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XIV. Another Link to Life
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Had not returned to my master’s house since the birth of my child. The old man raved to have me thus removed from his immediate power; but his wife vowed, by all that was good and great, she would kill me if...
XXII. Christmas Festivities
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Christmas was approaching. Grandmother brought me materials, and I busied myself making some new garments and little playthings for my children. Were it not that hiring day is near at hand, and many families are fearfully looking forward to the probability of separation in...
XXX. Northward Bound
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Never could tell how we reached the wharf. My brain was all of a whirl, and my limbs tottered under me. At an appointed place we met my uncle Phillip, who had started before us on a different route, that he might...
XXXII. The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

When we arrived in New York, I was half crazed by the crowd of coachmen calling out, “Carriage, ma’am?” We bargained with one to take us to Sullivan Street for twelve shillings. A burly Irishman stepped up and said, “I’ll tak’ ye for sax...
XXXIX. The Confession
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

For two years my daughter and I supported ourselves comfortably in Boston. At the end of that time, my brother William offered to send Ellen to a boarding school. It required a great effort for me to consent to part with her, for I...
Chapter VI Waverley’s Reception in the Lowlands after his Highland Tour
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of Bally-Brough. “I must go no farther,” said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who during this journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend’s spirits. “If my cross-grained sister has any share...
Chapter XVIII The Mystery begins to be cleared up
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

“How do you like him?” was Fergus’s first question, as they descended the large stone staircase.

“A prince to live and die under,” was Waverley’s enthusiastic answer.

“I knew you would think so when you saw him, and I intended you should have met...
Chapter XXI The March
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose. He was dreaming of Glennaquoich, and had transferred to the halls of Ian nan Chaistel the festal train which so lately graced those of Holy-Rood. The pibroch too...
Chapter XXIII Dulce Domum
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The impression of horror with which Waverley left Carlisle, softened by degrees into melancholy, a gradation which was accelerated by the painful, yet soothing, task of writing to Rose; and, while he could not suppress his own feelings of the calamity, by endeavouring to...
Chapter XI: We Give a Sign
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

For a long while—two hours, I should think—we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we had seen to talk. At last, just as we were thinking of turning in—for already there were faint streaks of...
Three and—an Extra
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

When halter and heel-ropes are slipped, do not give chase with sticks but with gram.°

After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a big, sometimes a little one; but it comes sooner or later, and must be tided over by both parties...
Dayspring Mishandled
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

In the days beyond compare and before the Judgments, a genius called Graydon° foresaw that the...
Merrow Down
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

I
The Coiner
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(To be sung by the unlearned to the tune of ‘King John and the Abbot of Canterbury,’ and by the learned to‘Tempest-a-brewing.’)
Chapter VI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The conversation, which was at a high pitch of animation when Silas approached the door of the Rainbow, had, as usual, been slow and intermittent when the company first assembled. The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an...
Chapter VII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Yet the next moment there seemed to be some evidence that ghosts had a more condescending disposition than Mr Macey attributed to them; for the pale thin figure of Silas Marner was suddenly seen standing in the warm light, uttering no word, but looking...
Chapter X
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Justice
Malam was naturally regarded in Tarley and Raveloe as a man of capacious mind, seeing that he could draw much wider conclusions without evidence than could be expected of his neighbours who were not on the Commission of the Peace.* Such...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was after the early supper-time at the Red House, and the entertainment was in that stage when bashfulness itself had passed into easy jollity, when gentlemen, conscious of unusual accomplishments, could at length be prevailed on to dance a hornpipe, and when the...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

There was a pauper’s burial that week in Raveloe, and up Kench Yard at Batherley it was known that the dark-haired woman with the fair child, who had lately come to lodge there, was gone away again. That was all the express note taken...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Some
one opened the door at the other end of the room, and Nancy felt that it was her husband. She turned from the window with gladness in her eyes, for the wife’s chief dread was stilled.

