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Chapter I
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

By cauk and keel to win your bread,

Wi’ whigmaleeries for them wha need,

Whilk is a gentle trade indeed

Few have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable...
Chapter IV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Through tops of the high trees she did descry

A little smoke, whose vapour, thin, and light,

Reeking aloft, uprolled to the sky,

Which cheerful sign did send unto her sight,

That in the same did wonne some living wight.

Lucy acted...
Chapter XI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Let them have meat enough, woman—-half a hen;

There be old rotten pilchards—put them off too;

’Tis but a little new anointing of them,

And a strong onion, that confounds the savour.

The thunderbolt, which had stunned all who were within...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Sir, stay at home and take an old man's counsel;

Seek not to bask you by a stranger's hearth;

Our own blue smoke is warmer than their fire,

Domestic food is wholesome, though ‘tis homely,

And foreign dainties poisonous, though tasteful.
Chapter XXI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

marall. Sir, the man of honour's come,

Newly alighted——

overreach. In without reply,

And do as I command.——

Is the loud music I gave order for

Ready to receive him?——

Sir William Ashton, although a man of...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Why, now I have Dame Fortune by the forelock,

And if she escapes my grasp, the fault is mine;

He that hath buffeted with stern adversity,

Best knows to shape his course to favouring breezes.

Our travellers reached Edinburgh without any...
8. In Which Passepartout Speaks Perhaps a Little More Freely Than He Should
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Fix had quickly caught up with Passepartout on the quayside, who was strolling and looking about him, since he personally did not feel obliged to see nothing.

‘Well, my friend,’ said Fix. ‘Is your passport now stamped?’

‘Oh! It’s you, sir,’ answered the Frenchman. ‘Much...
26. In Which We Catch a Pacific Railroad Express
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

‘Ocean to ocean,’ say the Americans—and this should logically be the name of the grand trunk line that crosses America at its widest point. But in reality, the Pacific Railroad is divided into two distinct parts: the Central Pacific from San...
31. In Which Inspector Fix Takes Phileas Fogg’s Interests Very Seriously
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Phileas
Fogg was twenty hours behind schedule. Passepartout, the involuntary cause of the delay, was in a state of despair. He had ruined his master!

At this moment the inspector came up to Mr Fogg, and looking him straight in the eye:

‘Seriously, sir, are...
32. In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Fight Against Ill-Fortune
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The
China seemed to have carried away Phileas Fogg’s last hope with it.

None of the other steamships plying between America and Europe were of any use. Neither the French liners, nor the ships of the White Star Line,* nor the steamers of...
What is the People?
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

—And who are you that ask the question? One of the people. And yet you would be something! Then you would not have the People nothing. For what is the People? Millions of men, like you, with hearts beating in their bosoms, with...
The Fight
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

…Our present business was to get beds and a supper at an inn; but this was no easy task. The public-houses were full, and where you saw a light at a private house, and people poking their heads out of the casement to...
Self-Love and Benevolence
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

You deny, I think, that personal identity, in the qualified way in which you think proper to admit it, is any ground for the doctrine of self-interest?

* Yes, in an exclusive and absolute sense I do undoubtedly, that is, in the...
My First Acquaintance with Poets
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

My father was a Dissenting Minister at W—m* in Shropshire; and in the year 1798 (the figures that compose that date are to me like the ‘dreaded name of Demogorgon’)* Mr Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr Rowe in...
Fragments on Art. Why the Arts are not Progressive?
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

I

It is often made a subject of complaint and surprise, that the arts in this country, and in modern times, have not kept pace with the general progress of society and civilisation in other respects, and it has been proposed to remedy the...
The Veteran
Authors: Crane Stephen
Published: December 2020

Out of the low window could be seen three hickory trees placed irregularly in a meadow that was resplendent in springtime green. Farther away, the old, dismal belfry of the village church loomed over the pines. A horse meditating in the shade of one...
Chapter X
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

“If I am going to explain our way of shopping to you,” said my companion, as we walked along the street, “you must explain your way to me. I have never been able to understand it from all I have read on the...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

A heavy rainstorm came up during the day, and I had concluded that the condition of the streets would be such that my hosts would have to give up the idea of going out to dinner, although the dininghall I had understood to be...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

“I T’s a little after the time you told me to wake you, sir. You did not come out of it as quick as common, sir.”

