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XXXIV: Market-Day in Perugia
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Perugia, on its lofty hill-top, was reached by the two travellers before the sun had quite kissed away the early freshness of the morning. Since midnight, there had been a heavy rain, bringing infinite refreshment to the scene of verdure and fertility amid which...
L: Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The gentle reader, we trust, would not thank us for one of those minute elucidations, which are so tedious, and, after all, so unsatisfactory, in clearing up the romantic mysteries of a story. He is too wise to insist upon looking closely at the...
Book XII
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

‘I Was brought up in my father’s house with an affection and kindness that I have come to admire much more since I have known men. I have had no deeper love than that for my father, and yet it seems...
Chapter VIII: Daggers Drawn
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The two young men, having seen the damsels, their charges, enter the courtyard of the Nuns’ House, and finding themselves coldly stared at by the brazen door-plate, as if the battered old beau with the glass in his eye were insolent, look at one...
From Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
Authors: Carroll Lewis
Published: December 2020

Everything was happening so oddly that she didn’t feel a bit surprised at finding the Red Queen and the White Queen sitting close to her, one on each side: she would have liked very much to ask them how they came there, but she feared...
On a New Kind of Rays (1895)
Authors: Conrad Roentgen Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

If the discharge of a fairly large induction-coil be made to pass through a Hittorf vacuum-tube, or through a Lenard tube, a Crookes tube,* or other similar apparatus, which has been sufficiently exhausted, the tube being covered with thin, black card-board which fits...
To a Locomotive in Winter (1876)
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: December 2020

Thee for my recitative,

Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,

Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,

Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,

Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods,...
An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
Authors: Chadwick Sir Edwin
Published: December 2020

The following extracts will serve to show, in the language chiefly of eye-witnesses, the varied forms in which disease attendant on removable circumstances appears from one end of the island to the other amidst the population of rural villages, and of the smaller towns, as...
Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867)
Authors: Lister Sir Joseph
Published: December 2020

Decomposition or putrefaction has long been known to be a source of great mischief in surgery, and antiseptic applications have for several years been employed by many surgeons. But the full extent of the evil, and the paramount importance of adopting effectual measures against it,...
Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884)
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Every week, The Lancet offered reports on European medical conferences. Most, like this essay on Koch, were unsigned. This article describes Robert Koch’s presentation at a cholera conference sponsored by the Imperial Board of Health in Berlin starting 26 July 1884 (two weeks...
The Stolen Bacillus (1895)
Authors: Wells H. G.
Published: December 2020

‘This again,’ said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, ‘is preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera—the cholera germ.’

The pale-faced man peered down the microscope. He was evidently not accustomed to that kind of thing, and held a limp white hand...
From She (1887)
Authors: Rider Haggard Henry
Published: December 2020

There were also some women among them, who, instead of the leopard-skin, wore a tanned hide of a small red buck, something like that of the oribé,* only rather darker in colour. These woman were, as a class, exceedingly good-looking, with large, dark...
From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874)
Authors: B. Carpenter William
Published: December 2020

Influence of the Will on Bodily Movement

‘I am, I ought, I can, I will,’ are (as has been recently well said) the only firm foundation-stones on which we can base our attempt to climb into a higher sphere of existence. The first...
From Elements of Phrenology (1824)
Authors: Combe George
Published: December 2020

It is ascertained by experiment and observation, that the form of the brain can be discovered, in individuals, in perfect health, and under the middle period of life, by inspecting the cranium.

The Phrenologist compares cerebral development with the manifestations of mental power, for the...
From Mesmerism in India (1847)
Authors: Esdaile James
Published: December 2020

Before submitting to the reader the results of my observations on somnambulism, I beg leave to prefix the following summary of the appearances recognised as distinctive of the somnambulistic state in Europe. It is given in the British and Foreign Medical Review, already quoted:—‘Somnambulism is...
From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832)
Authors: ‘Culloch J. R. M
Published: December 2020

HORSE, a domestic quadruped of the highest utility, being by far the most valuable acquisition made by man among the lower animals.