‘Dear, I’m so thankful you’re come,’ she said,...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Between eight and nine o’clock that evening, Eppie and Silas were seated alone in the cottage. After the great excitement the weaver had undergone from the events of the afternoon, he had felt a longing for this quietude, and had even begged Mrs Winthrop...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next morning, when Silas and Eppie were seated at their breakfast, he said to her—

‘Eppie, there’s a thing I’ve had on my mind to do this two year, and now the money’s been brought back to us, we can do it. I’ve been...
Chapter III
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Very stout, puffy man, in buckskins and hessian boots, with several immense neckcloths, that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple-green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the morning costume of...
Chapter IX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ir
Pitt
Crawley was a philosopher with a taste for what is called low life. His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents ; and as he often told Lady Crawley in...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

at is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another’s behalf ? As Alexis,* after a few passes from Dr. Elliotson, despises...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

onsiderabletime has elapsed since we have seen our respectable friend, old Mr. Osborne of Russell Square. He has not been the happiest of mortals since last we met him. Events have occurred which have not improved his temper, and in more instances than...
Chapter LX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Good fortune now begins to smile upon Amelia. We are glad to get her out of that low sphere in which she has been creeping hitherto, and introduce her into a polite circle, not so grand and refined as that in which our...
Chapter LXVII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Whatever Becky’s private plan might be by which Dobbin’s true love was to be crowned with success, the little woman thought that the secret might keep, and indeed, being by no means so much interested about anybody’s welfare as about her own, she...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The following week, when Madame Deberle returned Madame Grandjean’s visit, she showered affection upon her. And in the doorway as she was leaving:

‘You know you promised... The first fine day you come down to our garden and bring Jeanne with you. Doctor’s orders.’
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Leaning back in his armchair, Malignon stretched out his legs before the roaring fire and waited patiently. He’d gone to the lengths of closing the curtains and lighting the candles. The first room where he was sitting was brightly illuminated with a little chandelier...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Two years had gone by. One December morning the little cemetery was sleeping in the bitter cold. It had been snowing since the day before, a fine snow whipped up by the north wind. The snowflakes, rarer now, were falling soft and light as...
Chapter IV An Author and his Wife
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Eight flights of stairs, consisting alternately of eight and nine steps. Amy had made the calculation, and wondered what was the cause of this arrangement. The ascent was trying, but then no one could contest the respectability of the abode. In the flat immediately...
Chapter VII Marian’s Home
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Three weeks after her return from the country — which took place a week later than that of Jasper Milvain — Marian Yule was working one afternoon at her usual place in the Museum Reading-room. It was three o’clock, and with the interval of half an hour at...
Chapter X The Friends of the Family
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

It was natural that Amy should hint dissatisfaction with the loneliness in which her days were mostly spent. She had never lived in a large circle of acquaintances; the narrowness of her mother’s means restricted the family to intercourse with a few old friends...
Chapter XV The Last Resource
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

The past twelve months had added several years to Edwin Reardon’s seeming age; at thirty-three he would generally have been taken for forty. His bearing, his personal habits, were no longer those of a young man; he walked with a stoop and pressed noticeably...
Chapter XVIII The Old Home
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Before her marriage Mrs Edmund Yule was one of seven motherless sisters who constituted the family of a dentist slenderly provided in the matter of income. The pinching and paring which was a chief employment of her energies in those early days had disagreeable...
Chapter XX The End of Waiting
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

It was more than a fortnight after Reardon’s removal to Islington when Jasper Milvain heard for the first time of what had happened. He was coming down from the office of the Will-o’-the-Wisp one afternoon, after a talk with the editor concerning...
Chapter XXII The Legatees
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Each day Jasper came to inquire of his sisters if they had news from Wattleborough or from Marian Yule. He exhibited no impatience, spoke of the matter in a disinterested tone; still, he came daily.