The voice was the voice of my man Sawyer. I started bolt upright in bed and stared around....
7. A woman’s fine life-story
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

From a village on the most distant frontier of Lorraine, at the foot of the Vosges, three brothers called Fischer, conscripted by the Republic,* set off to join the so-called Army of the Rhine.

In 1799 the second of the brothers, André, a widower...
10. Bette’s admirer
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Hortense’s laughter at this moment was occasioned by a victory she had won over Cousin Bette’s obstinacy. She had just surprised her into making a confession she had been trying to obtain for three years.

However secretive an old maid may be, one feeling will...
17. An exile’s story
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

In 1833 Mademoiselle Fischer, who sometimes worked at night when she had a lot to do, about one o’clock in the morning smelt carbonic acid and heard the moans of a dying man.

The smell of charcoal and the death-rattle came from an attic above...
22. Let girls have their way
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘Well, what on earth are you doing in there?’ the father asked his daughter.

‘I have spent my twelve hundred francs’ savings. Let’s go.’

She took her father’s arm again, as he repeated. ‘Twelve hundred francs!’

‘Thirteen hundred, in fact. But you’re going to...
31. Caliban’s last attempt to keep Ariel
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At seven o’clock Lisbeth was already on an omnibus on her way home, for she was longing to see Wenceslas, whose dupe she had been for about three weeks; she was bringing him her basket piled high with fruit by Crevel himself, whose affection for...
40. One of the seven plagues of Paris
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

In the Marneffe household, Cousin Bette had the position of a relative who has combined the duties of companion and housekeeper. But she did not experience the double humiliation which, most of the time, afflicts the poor creature unfortunate enough to have to accept these...
48. A scene befitting a porter’s lodge
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

On leaving Valérie, Hulot had gone downstairs to the porter’s lodge and appeared without warning before Madame Olivier.

‘Madame Olivier?’

On hearing this imperious summons and seeing the gesture which reinforced it, Madame Olivier came out of her lodge and went as far as the...
49. Second scene of clever feminine play-acting
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Madame Marneffe came in and saw her husband playing cards with Crevel and the Baron; there were only the three of them in the drawing-room. Merely from the civic dignitary’s appearance she realized all the thoughts that had been agitating him and she decided immediately...
77. The impudence of one of the five fathers
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

In Paris, every ministry is like a little town from which women have been banished. But gossip and calumny go on as if the feminine population were there. After three years, Monsieur Marneffe’s position had been, as it were, clarified, exposed to the light of...
95. The brother’s dressing-down
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Marshal Hulot drove home with his brother, who sat in the front seat of the carriage, respectfully leaving the inside to his older brother.

The two brothers did not exchange a word. Hector was shattered. The Marshal was absorbed in his thoughts, like
96. A fine funeral
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At half past twelve, Lisbeth showed the lawyer and Count Steinbock into her dear Marshal’s study; she was so alarmed at the changes that were taking place in him that she had stayed there with him.

‘Monsieur le Comte,’ said the Marshal, ‘I request you...
105. Liquidation of the firm of Thoul and Bijou
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Josépha got up, rummaged about among the rare flowers in her flower-stands, and made a charming, lovely bouquet for the Baroness, whose expectations, we may say, were entirely disappointed.

Like those good bourgeois who take men of genius for monsters, eating, drinking, walking, and talking...
107. Another devil
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

While the Baroness was visiting Josépha, Victorin was seeing in his study an old woman of about 75. In order to gain admission to the celebrated lawyer, she had made use of the terrible name of the chief of police.

The servant announced, ‘Madame de...
118. Vengeance strikes Valérie
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Two days later, those of du Tillet’s guests who had ruthlessly torn Madame Marneffe’s reputation to shreds were sitting at her table, an hour after she had turned over a new leaf by changing her name for the glorious name of a Mayor of Paris....
123. Crevel’s last words
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Lorraine peasant thought she ought to go into Crevel’s room, where she found Victorin and his wife sitting three paces away from the diseased man’s bed.