There is a great variety of horses in Britain. The frequent introduction of foreign breeds, and their judicious mixture, having greatly...
Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves’ Language (1879)
Authors: Horsley J. W.
Published: December 2020

The following autobiography is both authentic and true. I have had many opportunities of testing its truth in various ways during a friendship of some eighteen months, during which the writer has been pursuing the less exciting and less lucrative occupation of a teetotal costermonger....
From East London (1899)
Authors: Besant Walter
Published: December 2020

In East London, novelist and social reformer Walter Besant (1836–1901) offers middle-class readers fictional portraits of social ‘types’. While none are intended to represent actual persons, Besant attempts to make them as realistic as possible, based on his own contacts with London’s poor....
17
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, alone at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo* died; but by-and-by you only regret that you didn’t see him do it.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

July 4.—Statistics show that we lose...
19
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

Dawson’s
Landing...
20
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman: if you have witnesses you will find she did it...
2
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The family sat in the breakfast-room waiting for the twins to come down. The widow was quiet, the daughter was alive with happy excitement. She said:

‘Ah, they’re a boon, ma, just a boon! don’t you think so?’

‘Laws, I hope so, I don’t...
4
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Rowena was dining out, Joe and Harry were belated at play, there were but three chairs and four persons that noon at the home dinner-table—the twins, the widow, and her chum, Aunt Betsy Hale. The widow soon perceived that Angelo’s spirits were as low...
Chapter V
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Six weeks have now elapsed since Miss Milner has been in London, partaking with delight in all its pleasures, whilst Dorriforth has been sighing with apprehension, attending with precaution, and praying with the most zealous fervour for her safety.—Her own and her guardian’s acquaintance,...
Chapter I
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Miss Milner arrived at Bath, she thought it the most altered place she had ever seen—she was mistaken—it was she herself, who was changed.

The walks were melancholy, the company insipid, the ballroom fatiguing—in fine, she had left behind, all that could charm or...
Chapter X
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After this incident, Miss Woodley left her own apartments less frequently than before—she was afraid, though till now mistrust had been a stranger to her heart, she was afraid duplicity might be concealed under the apparent friendship of Rushbrook; it did not indeed appear...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

This melancholy incident perhaps affected Matilda and all the friends of the deceased Lady Elmwood, beyond any other that had occurred since her death.—A few days after this circumstance, Miss Woodley, in order to divert the disconsolate mind of Lady Matilda, (and perhaps bring...
Chapter III
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Lord Elmwood had now allowed Rushbrook a long vacation, in respect to his answer upon the subject of marriage; and the young man vainly imagined, his lordship’s intentions upon that subject were entirely given up.—One morning however, as he was attending him in the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was not with Sandford, as it had lately been with Rushbrook under the displeasure of Lord Elmwood—to the latter his lordship behaved, as soon as their dissention was over, as if it had never happened—but to Sandford it was otherwise; and that resentment...
Chapter XII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Rushbrook was detained at Elmwood House during all this time, more from the friendly persuasions, nay even prayers, of Sandford, than by the commands of Lord Elmwood. He had, but for Sandford, followed his uncle and exposed himself to his severest anger, rather than...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

For a right understanding of the life of my dear friend, Charlotte Brontë, it appears to me more necessary in her case than in most others, that the reader should be made acquainted with the peculiar forms of population and society amidst which her...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The moors were a great resource this spring; Emily and Charlotte walked out on them perpetually, ‘to the great damage of our shoes, but I hope, to the benefit of our health.’* The old plan of school-keeping was often discussed in these...
Chapter I
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

During this summer of 1846, while her literary hopes were waning, an anxiety of another kind was increasing. Her father’s eyesight had become seriously impaired by the progress of the cataract which was forming. He was nearly blind. He could grope his way about,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

I have always been much struck with a passage in Mr Forster’s Life of Goldsmith.* Speaking of the scene after his death, the writer says:—

‘The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been filled with mourners, the reverse of domestic; women without...
• Chapter 2 • The Science of Deduction
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street,* of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms* and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully...
• Chapter 6 • A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson MD
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Our prisoner’s furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself powerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. ‘I guess you’re...
• Chapter 7 • The Conclusion
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony. A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where...
The Events of Eight Days
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. From the twenty-second to the twenty-seventh of July