One afternoon he found Dora working alone. Maud, he was...
Chapter XXIX Catastrophe
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Marian had finished the rough draft of a paper on James Harrington, author of ‘Oceana.’ Her father went through it by the midnight lamp, and the next morning made his comments. A black sky and sooty rain strengthened his inclination to sit...
Chapter XXXI A Rescue and a Summons
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen. They merely provoke you. They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. You are made angrily contemptuous...
J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

In the month of December in the year 1873, the British ship Dei
Gratia* steered into Gibraltar, having in tow the derelict brigantine Marie Celeste,* which had been picked up in latitude 38° 40´, longitude 17°...
The Ring of Thoth
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Mr
John
Vansittart
Smith, Frs, of 147A Gower Street,* was a man whose energy of purpose and clearness of thought might have placed him in the very first rank of scientific observers. He was the victim, however, of a...
The Striped Chest
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

What do you make of her, Allardyce?’ I asked.

My second mate was standing beside me upon the poop, with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it, and our two quarter-boats* nearly touched the...
The Leather Funnel
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

M
y friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris.* His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass plot in front of it, on the left-hand side as you pass down from the Arc de Triomphe....
The Silver Mirror
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

J
an. 3.— This affair of White and Wotherspoon’s accounts proves to be a gigantic task. There are twenty thick ledgers to be examined and checked. Who would be a junior partner? However, it is the first big bit of business which has been...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Every day she made him sit at the window in the cool hours of the morning. He was beginning to try to walk a few steps, supporting himself on the furniture. His cheeks were now tinged with pink, and his hands had lost their...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Oh! I knew it!’ said Albine, with a cry of utter despair. ‘I begged you to take me away... Serge, I implore you, don’t look!’

Serge went on looking in spite of himself, standing rooted to the ground in front of the gap. Down below,...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Abbé
Mouret slept like a log. When he opened his eyes, rather later than usual, he found his face and hands bathed in tears; he had wept all night long in his sleep. He did not say Mass that morning. In spite of his...
Henry and Eliza
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Is humbly dedicated to Miss Cooper* by her obedient Humble Servant

As Sir George and Lady Harcourt were superintending the Labours of their Haymakers, rewarding the industry of some by smiles of approbation,* & punishing the idleness of others, by...
[Scraps]
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

To Miss Fanny Catherine Austen*

My dear Neice

As I am prevented by the great distance between Rowling & Steventon* from superintending Your Education Myself, the care of which will probably on that account devolve on your Father & Mother, I think...
The Story of the Three Bears
Authors: Southey Robert
Published: December 2020

A tale which may content the minds

Of learned men and grave philosophers.*

GASCOYNE

Ince upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood. One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear;...
The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo: A Fire-Side Pantomime for Great and Small Children
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Prelude

It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children.*

In that city, if you wanted to give a child’s party, you could not even get a magic lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters...
The Golden Key
Authors: MacDonald George
Published: December 2020

The was a boy who used to sit in the twilight and listen to his great-aunt’s stories.

She told him that if he could reach the place where the end of the rainbow stands he would find there a golden key.

‘And what is the...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

During the bitter winter of 1860 the River Oise* froze over and heavy snowfall covered the plains of Lower Picardy, and on Christmas Day a blizzard blew out of the north-east and almost buried the town of Beaumont. The snow, which had...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That same evening, just as she was leaving the table, Angélique said she was feeling very unwell, and went up to her bedroom. The emotional turmoil of the morning and the struggle with her own feelings had left her exhausted. She went straight to...
Chapter 13
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Angélique was dying. It was ten o’clock on a crisp, clear morning towards the end of winter, and the sun was glittering in a pale sky. She lay motionless in the great royal bed hung with antique pink chintz, and had not regained consciousness...
Chapter 14
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The wedding was set for early March. Angélique was still very weak, although joy radiated from her whole being. At first she had wanted to go back down to the workroom, in the very first week of her convalescence, and seemed stubbornly intent on...
5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For a moment, Pascal stood looking at the files, piled up in what seemed to be an enormous heap, thrown together randomly as they were over the long table that took up the middle of the workroom. In the jumble, several of the blue...
7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That day, when she reached La Souleiade, old Madame Rougon spotted Martine in the vegetable garden planting leeks; and, making the most of the opportunity, she headed straight for the servant to have a chat and drag information out of her before stepping into...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When the evening was at an end, Kitty told her mother about her conversation with Levin, and despite all the pity she felt for Levin, she was thrilled by the thought that someone had proposed to her. She was in no doubt...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky followed the conductor to the carriage and paused at the door of the compartment to make way for a lady coming out. With the customary tact of a society man, Vronsky ascertained with one glance at this lady’s appearance that she belonged to...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Early in the morning after the ball, Anna Arkadyevna sent her husband a telegram to say she was leaving Moscow that same day.

