting in a falsehood, but to persist in it thus to the last, and to pass thus upon...
Chapter III ‘The More Haste the Worse Speed’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Learn to win a lady’s faith       Nobly, as the thing is high; Bravely, as for life and death—       With a loyal gravity.

Lead her from the festive boards,       Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words,       Pure from courtship’s flatteries.’
Chapter V Decision
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘I ask Thee for a thoughtful love,       Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles,       And to wipe the weeping eyes; And a heart at leisure from itself       To soothe and sympathise.’

Margaret made a good listener to...
Chapter XVI The Shadow of Death
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Trust in that veiled hand, which leads None by the path that he would go; And always be for change prepared, For the world’s law is ebb and flow.’

The next afternoon Dr. Donaldson came to pay his first visit...
Chapter XVII What is a Strike
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘There are briars besetting every path,       Which call for patient care; There is a cross in every lot,       And an earnest need for prayer.’

Margaret went out heavily and unwillingly enough. But the length of a street—yes, the air of a...
Chapter XXIII Mistakes
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Which when his mother saw, she in her mind Was troubled sore, ne wist well what to ween.’

Margaret had not been gone five minutes when Mr. Thornton came in, his face all a-glow.

‘I could not come sooner: the superintendent would———Where...
Chapter XXV Frederick
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Revenge may have her own; Roused discipline aloud proclaims their cause, And injured navies urge their broken laws.’

Margaret began to wonder whether all offers were as unexpected beforehand,—as distressing at the time of their occurrence, as the two she had...
Chapter VIII Peace
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Sleep on, my love, in thy cold bed, Never to be disquieted! My last Good Night—thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake.’

Home seemed unnaturally quiet after all this terror and noisy commotion. Her father had seen...
Chapter XIV Making Friends
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Nay, I have done; you get no more of me: And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so clearly I myself am free.’

Margaret shut herself up in her own room, after she had quitted Mrs....
Chapter XVII Alone! Alone!
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘When some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence, against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new— What hope? what help? what music will undo That silence to your sense?’
Chapter IV Gabriel’s resolve: the visit: the mistake
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind, but a superiority which recognises itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.

This well-favoured and comely girl soon...
Chapter X Mistress and men
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Half an hour later Bathsheba in finished dress and followed by Liddy entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity. She sat down at...
Chapter XIX The sheep-washing: the offer
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Boldwood did eventually call upon her. She was not at home. “Of course not,” he murmured. In contemplating Bathsheba as a woman he had forgotten the accidents of her position as an agriculturist: that being as much of a farmer and as extensive a...
Chapter XX Perplexity: grinding the shears: a quarrel
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire,” Bathsheba mused.

Yet Farmer Boldwood, whether by nature kind or the reverse to kind, did not exercise kindness here. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence,...
Chapter XXII The Great Barn and the sheep shearers
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been...
Chapter XXVII Hiving the bees
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The Weatherbury bees were late in their swarming this year. It was during the latter part of June, and the day after the interview with Troy in the hayfield, that Bathsheba was standing in her garden, watching a swarm in the air, and guessing...
Chapter XXXVIII Rain: one solitary meets another
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was now five o’clock, and the dawn was promising to break in hues of drab and ash.

The air changed its temperature and stirred itself more vigorously. Cool breezes coursed in transparent eddies round Oak’s face. The wind shifted yet a point or two...
Chapter XLV Troy’s romanticism
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Troy’s wife had left the house at the previous midnight his first act was to cover the dead from sight. This done he ascended the stairs, and throwing himself down upon the bed, dressed as he was, he waited miserably for the morning....

Fate...
Chapter LII Converging courses
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

i.

Christmas-eve came, and a party that Boldwood was to give in the evening was the great subject of talk in Weatherbury. It was not that the rarity of Christmas parties in the parish made this one a wonder, but that Boldwood should be...
Chapter LVII A foggy night and morning: conclusion
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“The most private, secret, plainest wedding that it is possible to have.”

Those had been Bathsheba’s words to Oak one evening some time after the event of the preceding chapter, and he meditated a full hour by the clock upon how to carry out...
II.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

But under the various deterrent influences Jude’s instinct was to approach her timidly, and the next Sunday he went to the morning service in the Cathedral-church of Cardinal College* to gain a further view of her, for he had found that she...
III.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The seventy young women, of ages varying in the main from nineteen to one-and-twenty, though several were older, who at this date filled the species of nunnery known as the Training-School* at Melchester, formed a very mixed community which included the daughters...
VI.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Sue was convalescent, though she had hoped for death, and Jude had again obtained work at his old trade. They were in other lodgings now, in the direction of Beersheba, and not far from the Church of Ceremonies—Saint Silas.