But things are not what they seem. A responsive love for Edward Springrove had made its appearance in Cytherea’s bosom with all the fascinating attributes of a first experience—not succeeding to or displacing other emotions,...
The Events of One Day
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. August the eighth. Morning and afternoon

At post time on that following Monday morning, Cytherea watched so anxiously for the postman, that as the time which must bring him narrowed less and less her vivid expectation had only a degree less tangibility than...
The Events of Eighteen Days
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. From the third to the nineteenth of September

Miss Aldclyffe’s tenderness towards Cytherea, between the hours of her irascibility, increased till it became no less than doting fondness. Like Nature in the tropics, with her hurricanes and the subsequent luxuriant vegetation effacing their...
The Events of One Day
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. The fifth of January. Before dawn

We pass over the intervening weeks. The time of the story is thus advanced exactly three months and twenty-four days.

On the midnight preceding the morning which would make her the wife of a man whose presence...
The Events of Eighteen Hours
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. March the twenty-ninth. Noon

Exactly seven days after Edward Springrove had seen the man with the bundle of straw walking down the streets of Froominster, old Farmer Springrove was standing on the edge of the same pavement, talking to his friend Farmer Baker....
Chapter XIV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

As the last chapter was begun with a reminder looking forward, so the present must consist of one glancing backward.

To some, it may raise a degree of surprise that one so full of confidence, as the merchant has throughout shown himself, up to the...
CHAPTER XLV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the middle of the gentlemen’s cabin burned a solar lamp,* swung from the ceiling, and whose shade of ground glass was all round fancifully variegated, in transparency, with the image of a homed altar* from which flames rose, alternate...
The Moral Reformers
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

There was no disguising the defeat. The victory was to Prout, but they grudged it not. If he had broken the rules of the game by calling in the Head, they had had a good run for their money.

The Reverend John sought the earliest...
Slaves of the Lamp Part II
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

That very Infant who told the story of the capture of Boh* Naghee1 to Eustace Cleever, novelist, inherited an estateful baronetcy, with vast revenues, resigned the service, and became a landholder, while his mother stood guard over him to see...
Chapter I
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris;* and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months....
4
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

Late one afternoon a carriage drew up in front of the house at Fontenay. Since Des Esseintes received no visitors, since the postman dared not even set foot within those unfrequented precincts, having neither newspaper, nor journal, nor letter to deliver there, the servants hesitated,...
8
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

He had always adored flowers, but this passion which, during his visits to Jutigny, had at first included all flowers without distinction of species or genera, had eventually narrowed itself down, fixing on one single family.

For many years now he had despised the common...
10
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

In the course of that singular malady which wreaks havoc on exhausted family blood lines, the crises are followed by periods of sudden calm; without being able to understand why, one fine morning Des Esseintes woke up in excellent health; no more gut-wrenching cough, no...
11
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

The servants hurried off in alarm to fetch the Fontenay doctor, who could make nothing whatever of Des Esseintes’s condition. He stammered out a few medical terms, felt the patient’s pulse, examined his tongue, tried in vain to make him speak, prescribed sedatives and rest,...
The Canterbury Pilgrims
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The summer moon, which shines in so many a tale, was beaming over a broad extent of uneven country. Some of its brightest rays were flung into a spring of water, where no traveller, toiling, as the writer has,* up the hilly...
Endicott and the Red Cross
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

At noon of an autumnal day, more than two centuries ago,* the English colours were displayed by the standard-bearer of the Salem trainband, which had mustered for martial exercise under the orders of John Endicott. It was a period when the religious...
The Christmas Banquet
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

[From the unpublished ‘Allegories of the Heart’.]*

I Have here attempted,’ said Roderick,* unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-house,—‘I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides...
Chapter III
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Aurora’s relatives were not slow to exclaim upon the change for the worse which a twelvemonth in Paris had made in their young kinswoman. I fear that the Demoiselles Lespard suffered considerably in reputation amongst the circle round Felden Woods from Miss Floyd’s impaired...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The first week in July brought James Conyers, the new trainer, to Mellish Park. John had made no particular inquiries as to the man’s character of any of his former employers, as a word from Mr Pastern was all-sufficient.