‘No, I must go, I really must,’ she said, explaining her change of plan to her sister-in-law, in a tone implying she...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, it’s all over, and thank heavens for that!’ was the first thought which occurred to Anna Arkadyevna when she said goodbye for the last time to her brother, who stood blocking the way into the carriage until the third bell.*...
32
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The first person to meet Anna at home was her son. He leapt down the stairs, despite the cries of his governess, and with a wild delight shrieked: ‘Mama, Mama!’ He ran up to her and hung on her neck.

‘I told you it was...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There is essentially just one circle in Petersburg high society; everybody knows one another and even calls on one another. But this large circle has its subdivisions. Anna Arkadyevna Karenina had friends and close ties in three different circles. One circle was the official...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna was playing with the tassels of her hood as she walked, her head bent. Her face radiated a bright glow, but it was not a merry glow—it was reminiscent of the terrible glow of a conflagration in the middle of a dark night....
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The place where the woodcock would be roding was not far beyond the stream, in a little aspen grove. When they arrived at the wood, Levin got out and led Oblonsky to a corner of a mossy, swampy glade which was already free from...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The downpour did not last long, and by the time Vronsky drove up at a full trot, the shaft horse pulling the trace horses as they galloped through the mud without reins, the sun had come out again, the dacha roofs and the old...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Vronsky looked at his watch on the Karenins’ balcony, he was so agitated and wrapped up in his own thoughts that he saw the hands on the face, but could not work out what time it was. He went out on to the...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Everyone was loudly expressing their disapproval, everyone kept repeating a phrase someone had said: ‘It will be lions and gladiators next,’ and the horror was felt by everyone, so when Vronsky fell and Anna gave a loud gasp, it was nothing out of the...
33
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Kitty also made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl, and together with her friendship with Varenka, this acquaintance not only had a great influence on her, but also was a source of great comfort to her while she grieved. This comfort came from the fact...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Kitty writes that there is nothing she wants so much as peace and quiet,’ Dolly said after the silence that ensued.

‘So, has her health improved?’ Levin asked nervously.

‘She’s completely recovered, thank goodness. I never believed it was anything to do with her...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The night which Levin spent on the haystack had not passed without leaving its mark on him: he became disgusted with the agricultural work he had been doing and lost all interest in it. Despite the magnificent harvest, there had never been, or at...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After meeting Vronsky on his own doorstep, Alexey Alexandrovich drove, as he had intended, to the Italian Opera.* He sat through two acts and saw everyone he needed to see. Upon returning home, he carefully inspected the coat-stand and, perceiving no military...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Countess
Lydia
Ivanovna had been married off when she was a very young and ecstatic girl to a rich, aristocratic, extremely kind, and extremely dissipated bon-viveur. In the second month of the marriage her husband had abandoned her, responding to her ecstatic...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When they arrived in Petersburg, Vronsky and Anna stayed at one of the best hotels, Vronsky separately on the ground floor and Anna upstairs with the baby, the wet-nurse, and the maid, in a large suite consisting of four rooms.