‘Lisbeth,’ he said, ‘they’re concealing my wife’s condition from me. You’ve just seen her. How is she?’

‘She’s...
131. In praise of forgetting
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lisbeth, already quite wretched at the good fortune that was shining on the family, could not withstand this happy event. She became so much worse that Bianchon gave her no more than a week to live; she was conquered at the end of that long...
How Pinocchio is caught by a peasant, who makes him take the place of the guard-dog for his hen-house.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As you can imagine, Pinocchio began to cry and shriek and implore; but his tears and cries were useless, for thereabouts there were no houses to be seen and not a living soul was going along the road.

Meanwhile it was getting dark.

Partly...
How, instead of becoming a boy, Pinocchio secretly goes away with his friend Candle-Wick to the ‘Land of Toys’.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As was only natural, Pinocchio promptly asked the Fairy for permission to go round the village inviting the guests.

The Fairy said to him, ‘Certainly you may go to invite your classmates for the meal tomorrow, but remember to come home before it gets dark....
XI: Fragmentary Sentences
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In the Borghese grove, so recently uproarious with merriment and music, there remained only Miriam and her strange follower.

A solitude had suddenly spread itself around them. It perhaps symbolized a peculiar character in the relation of these two, insulating them, and building up an...
XVI: A Moonlight Ramble
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The proposal for a moonlight ramble was received with acclamation by all the younger portion of the company. They immediately set forth and descended from story to story, dimly lighting their way by waxen tapers, which are a necessary equipment to those whose thoroughfare,...
XX: The Burial Chaunt
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The Church of the Capuchins (where, as the reader may remember, some of our acquaintances had made an engagement to meet) stands a little aside from the Piazza Barberini. Thither, at the hour agreed upon, on the morning after the scenes last described, Miriam...
XXII: The Medici Gardens
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Donatello,” said Miriam anxiously, as they came through the Piazza Barberini, “what can I do for you, my beloved friend? You are shaking as with the cold fit of the Roman fever!”

“Yes,” said Donatello. “My heart shivers.”

As soon as she could...
XXIV: The Tower Among the Apennines
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

It was in June, that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horseback at the gate of an ancient country-house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany, somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists....
XXXI: The Marble Saloon
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In an old Tuscan villa, a chapel ordinarily makes one among the numerous apartments; though it often happens that the door is permanently closed, the key lost, and the place left to itself, in dusty sanctity, like that chamber in man’s heart where he...
XLIII: The Extinction of a Lamp
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Between Hilda and the sculptor there had been a kind of half-expressed understanding, that both were to visit the galleries of the Vatican, the day subsequent to their meeting at the studio. Kenyon, accordingly, failed not to be there, and wandered through the vast...
XLV: The Flight of Hilda’S Doves
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Along with the lamp on Hilda’s tower, the sculptor now felt that a light had gone out, or, at least, was ominously obscured, to which he owed whatever cheerfulness had heretofore illuminated his cold, artistic life. The idea of this girl had been like...
Book I
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Oswald, Lord
Nelvil, peer of Scotland, set out from Edinburgh to go to Italy during the winter of 1794 to 1795. He had a distinguished, handsome face, was highly intelligent, bore a great name, and had independent means. A deep...
Book II
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Oswald awoke in Rome. Brilliant sunshine, Italian sunshine, met his eyes as soon as he opened them, and his heart was filled with loving gratitude for the heaven which seemed to reveal itself in these beautiful rays. He heard the bells ringing...
Book VII
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Lord
Nelvil was very anxious for Mr Edgermond to enjoy Corinne’s conversation, which was just as good as her improvised verses. The following day, the same company was gathered at her house, and to encourage her to speak, he brought the conversation...
Book XI
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Oswald was proud of carrying off his conquest. This time, he, who nearly always spoilt his enjoyment by reflections and regrets, no longer felt the pain of uncertainty. It was not that he had made up his mind, but he did not...
Book XIX
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Let us now return to what happened in Scotland the day following that sad festivity at which Corinne made such a painful sacrifice. Lord Nelvil’s servant gave him his letters at the ball. He went out to read them. He opened several...
From The Game of Logic (1886)
Authors: Otis Laura
Published: December 2020