Mr Mellish had endeavoured to discover...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘We are on the verge of a precipice,’ Talbot Bulstrode thought, as he prepared for dinner in the comfortable dressing-room allotted to him at Mellish,—‘we are on the verge of a precipice, and nothing but a bold grapple with our difficulties can save...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When he had told Mrs Tristram the story of his fruitless visit to Madame de Cintré she urged him not to be discouraged, but to carry out his plan of ‘seeing Europe’ during the summer—after which he might return to Paris for the autumn...
XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had not, on his return to Paris, resumed the study of French conversation with M. Nioche; he had been conscious of too many other uses for his time. That amiable man, however, came to see him very promptly, having ascertained his whereabouts by...
XIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The next time Newman came to the Rue de l’Université he had the good fortune to find Madame de Cintré alone. He arrived with a definite intention and lost no time in applying it, for she wore even to his impatience an expectant, waiting...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Valentin’s ironic forecast of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile and his irreverent reflexion on the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave a catastrophe received a practical commentary in the fact that M. Nioche was slow to seek another...
Tales of My Landlord
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Collected and Reported by

JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM*

Schoolmaster and Parish-Clerk of Gandercleugh*

Introduction

As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Campbell*

During the severe skirmish of which we have given the details, Morton, together with Cuddie and his mother, and the Reverend Gabriel Kettledrummle, remained on...
Chapter XX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Hardyknute*

Colonel Grahame of Claverhouse met the family, assembled in the hall of the Tower, with the same serenity and...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Marlow*

The cavalcade which left the Castle of Tillietudlem, after passing the outposts of the insurgents, halted at the small town of Bothwell for a few minutes, to take...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Fletcher*

Evening had fallen; and, for the last two hours, they had seen none of their ill-fated companions, when Morton and his faithful attendant gained the moorland,...
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Spenser*

As the morning began to appear on the mountains, a gentle knock was heard at the door of the humble...
Chapter 2
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Now that the Vesper shades are darkening our eyes,

Enamoured of the future, I contemplate the skies,

Where God inscribes for us in simple features

The fates and destinies of all his creatures.

For He who is from Heaven’s heights all-seeing

And moved by pity...
Chapter 5
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

This whole adventure had lasted less than a minute; Fabrice’s wounds were not serious; they bandaged his arm with strips of the colonel’s shirt. They wanted to fix up a bed for him on the first floor of the inn:

‘But while I’m up here...
Chapter 9
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Fabrice’s soul was in a state of exaltation from the old man’s words, from the profound attention with which he had listened, and from his extreme fatigue. He found it very difficult to fall asleep, and his sleep was disturbed by dreams, perhaps portents of...
Chapter 22
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

During the course of the day Fabrice was assailed by some serious and unpleasant thoughts, but as he heard the hours strike that brought him closer to the moment of action, he felt cheerful and ready to begin. The Duchess had written to him that...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She had gone to Mrs Lowder on her mother’s death—gone with an effort the strain and pain of which made her at present, as she recalled them, reflect on the long way she had travelled since then. There had been nothing else to do—not...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The two ladies who, in advance of the Swiss season, had been warned that their design was unconsidered, that the passes wouldn’t be clear, nor the air mild, nor the inns open—the two ladies who, characteristically, had braved a good deal of possibly interested...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was extraordinary enough that he should actually be finding himself, when Thursday arrived, none so wide of the mark. Kate hadn’t come all the way to this for him, but she had come to a good deal by the end of a quarter...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When
Kate and Densher abandoned her to Mrs Stringham on the day of her meeting them together and bringing them to luncheon, Milly, face to face with that companion, had had one of those moments in which the warned, the anxious fighter of the...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It had at least made the difference for them, they could feel, of an informed state in respect to the great doctor, whom they were now to take as watching, waiting, studying, or at any rate as proposing to himself some such process before...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Not yet so much as this morning had she felt herself sink into possession; gratefully glad that the warmth of the Southern summer was still in the high florid rooms, palatial chambers where hard cool pavements took reflexions in their lifelong polish, and where...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