On the day of their...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

However intensely Anna had desired a meeting with her son, and however long she had thought about it and prepared for it, she had definitely not expected this meeting to have such a powerful effect on her. For a long time after...
32
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Vronsky returned home, Anna was not yet back. Soon after he left, he was told, a lady had come to see her, and she had gone out with her. The fact that she had gone off without saying where she was going, and...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After escorting his wife upstairs, Levin went to Dolly’s part of the house. That day Darya Alexandrovna was in a state of great distress on her own account. She was pacing about the room and saying angrily to the little girl standing howling in...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘So please call on the Bohls,’ Kitty said to her husband when he came in to see her at eleven o’clock before going out. ‘I know you are dining at the club, Papa has signed you in. But what are you doing this...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The weather was clear. A fine, light drizzle had been falling all morning, and had just now cleared up. The iron roofs, the flagstones of the pavements, the cobblestones of the road, the wheels and leather, and the brass and tinplate of...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The bell rang; some ugly, brazen-faced young men walked past, hurrying yet also attentive to the impression they were making; Pyotr in his livery and gaiters also crossed the hall with a dim-witted, brutish face, and came up to her in order to escort...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Not knowing when he would be able to leave Moscow, Sergey Ivanovich had not wired his brother to arrange for someone to meet them. Levin was not at home when, towards midday, Katavasov and Sergey Ivanovich, covered with dust and looking like blackamoors, drove...
Chapter IV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘It is not so much the fire, sir,’ said Mr. Bingley of the Abbey farm to Egremont, ‘but the temper of the people that alarms me. Do you know, sir, there were two or three score of them here, and, except my own...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

We must now for a while return to the strangers of the Abbey ruins. When the two men had joined the beautiful Religious, whose apparition had so startled Egremont, they all three quitted the Abbey by a way which led them by the back...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

It was a cloudy, glimmering dawn. A cold withering east wind blew through the silent streets of Mowbray. The sounds of the night had died away, the voices of the day had not commenced. There reigned a stillness complete and absorbing.

Suddenly there is a...
Chapter I
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

The last rays of the sun, contending with clouds of smoke that drifted across the country, partially illumined a peculiar landscape. Far as the eye could reach, and the region was level, except where a range of limestone hills formed its distant limit, a...
Chapter IV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Wodgate, or Wogate, as it was called on the map, was a district that in old days had been consecrated to Woden, and which appeared destined through successive ages to retain its heathen character. At the beginning of the revolutionary war, Wodgate was a...
Chapter I
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Are you going down to the house, Egerton?’ enquired Mr. Berners at Brookes’ of a brother M. P., about four o’clock in the early part of the spring of 1839.

‘The moment I have sealed this letter; we will walk down together, if you like;’...
Chapter V
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘His lordship has not yet rung his bell, gentlemen.’

It was the valet of Lord Milford that spoke, addressing from the door of a house in Belgrave Square, about noon, a deputation from the National Convention,* consisting of two of its delegates,...
Chapter VII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

When Gerard and Morley quitted the Albany after their visit to Egremont, they separated, and Stephen, whom we will accompany, proceeded in the direction of the Temple, in the vicinity of which he himself lodged, and where he was about to visit a brother...
Chapter X
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘You can’t have that table, sir, it is engaged,’ said a waiter at the Athenæum* to a member of the club who seemed unmindful of the type of appropriation which in the shape of an inverted plate, ought to have warned...
Chapter V
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Agitated and overcome by these unexpected and passionate appeals, and these outrageous ebullitions acting on her at a time when she herself was labouring under no ordinary excitement, and was distracted with disturbing thoughts, the mind of Sybil seemed for a moment to desert...
Chapter VI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Urged by Sybil’s entreaties the cab-driver hurried on. With all the skilled experience of a thorough cockney charioteer he tried to conquer time and space by his rare knowledge of short cuts and fine acquaintance with unknown thoroughfares. He seemed to avoid...
Chapter VII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

On the same night that Sybil was encountering so many dangers, the saloons of Deloraine House blazed with a thousand lights to welcome the world of power and fashion to a festival of almost unprecedented magnificence. Fronting a royal park, its long lines of...
Chapter IX
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Night waned: and Sybil was at length slumbering. The cold that precedes the dawn had stolen over her senses, and calmed the excitement of her nerves. She was lying on the ground, covered with a cloak of which her kind hostess had prevailed on...
Chapter II
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Two days after this conversation in Downing Street, a special messenger arrived at Marney Abbey from the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine. Immediately after reading the despatch of which he was the bearer, there was a great bustle in the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

The reader may not have altogether forgotten Mr. Nixon and his comates, the miners and colliers of that district not very remote from Mowbray, which Morley had visited at the commencement of this history, in order to make fruitless researches after a gentleman whom...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Life’s a tumbleabout thing of ups and downs,’ said Widow Carey stirring her tea, ‘but I have been down this time longer than I can ever remember.’