They would sit silent, more bodeful...
VIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Thus they parted; and Elizabeth-Jane and her mother remained, each in her thoughts over their meal, the mother’s face being strangely bright since Henchard’s avowal of shame for a past action. The quivering of the partition to its core presently denoted that Donald Farfrae...
XII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On entering his own door after watching his wife out of sight, the mayor walked on through the tunnel-shaped passage into the garden, and thence by the back door towards the stores and granaries. A light shone from the office window, and, there being...
XV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At first Miss Newson’s budding beauty was not regarded with much interest by anybody in Casterbridge. Donald Farfrae’s gaze, it is true, was now attracted by the mayor’s so-called step-daughter, but he was only one. The truth is that she was but a poor...
XX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Of all the enigmas which ever confronted a girl there can have been seldom one like that which followed Henchard’s announcement of himself to Elizabeth as her father. He had done it in an ardour and an agitation which had half carried the point...
XXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A conjecture that her visitor might be some other person had, indeed, flashed through Lucetta’s mind when she was on the point of bursting out; but it was just too late to recede.

He was years younger than the mayor of Casterbridge; fair, fresh, and...
XXIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Poor Elizabeth-Jane, little thinking what her malignant star* had done to blast the budding attentions she had won from Donald Farfrae, was glad to hear Lucetta’s words about remaining.

For in addition to Lucetta’s house being a home, that raking view of the market-place...
XXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It chanced that on a fine spring morning Henchard and Farfrae met in the chestnut walk which ran along the south wall of the town. Each had just come out from his early breakfast, and there was not another soul near. Henchard was reading...
XXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At this hour Lucetta was bounding along the road to Port-Bredy just as Elizabeth had announced. That she had chosen for her afternoon walk the road along which she had returned to Casterbridge three hours earlier in a carriage, was curious—if anything should be...
Chapter II Humanity appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Along the road walked an old man. He was white headed as a mountain, bowed in the shoulders, and faded in general aspect. He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes, his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face. In his...
Chapter III The Custom of the Country
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Had a looker-on been posted in the immediate vicinity of the barrow he would have learnt that these persons were boys and men of the neighbouring hamlets. Each, as he ascended the barrow, had been heavily laden with furze-faggots,* carried upon the...
Chapter IX Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Having seen Eustacia’s signal from the hill at eight o’clock, Wildeve immediately prepared to assist her in her flight. He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing Thomasin that he was going on a journey was in itself sufficient to rouse her suspicions....
Chapter III The Serious Discourse of Clym with his Cousin
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Throughout this period Yeobright had more or less pondered on his duty to his cousin Thomasin. He could not help feeling that it would be a pitiful waste of sweet material if the tender-natured thing should be doomed from this early stage of her...
XXV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Clare, restless, went out into the dusk when evening drew on, she who had won him having retired to her chamber.

The night was as sultry as the day. There was no coolness after dark unless on the grass. Roads, garden-paths, the house fronts, the...
XXX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the diminishing daylight they went along the level roadway through the meads, which stretched away into grey miles, and were backed in the extreme edge of distance by the swarthy and abrupt slopes of Egdon Heath. On its summits stood clumps and stretches...
XXXIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

They drove by the level road along the valley to a distance of a few miles, and reaching Wellbridge turned away from the village to the left, and over the great Elizabethan bridge which gives the place half its name. Immediately behind it stood...
XXXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was three weeks after the marriage that Clare found himself descending the hill which led to the well-known parsonage of his father. With his downward course the tower of the church rose into the evening sky in a manner of inquiry as to...
XLVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Several days had passed since her futile journey, and Tess was afield. The dry winter wind still blew, but a screen of thatched hurdles erected in the eye of the blast kept its force away from her. On the sheltered side was a turnip-slicing...
LIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In a quarter of an hour Clare was leaving the house, whence his mother watched his thin figure as it disappeared into the street. He had declined to borrow his father’s old mare, well knowing of its necessity to the household. He went to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Justine died; she rested;...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and ...
The Journal to Eliza
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

This Journal wrote under the fictitious Names of Yorick and Draper—and sometimes of the Bramin and Bramine°—but tis a Diary of the miserable feelings of a person separated from a Lady for whose Society he languish’d—

The real Names—are foreigne—and the Account a...
30 How Mouston Had Become Fatter Without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell That Worthy Gentleman
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Since the departure of Athos for Blois, Porthos and d’Artagnan were seldom together. One was occupied with harassing duties for the King; the other had been making many purchases of furniture, which he intended to forward to his estate, and by aid of which...
43 Colbert
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

History will tell us, or rather history has told us, of the various events of the following day, of the splendid fêtes given by the Surintendant to his sovereign. There was nothing but amusement and delight allowed to prevail throughout the whole of the...
47 The Shadow of M. Fouquet
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’ Artagnan, still confused and oppressed by the conversation he had just had with the King, could not resist asking himself if he were really in possession of his senses; if he were really and truly at Vaux; if he, d’Artagnan, were really...
48 The Morning
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In opposition to the sad and terrible destiny of the King imprisoned in the Bastille, and tearing, in sheer despair, the bolts and bars of his dungeon, the rhetoric of the chroniclers of old would not fail to present as a complete antithesis the...
51 The King’S Gratitude
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The two men were on the point of darting towards each other when they suddenly and abruptly stopped, as a mutual recognition took place, and each uttered a cry of horror.