There was at last, with everything that made for it, an occasion when he got from Kate, on what she now spoke of as his eternal refrain, an answer of which he was to measure afterwards the precipitating effect. His eternal refrain...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was after they had gone that he truly felt the difference, which was most to be felt moreover in his faded old rooms*. He had recovered from the first a part of his attachment to this scene of contemplation, within sight,...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He didn’t go home, on leaving her—he didn’t want to; he walked instead, through his narrow ways and his campi with gothic arches, to a small and comparatively sequestered café where he had already more than once found refreshment and comparative repose,...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The difference was thus that the dusk of afternoon—dusk thick from an early hour—had gathered when he knocked at Mrs Condrip’s door. He had gone from the church to his club, wishing not to present himself in Chelsea at luncheon-time and also remembering that...
Chapter III The Same Subject Continued
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

Bodily strength from being the distinction of heroes is now sunk into such unmerited contempt that men, as well as women, seem to think it unnecessary: the latter, as it takes from their feminine graces, and from that lovely weakness the source of their undue...
Chapter VII Modesty—Comprehensively Considered, And Not As A Sexual Virtue
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

Modesty! Sacred offspring of sensibility and reason!—true delicacy of mind!—may I unblamed presume to investigate thy nature, and trace to its covert the mild charm, that mellowing each harsh feature of a character, renders what would otherwise only inspire cold admiration—lovely!—Thou that smoothest the wrinkles...
Chapter XII On National Education
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

The good effects resulting from attention to private education will ever be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand to the plow, will always, in some degree, be disappointed, till education becomes a grand national concern. A man cannot retire into...
Book I, Chapter I
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

When we contemplate the infancy of man, his gradual advance towards maturity, his miserable weakness as a solitary being, and the crudeness of his first notions respecting the nature of civil society, it will not appear extraordinary, that the acquirement of political knowledge has been...
The Musgrave Ritual
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was...
The Naval Treaty
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I find them recorded in my notes under the headings of ‘The...
The Light that Failed chapter 2
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘I’m not angry with the...
Stellenbosch
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(Composite Columns)*
The Changelings
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(R.N.V.R.)*
Little Brother and Little Sister
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Little
Brother took his Little Sister by the hand and said: ‘Ever since our mother died, we have not had one good hour; our stepmother beats us every day, and when we go to her she kicks us away. The hard leftover crusts of...
Old Sultan
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A farmer once had a faithful dog called Sultan, who had grown old and had lost all his teeth, so he was no longer able to grip anything fast. One day the farmer was standing at the door of their house talking to...
Hans in Luck
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Hans had served his master for seven years, so he said to him: ‘Master, my time is up, and now I would like to go back home to my mother; give me my wages.’ His master answered: ‘You have served me faithfully and honestly,...
The Fox and the Geese
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

The fox once came to a meadow where a flock of fine, fat geese were sitting. He laughed and said: ‘I’ve come just at the right moment. Here you are sitting pretty, all of you; I can eat you all up, one after the...
The Wilful Child
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a wilful child who did nothing his mother wanted.

That is why the Good Lord took no delight in him and let him become ill. No doctor was able to help him, and in a short time he was lying on his...
Iron John
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a king who had a great forest near his palace, teeming with all kinds of game. One day he sent out a huntsman to shoot a roe deer, but the huntsman never returned. ‘Perhaps he has met with some mishap,’ said...
The Stolen Farthing
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A father was sitting at table one midday with his wife and children, and a good friend who had come on a visit was eating with them. And as they were sitting there it struck twelve, and the stranger saw the door open...
The Golden Key
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Once, in the winter-time, when deep snow was lying on the ground, a poor lad had to go out and fetch wood on a sledge. After he had gathered it and loaded the sledge, he was frozen so cold that he had no wish...
Our Lady’s Goblet
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A Drayman’s cart, which was heavily laden with wine, was once stuck so fast that, for all his efforts, he could not pull it clear. Now just at that moment Our Lady came along that way, and when she saw the poor man’s...
Chapter VIII mentor and telemachus
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It is now some time since we left Mr Blyth and Madonna in the studio. The first was engaged, it may be remembered, in the process of brushing up Bacchanalian Nymphs in the foreground of a Classical landscape. The second was modestly...
Chapter VII the box of letters
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first thing Mat did when he got to his lodgings, was to fill and light his pipe. He then sat down on his bear-skins, and dragged the box close to him which he had brought from Dibbledean.