‘Nor ever will get up, Widow,’ said Julia at whose lodgings herself and several of Julia’s...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Barton Park was about half a mile from the cottage. The ladies had passed near it in their way along the valley, but it was screened from their view at home by the projection of an hill. The house was large and handsome; and...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Dashwood’s visit to Lady Middleton took place the next day, and two of her daughters went with her; but Marianne excused herself from being of the party under some trifling pretext of employment; and her mother, who concluded that a promise had been...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Within a few days after this meeting, the newspapers announced to the world, that the Lady of Thomas Palmer, Esq. was safely delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edward, having carried his thanks to Colonel Brandon, proceeded with his happiness to Lucy; and such was the excess of it by the time he reached Bartlett’s Buildings, that she was able to assure Mrs. Jennings, who called on her again the next day...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself. She now found, that in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that...
Chapter Three
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Much to his surprise, Maurice saw that the 106th was getting off at Rheims and being given orders to set up camp there. So they weren’t going on to Châlons to join up with the army after all? Two hours later, when his regiment had...
Lady Mason and her Son
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I trust that it is already perceived by all persistent novel readers that very much of the interest of this tale will be centred in the person of Lady Mason. Such educated persons, however, will probably be aware that she is not intended...
The Cleeve
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I have said that Sir Peregrine Orme was not a rich man, meaning thereby that he was not a rich man considering his acknowledged position in the county. Such men not uncommonly have their tens, twelves, and twenty thousands a year; but Sir...
Sir Peregrine Makes a Second Promise
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We left Lady Mason very grateful at the end of the last chapter for the promise made to her by Sir Peregrine with reference to her son; but there was still a weight on Lady Mason’s mind. They say that the pith of a...
The Commercial Room, Bull Inn, Leeds
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Samuel Dockwrath was a little man, with sandy hair, a pale face, and stone-blue eyes. In judging of him by appearance only and not by the ear, one would be inclined to doubt that he could be a very sharp attorney abroad and...
The Masons of Groby Park
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Groby Park is about seven miles from Leeds, in the direction of Bradford, and thither on the morning after the scene described in the last chapter Mr Dockwrath was driven in one of the gigs belonging to the Bull Inn. The park itself is...
A Morning Call at Mount Pleasant Villa
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following day Lady Mason made two visits, using her new vehicle for the first time. She would fain have walked had she dared; but she would have given terrible offence to her son by doing so. He had explained to her, and...
The Angel of Light
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In speaking of the character and antecedents of Felix Graham I have said that he was moulding a wife for himself. The idea of a wife thus moulded to fit a man’s own grooves, and educated to suit matrimonial purposes according to the exact...
Peregrine’s Eloquence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the last chapter Peregrine Mason* called at Orley Farm with the view of discussing with Lucius Mason the conduct of their respective progenitors; and, as will be remembered, the young men agreed in a general way that their progenitors were about to...
Oh, Indeed!
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The dinner on that day at The Cleeve was not very dull. Peregrine had some hopes that the idea of the marriage might be abandoned, and was at any rate much better disposed towards Lady Mason than he had been. He spoke to her,...
John Kenneby’s Courtship
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘She’s as sweet a temper, John, as ever stirred a lump of sugar in her tea,’ said Mrs Moulder to her brother, as they sat together over the fire in Great St Helen’s on that same evening, — after his return from Hamworth. ‘That she is, — and...
Showing How Things Went On at Noningsby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Yes, Lady Staveley had known it before. She had given a fairly correct guess at the state of her daughter’s affections, though she had not perhaps acknowledged to herself the intensity of her daughter’s feelings. But the fact might not have mattered if it...
How Sir Peregrine Did Business with Mr Round
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the mean time Sir Peregrine was sitting at home trying to determine in what way he should act under the present emergency, actuated as he was on one side by friendship and on the other by duty. For the first day or two — nay...
What the Four Lawyers Thought About It
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I have spoken of the state of public opinion as to Lady Mason’s coming trial, and have explained that for the most part men’s thoughts and sympathies took part with her. But I cannot say that such was the case with the thoughts of...
The First Journey to Alston
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At that time Sir Richard Leatherham was the Solicitor-general, and he had been retained as leading counsel for the prosecution. It was quite understood by all men who did understand what was going on in the world, that this trial had been in truth...
Chapter III
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now driven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did; and also to let down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright, (for the night was fine) came in her course to that space in...
Chapter X
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced—the bridal day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. I, at least, had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed,...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Comtesse Sabine, as people were in the habit of calling Madame Muffat de Beuville, so as to distinguish her from the count’s mother who had died the year before, was ‘at home’ every Tuesday in her town house in the Rue Miromesnil*...
Chapter 12
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Around one in the morning, in the big bed draped in Venetian lace, Nana and the count were not yet asleep. He had come back the evening before after sulking for three days. The bedroom, lit by a dim lamp, was slumbering, warm and...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The question whether Mr Tyke should be appointed as salaried chaplain to the hospital was...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was in that way Dorothea came to be sobbing as soon as she was securely alone. But she was presently roused by a knock at...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious events at Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me this pregnant...
Chapter LXII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Will
Ladislaw’s mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again, and forthwith quitting Middlemarch. The morning after his agitating scene with Bulstrode he wrote...
Chapter LXX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Bulstrode’s first object after Lydgate had left Stone Court was to examine Raffles’s pockets, which he imagined were sure to carry signs in the...
Finale
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the...
Book IV. Varennes.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Easter at Saint-Cloud.