“Have you come to assassinate me, monsieur?” said the King, when he recognised Fouquet....
56 Preparations for Departure
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos lost no more time in combating this immutable resolution. He gave all his attention to preparing, during the two days the Due had granted to him, the proper appointments for Raoul. This labour chiefly concerned Grimaud, who immediately applied himself to it with...
75 The Grotto of Locmaria
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The cavern of Locmaria was sufficiently distant from the mole to render it necessary for our friends to husband their strength to arrive there. Besides, night was advancing; midnight had struck at the fort. Porthos and Aramis were loaded with money and arms. They...
84 The Old Age of Athos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

While all these affairs were separating for ever the four musketeers, formerly bound together in a manner that seemed indissoluble, Athos, left alone after the departure of Raoul, began to pay his tribute to that anticipated death which is called the absence of those...
88 The Last Canto of the Poem
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On the morrow, all the nobility of the provinces, of the environs, and wherever messengers had carried the news, were seen to arrive. D’Artagnan had shut himself up, without being willing to speak to anybody. Two such heavy deaths falling upon the captain, so...
III two old enemies
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan arrived at the Bastille as it was striking half-past eight. His visit was announced to the governor, who, learning that he came from the minister with an order, went to receive him at the outside steps. The governor of the Bastille was...
VIII of the different influences which half a pistole can have on a beadle and a choir boy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan crossed the Pont Neuf while congratulating himself on having come across Planchet; for though seeming to render him a service, it was d’Artagnan in reality who was receiving one from Planchet. Nothing could at that moment be more agreeable to him than...
XI the two gaspards
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘What are you musing on, d’Artagnan,’ said he, ‘and what thought makes you smile?’

‘I am thinking, my dear fellow, that when you were a musketeer you were forever becoming the abbé, and now you are an abbé you appear to me to have...
XVII athos’s diplomacy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had gone to bed not so much to sleep as to be alone and think over all he had seen and heard that evening. As he had a good disposition, and had had from the first an instinctive liking for Athos which...
XXI what the pies made by father marteau’s successor contained
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Half an hour after, La Ramée came back light and gay, like a man who has eaten as well as drunk well. He had found the pastry excellent, and the wine delicious.

The weather was fine, and permitted the projected game. Tennis as played at...
XXII an adventure of marie michon
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

About the same time when these projects of escape were in train between the Duc de Beaufort and Grimaud, two men on horseback, followed at a few paces off by a servant, entered Paris by the Rue du Faubourg St Marcel.* These...
XXVIII the meeting
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

They went on for ten minutes in this way. Suddenly two black patches detached themselves from the mass, advanced, grew larger, and as they grew larger, took the form of two cavaliers.

‘Oh, oh!’ said d’Artagnan, ‘they are coming towards us.’

‘So much the worse...
XXXV grimaud speaks
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Grimaud remained alone by the executioner. The host had gone to get medical help; his wife was praying. In a few moments the wounded man again opened his eyes.

‘Help me!’ he muttered. ‘Oh God! shall I not find a friend in the world to...
LV how d’artagnan gained two hundred and nineteen louis, and porthos two hundred and fifteen louis, by selling straw
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Mazarin wished to set out at once for St Germain; but the queen determined to await those who had been told to meet them there. Only she offered Laporte’s place to the cardinal. The latter accepted, and changed coaches.

There was good reason for the...
LXV the party at lansquenet
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was nine at night; the posts had been changed at eight, and Captain Groslow’s turn of duty had lasted an hour. D’Artagnan and Porthos, armed with swords, Aramis and Athos, each with a poniard hidden in his breast, went towards the house which...
LXVI london
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When the tramp of the horses was lost in the distance, d’Artagnan regained the bank of the stream, and began to cross the plain, directing his course as much as possible in the direction of London. His three friends followed him in silence, until...
LXXXIII journey to picardy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos and Aramis, while quite safe in Paris, did not hide from themselves the fact that directly they put foot outside of it, they would run great risks; but with such men that was not an important question. Besides, they felt that the issue...
LXXXV the royalty of m. de mazarin
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The arrest had made no noise, caused no scandal, and was hardly known. It had in no respect impeded the course of events, and the deputation sent by the city of Paris was solemnly informed that it would be received in audience by the...
XC strength of arm and strength of mind (concluded)
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Porthos took hold of one of the window-bars with both hands, threw his strength into them, and pulled it towards him, making it bend like a bow, so that the two ends came from the holes in the stone where for thirty years the...
XCV how greater progress is made with a pen and a threat, than by the sword and devotedness (concluded)
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Anne of Austria cast her eyes over the treaty which d’Artagnan presented to her.