Although the machinery of Mat’s mind was...
Chapter XII the hair bracelet
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mr
Blyth’s spirits sank apace, as he bolted and locked the front door, when his guests had left him. He actually sighed as he now took a turn or two alone, up and down the studio.

Three times did he approach close to the garden...
Chapter XIV mary’s grave
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Matthew
Grice was a resolute traveller; but no resolution is powerful enough to alter the laws of inexorable Time-Tables to suit the convenience of individual passengers. Although Mat left Rubbleford in less than an hour after he had arrived there, he only succeeded in...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A fewdays after the Baroness Münster had presented herself to her American kinsfolk she came, with her brother, and took up her abode in that small white house adjacent to Mr Wentworth’s own dwelling of which mention has already been made. It was on...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr wentworth, with his cane and his gloves in his hand, went every afternoon to call upon his niece. A couple of hours later she came over to the great house to tea. She had let the proposal that she should regularly dine there...
X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The first Sunday that followed Robert Acton’s return from Newport witnessed a change in the brilliant weather that had long prevailed. The rain began to fall and the day was cold and dreary. Mr Wentworth and his daughters put on overshoes and went to...
Thor Bridge
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co.,* at Charing Cross,* there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, MD, Late Indian Army,* painted upon the lid. It is...
The Illustrious Client
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It can’t hurt now,’ was Mr Sherlock Holmes’s comment J. when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in...
The Veiled Lodger
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

When one considers that Mr Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to co-operate with him and to keep notes of his doings, it will be clear that I have a mass of...
Chapter IV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Our two friends moved through a little orchard, where the aged...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Our young friend, Lovel, who had received...
Chapter XII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

With our readers’ permission, we...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Miss
Isabella
Wardour’...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The night set in stormy, with wind and occasional showers...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Francis
Macraw, agreeably to the commands...
Advertisement
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The Author of this little Work cannot, in the anxious moment of committing it to its fate, refuse herself the indulgence of expressing some portion of the gratitude with which she is filled, by the highly favourable reception given to her TWO former...
Chapter II: Comic Gambols
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Delighted with this acquisition to his household, Sir Hugh again revived. ‘My dear brother and sister,’ he cried, when next the family visited Cleves, ‘this proves the most fortunate step I have ever taken since I was born. Camilla’s a little jewel;...
Chapter I: New Projects
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The baronet would, at length, have enjoyed perfect contentment, had he not been molested by the teasing spirit of Miss Margland, now daily at work in proposing a journey to London, and in representing as an indispensable duty, that the young ladies should see...
Chapter III: A Family Breakfast
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

In their way home, Edgar apologised to Camilla for again foregoing the promised pleasure of dancing with her, by explaining the situation of the Ensign.

Camilla, internally persuaded that any reason would suffice for such an arrangement, where Indiana was its object, scarce listened to...
Chapter XII: Two Doctors
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

A Council was now held upon what course must next be taken. Both Sir Hugh and Eugenia were too much fatigued to walk any further; yet it was concluded that the garden chair, by some mistake, was gone straight to the cottage. Edgar,...
Chapter XIII: Two Ways of looking at the same Thing
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

When the party arrived at Cleves, Camilla, who had observed that Edgar seemed much disappointed by the breaking up of the cottage expedition, proposed that it should take place in the evening; and her uncle, though too much fatigued to venture out again himself,...
Chapter I: A few kind Offices
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

With deep concern Edgar revolved in his mind the suggestions of Dr. Marchmont; and meditation, far from diminishing, added importance to the arguments of his friend. To obtain the hand of an object he so highly admired, though but lately his sole wish, appeared...
Chapter II: A Pro and a Con
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

With a pen flowing quick from feelings of the most generous warmth, Edgar wrote the following letter:

To Dr. Marchmont.