The French Monarchy may now therefore be considered as, in all human probability, lost; as struggling henceforth in blindness as well as weakness, the last light of reasonable guidance having gone out. What remains of resources their poor Majesties...
All by Electricity
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

‘Dr
Aronnax,’ said Captain Nemo, pointing to the instruments hanging on the walls of his room, ‘these are the instruments needed for sailing the Nautilus. Here, as in the salon, I have them always in view, telling me my position and...
The Black River
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The area of the terrestrial globe covered by water is estimated to be 383,255,800 square kilometres, or more than 38 million hectares.* This liquid mass occupies 2,250 million cubic miles and would form a sphere of 60 leagues diameter, whose weight would...
Torres Strait
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

During the night of 27–8 December the Nautilus left the shores of Vanikoro at extraordinary speed. It headed south-west and within three days covered the 750 leagues from La Pérouse Island* to the south-eastern tip of New Guinea.

Very early on 1 January 1868,...
The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The blue sea par excellence, the ‘Great Sea’ of the Hebrews, ‘the Sea’ of the Greeks, the mare nostrum of the Romans.* Bordered by orange trees, aloes, cacti, maritime pines, embalmed in the perfume of myrtle trees, framed by severe...
Not Enough Air
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

So all around the Nautilus, above and below, was an impenetrable wall of ice. We were prisoners of the ice-cap. The Canadian struck the table with his tremendous fist. Conseil remained silent. I looked at the captain. His face had resumed its...
Sixth Narrative
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Contributed by
Sergeant
Cuff

Dorking, Surrey, July 30th, 1849. To Franklin Blake, Esq. Sir,—I beg to apologise for the delay that has occurred in the production of the Report, with which I engaged to furnish you. I have waited to make it a complete...
Chapter VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Keeping my private sentiments to myself, I respectfully requested Mr Franklin to go on. Mr Franklin replied, ‘Don’t fidget, Betteredge,’ and went on.*

Our young gentleman’s first words informed me that his discoveries, concerning the wicked Colonel and the Diamond, had begun with a...
Chapter X
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

One on the top of the other the rest of the company followed the Ablewhites, till we had the whole tale of them complete. Including the family, they were twenty-four in all. It was a noble sight to see, when they were settled in...
Chapter XV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The Sergeant remained silent, thinking his own thoughts, till we entered the plantation of firs which led to the quicksand. There he roused himself, like a man whose mind was made up, and spoke to me again.