‘I see in it,’ said she, ‘only general conditions. The interests of M. de Conti, M. de Beaufort, M. de Bouillon, M. d’Elbeuf, and Monsieur the Coadjutor, are therein consulted. But...
XCVII where it is shown that it is sometimes more difficult for kings to return to their capital than to leave it (concluded)
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Like all the movements of a crowd, the shock was terrific; the Musketeers, few in number, thrown out of line, and unable in the midst of this multitude to make their horses move forward, began to be broken through. D’Artagnan had wished to have...
conclusion
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On returning to their hotel the two friends found a letter from Athos, appointing a meeting at the Charlemagne Hêtel for the morning of the next day.

Both went to bed early, but neither could sleep. They had not gained the object of their wishes...
Chapter VII
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

verybody, I suppose, knows the dreamy delicious state in which one lies, half asleep, half awake,...
Chapter II
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

do not mean to recount all the little troubles and annoyances which thronged upon Tom at the beginning of this half-year,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

he curtain now rises upon the last act of our little drama—for hard-hearted...
Chapter IV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily seized the first opportunity of conversing alone with Mons. Quesnel, concerning La Vallée. His answers to her enquiries were concise, and delivered with the air of a man, who is conscious of possessing...
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the following morning, Emily went early to the apartment of Madame Montoni, who had slept well, and was much recovered. Her spirits...
Chapter XI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily remained in her chamber, on the following morning, without receiving any notice from Montoni, or seeing a human being, except the armed men, who sometimes passed on the terrace below. Having tasted no food since the...
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily pursued her journey, without any accident,...
Chapter XIII I Continue My Career as a Man of Fashion
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

I find I have already filled up many scores of pages, and yet a vast deal of the most interesting portion of my history remains to be told, viz., that which describes my sojourn in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, and the great...
6 Of Recognition by Sight
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

I am about to appear very inconsistent. In previous sections I have said that all figures in Flatland present the appearance of a straight line; and it was added or implied, that it is consequently impossible to distinguish by the visual organ between individuals...
20 How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

Although I had less than a minute for reflection, I felt, by a kind of instinct, that I must conceal my experiences from my Wife. Not that I apprehended, at the moment, any danger from her divulging my secret, but I know that to...
Chapter IV: A Rash Visit
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

MY dear father had been killed by the Doones of Bagworthy, while riding home from Porlock market, on the Saturday evening. With him were six brother-farmers, all of them very sober; for father would have no company with any man who went beyond half-a-gallon of...
Chapter XII: A Man justly popular
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW although Mr Faggus was so clever, and generous, and celebrated, I know not whether, upon the whole, we were rather proud of him as a member of our family, or inclined to be ashamed of him. And indeed I think that the sway of...
Chapter XIII: Master Huckaback comes in
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

MR REUBEN HUCKBACK,* whom many good folk in Dulverton will remember long after my time, was my mother’s uncle, being indeed her mother’s brother. He owned the very best shop in the town, and did a fine trade in soft ware, especially ...
Chapter XXVIII: John has Hope of Lorna
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

MUCH as I longed to know more about Lorna, and though all my heart was yearning, I could not reconcile it yet with my duty to mother and Annie, to leave them on the following day, which happened to be a Sunday. For lo, before...
Chapter XXXVI: John returns to Business
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW November was upon us, and we had kept Allhallowmass, with roasting of skewered apples (like so many shuttlecocks), and after that, the day of Fawkes, as became good Protestants, with merry bonfires and burned batatas, and plenty of good feeding in honour of our...
Chapter XLVII: Jeremy in Danger
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOTHING very long abides; as the greatest of all writers (in whose extent I am for ever lost in raptured wonder, and yet for ever quite at home, as if his heart were mine, although his brains so different), in a word, as Mr William...
Chapter LIV: Mutual Discomfiture
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT must not be supposed that I was altogether so thick-headed as Jeremy would have made me out. But it is part of my character that I like other people to think me slow, and to labour hard to enlighten me, while all the time...
Chapter LVII: Lorna knows her Nurse
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

HAVING obtained from Benita Odam a very close and full description of the place where her poor mistress lay, and the marks whereby to know it, I hastened to Watchett the following morning, before the sun was up, or any people were about. And so,...