Accuse me not of precipitance, my dear Doctor, nor believe me capable of forgetting the wisdom of your suggestions, nor of lightly weighing those...
Chapter V: An Author’s Opinion of Visiting
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

When summoned to tea, Camilla, upon entering the parlour, found Sir Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the non-appearance of Dr. Orkborne. Edgar felt a momentary disappointment that she did not honour his flowers with wearing them; but consoled himself with supposing she...
Chapter VI: Strictures on Beauty
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

To lengthen the airing, Mr. Tyrold ordered the carriage by a new road; and to induce Eugenia to break yet another spell, in walking as well as riding, he proposed their alighting, when they came to a lane, and leaving the coach in waiting...
Chapter VIII: The disastrous Buskins
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla, though her personal sorrows were blunted by the view of the calamities and resignation of her sister, was so little disposed for amusement, that she had accepted the invitation of Mrs. Arlbery, only from wanting spirit to resist its urgency. Mr. Tyrold was...
Chapter VIII: A Youth of the Times
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Arlbery accompanied Camilla the next day to Cleves, to ask permission of Mr. Tyrold for the excursion. She would trust the request to none but herself, conscious of powers of persuasion unused to repulse.

Mr. Tyrold was distressed by the proposition: he was...
Chapter III: Mount Ephraim
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

This expected guest arrived early. Camilla received her with the only sensation of pleasure she had experienced at Tunbridge. Yet what she excited seemed still stronger: the fair stranger besought her friendship as a solace to her existence, and hung upon her as upon...
Chapter IV: Knowle
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The last words of Camilla to Mandlebert, in quitting Cleves, and the tears with which he saw her eyes overflowing, had annihilated all his resentment, and left him no wish but to serve her. Her distinction between what was wisest and what was kindest,...
Chapter VIII: Ways to the Heart
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

All pleasure to Camilla was completely over from the moment that Edgar disappeared.

When she returned to Mount Pleasant, Mrs. Arlbery, whom she found alone, said, ‘Did I not understand that you were going to dance with Mr. Mandlebert? How chanced he to leave you?...
Chapter IX: Counsels for Conquest
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Fortunately for Camilla, no eye was upon her at this period but that of Mrs. Arlbery; her changed countenance, else, must have betrayed still more widely her emotion. Mrs. Arlbery saw it with real concern, and saying she had something to consult her about,...
Chapter XVI: An Helper
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The next morning, as Camilla had accompanied Mrs. Arlbery, in earnest discourse, from her chamber to the hall, she heard the postman say Miss Tyrold as he gave in a letter. She seized it, saw the hand-writing of Lionel, and ran eagerly into the...
Chapter I: The right Style of Arguing
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla was received with the most tender joy by all her family, again re-assembled at Cleves to welcome the return of young Lynmere, who was expected every hour. Sir Hugh, perfectly recovered from his late illness, and busy, notwithstanding all remonstrance, in preparation for...
Chapter II: A Council
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The next morning, Camilla, eager to try once more her influence with her brother, accompanied him into the park, and renewed her remonstrances, but with no better success; and while they were passing by a private gate, that opened to the high road, they...
Chapter IX: Offs and Ons
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tyrold left Eugenia to her sisters, unwilling to speak of Lynmere till he had seen something more of him. Sir Hugh, also, was going, for he had no time, he said, to lose in his preparations: but Eugenia, taking his arm,...
Chapter III: A Pleasant Adventure
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla was again called upon for her note, before she had read the letter it was to answer; but relieved now from the pressure of her own terrifying apprehensions, she gave it complete and willing attention.

It contained four sides of paper, closely yet...
Chapter VI: Ideas upon Marriage
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

While, in the bosom of her faithful sister, Camilla reposed her feelings and her fears, alternately rejoicing and trembling in the temerity of the resolution she had exerted; Edgar sought his not less faithful, nor honourable, but far more worldly friend, Dr. Marchmont.