‘Mr Betteredge,’ he said, ‘as you have honoured...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first words, when we had taken our seats, were spoken by my lady.

‘Sergeant Cuff,’ she said, ‘there was perhaps some excuse for the inconsiderate manner in which I spoke to you half an hour since. I have no wish, however, to claim that...
Chapter VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The foregoing correspondence will sufficiently explain why no choice is left to me but to pass over Lady Verinder’s death with the simple announcement of the fact which ends my fifth chapter.

Keeping myself for the future strictly within the limits of my own personal...
Chapter I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My fair friend, Miss Clack, having laid down the pen, there are two reasons for my taking it up next, in my turn.

In the first place, I am in a position to throw the necessary light on certain points of interest which have thus...
Fourth Narrative
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings

1849.—June 15th . . . . With some interruption from patients, and some interruption from pain, I finished my letter to Miss Verinder in time for to-day’s post. I failed to make it as short a letter as I...
My Escape from Slavery.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Closing incidents of my ‘life as a slave’—reasons why full particulars of the manner of my escape will not be given—craftiness and malice of slaveholders—suspicion of aiding a slave’s escape about as dangerous as positive evidence—want of wisdom shown in publishing details of the escape...
Introduced to the Abolitionists.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

First speech at Nantucket—Much sensation—Extraordinary speech of Mr Garrison—Author becomes a public lecturer—Fourteen years’ experience—Youthful enthusiasm—A brand new fact—Matter of the author’s speech—He could not follow the programme—His fugitive slaveship doubted—To settle all doubt he writes his experience of slavery—Danger of recapture increased.

In...
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.

On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B. I dine between twelve and one o’clock;*...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

What vain weather-cocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable—I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his ordinary employments, and, therefore, remaining about the house, I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as heretofore.

She got down stairs before me, and out into...
LETTER III.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs.
Saville, England.

my dear sister,

I write a few lines in haste, to say that I am safe, and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a merchant-man now on its homeward voyage...
Chapter III.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the...
Chapter IV.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

It was on a dreary night of November,* that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life* around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into...
Chapter 4
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘And whose very snug-looking Place is this?’—said Charlotte, as in a sheltered Dip within two miles of the Sea, they passed close by a moderate-sized house, well fenced and planted, and rich in the Garden, Orchard and Meadows which are the best embellishments...
Chapter I: The Rassendylls — With a Word on the Elphbergs
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I wonder when in the world you’re going to do anything, Rudolf?’ said my brother’s wife.

‘My dear Rose,’ I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, ‘why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly...
Chapter III: A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I was not so unreasonable as to be prejudiced against the duke’s keeper because he disliked my complexion; and if I had been, his most civil and obliging conduct (as it seemed to me to be) next morning would have disarmed me. Hearing that...
Chapter VI: The Secret of a Cellar
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We were in the king’s dressing-room—Fritz von Tarlenheim, Sapt, and I. I flung myself exhausted into an armchair. Sapt lit his pipe. He uttered no congratulations on the marvellous success of our wild risk, but his whole bearing was eloquent of satisfaction. The triumph,...
Chapter VII: His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I put my arm round Sapt’s waist and supported him out of the cellar, drawing the battered door close after me. For ten minutes or more we sat silent in the dining-room. Then old Sapt rubbed his knuckles into his eyes, gave one great...
Chapter VIII: A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A real king’s life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king’s is, I warrant, much harder. On the next day, Sapt instructed me in my duties—what I ought to do and what I ought to know—for three hours; then I snatched breakfast,...