He...
Chapter IX: A Scuffle
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Eugenia failed not to observe her appointment the next morning, which was devoted to elegiac poetry. A taste so similar operated imperceptibly upon Mrs. Berlinton, who detained her till she was compelled to return to prepare for a great ball at the public rooms;...
Chapter X: A Youthful Effusion
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla now thought herself safe in harbour; the storms all over, the dangers all past, and but a light gale or two wanting to make good her landing on the bosom of permanent repose. This gale, this propitious gale, she thought ready to blow...
Chapter III: An Adieu
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Lost to all happiness, and for the first time in her life, divested of hope, Camilla at a late hour returned to Mrs. Berlinton’s. And here, her heart-breaking disappointment received the cruel aggravation of the most severe self-reproach, when, in facing the...
Chapter IV: A modest Request
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Quick, though without a wish of speed, was the return home of Camilla; she felt at this moment in that crushed and desolate state, where the sudden extinction of hope leaves the mind without energy to form even a wish. She was quick only...
Chapter VII: Brides and no Brides
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

In the hall of the Cleves mansion the party from Southampton were received by Sir Hugh, Mr. Tyrold, and Lavinia. The baronet greeted in particular the two nieces he regarded as brides elect, with an elation that prevented him from observing their sadness; while...
Chapter II: A Narrative
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

It was four o’clock in the morning when Melmond returned. Camilla rushed to the street-door to meet him. His silence and his mournful air announced his ill success. She wrung her hands in anguish, and besought him to send instantly an express to Etherington,...
Chapter IV: Hints upon National Prejudice
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

With mingled disquietude and distaste, Melmond saw the reluctance of Indiana to quit town, and that he was less than a cypher with her upon the last evening’s assembly, where, without deigning to bestow one look upon him, she chatted, smiled, and...
Chapter V: The Operation of Terror
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Lady Isabella, for the first two or three miles, left Camilla uninterruptedly to her own thoughts; she then endeavoured to engage her in some discourse, but was soon forced to desist. Her misery exceeded all measure of restraint, all power of effort. Her Father...
Chapter XIV: The last Touches of the Picture
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Late as Edgar quitted the rectory, he went not straight to Beech Park; every tie both of friendship and propriety carried him first to Dr. Marchmont; who had too much feeling to wonder at the power of his late incitements, and too much goodness...
Chapter X
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The indictment ran as follows:

‘On the 17th of January 188—, the proprietor of the Hotel Mauritania in this town gave notice to the police of the sudden death, which had occurred in his hotel, of Therapont Smelkov, a Second Guild merchant from Siberia.

‘The...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When the padlock rattled and the door opened to let Maslova into the cell, all turned towards her. Even the deacon’s daughter stopped for a moment and looked at Maslova with lifted brows, but, without saying a word, resumed her energetic striding...
Chapter XL
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

And none of those present, from the inspector down to Maslova, seemed conscious of the fact that this Jesus, whose name the priest repeated such a great number of times, whom he praised with all these curious expressions, had forbidden the very things that...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Nekhlyudov returned he found that the office had been arranged as a bedroom for him. A high bedstead with a feather bed and two large pillows had been placed in the room. The bed was covered with a large dark-red silk quilt, elaborately...
Chapter IX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was morning before Nekhlyudov could fall asleep, and therefore he woke late. At noon seven men, chosen from among the peasants and invited by the bailiff, came into the orchard, where, under the apple trees, the bailiff had arranged a table and benches...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov awoke next morning feeling as if he had been guilty of some iniquity the day before. He began considering. He could not remember having done anything wrong, he had committed no evil act. But he had had evil thoughts. He had thought that...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Before Nekhlyudov got out he had noticed several elegant equipages in the station yard, some with three, some with four well-fed horses with tinkling bells on their harness. When he stepped out on the dark, wet boards of the platform, he saw a group...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When, following Katusha, Nekhlyudov returned to the men’s room he found everyone in a state of excitement. Nabatov, who went about everywhere, got to know everybody, and noticed everything, had just brought news which staggered them all. The news was that he had discovered,...
Little Britain
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

What I write is most true ... I have a whole booke of cases lying by me, which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients (within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me.

Nashe*

In the centre...
The Pride of The Village
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Herrick*

In. the course of an...