Fallacies

And so you think, do you, that the chief use of Logic, in real life, is to deduce Conclusions from workable Premisses, and to satisfy yourself that the Conclusions, deduced by other people, are correct? I only wish it were! Society would be much...
From Daniel Deronda (1876)
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil; else why was the effect that of unrest...
From Frankenstein (1818)
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery...
From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865)
Authors: Bernard Claude
Published: December 2020

Vivisection

We have succeeded in discovering the laws of inorganic matter only by penetrating into inanimate bodies and machines; similarly we shall succeed in learning the laws and properties of living matter only by displacing living organs in order to get into their inner environment....
Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881)
Authors: James Paget Sir
Published: December 2020

It seems fair to demand that those who inflict pain or other distress on animals, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge, should be judged by the same rules as those who, for any other purposes, do the same.

The rules by which these are judged...
From Zoological Philosophy (1809)
Authors: Baptiste De Lamarck Jean
Published: December 2020

We are not here concerned with an argument, but with the examination of a positive fact—a fact which is of more general application than is supposed, and which has not received the attention that it deserves, no doubt because it is usually very difficult to...
From The Origin of Species (1859)
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Struggle for Existence

Before entering on the subject of this chapter, I must make a few preliminary remarks, to show how the struggle for existence bears on Natural Selection. It has been seen in the last chapter that amongst organic beings in a state of...
On the Physical Basis of Life (1869)
Authors: Henry Huxley Thomas
Published: December 2020

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term ‘Protoplasm,’ which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words ‘the physical basis of life.’ I suppose that, to many,...
From Mental Evolution in Man (1888)
Authors: John Romanes George
Published: December 2020

The present work being thus a treatise on human psychology in relation to the theory of descent, the first question which it must seek to attack is clearly that as to the evidence of the mind of man having been derived from mind as we...
The Birthmark (1846)
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He had...
From Bartleby the Scrivener (1856)
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in...
From The Lifted Veil (1859)
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me, though he was very careful in fulfilling what he regarded as a parent’s duties. But he was already past the middle of life, and I was not his only son....
From Elsie Venner (1861)
Authors: Wendell Holmes Oliver
Published: December 2020

It was the old story. A poor country-clergyman dies, and leaves a widow and a daughter. In Old England the daughter would have eaten the bitter bread of a governess in some rich family. In New England she must keep a school. So, rising from...
From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872)
Authors: Mitchell S. Weir
Published: December 2020

In studying this subject, it will not answer to look only at the causes of sickness and weakness which affect the male sex. If the mothers of a people are sickly and weak, the sad inheritance falls upon their offspring, and this is why I...
The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892)
Authors: Perkins Gilman Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much...
From Panopticon, or, The Inspection-House, &c (1791)
Authors: Bentham Jeremy
Published: December 2020

Preface

Morals reformed—health preserved—industry invigorated—instruction diffused—public burthens lightened—Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock—the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut, but untied—all by a simple idea in Architecture!——Thus much I ventured to say on laying down the pen—and thus much I should...
From Positive Philosophy (1853)
Authors: Comte Auguste
Published: December 2020

The first characteristic of the Positive Philosophy is that it regards all phenomena as subjected to invariable natural Laws. Our business is,—seeing how vain is any research into what are called Causes, whether first or final,—to pursue an accurate discovery of...
From Jude the Obscure (1895)
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Physically and intellectually attracted, Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead decide to live as husband and wife after withdrawing from unhappy marriages: he, to the barmaid Arabella Donn; she, to the schoolmaster Phillotson. Their gloomy eldest child, referred to here simply as ‘the boy’, is actually...
The Yellow Face (1894)
Authors: Conan Doyle Arthur
Published: December 2020

In the first part of the story, the desperate Mr Grant Munro has come to Sherlock Holmes, asking him to account for his wife’s strange behaviour. Effie, Munro’s wife of three years, has asked him for £100 of the money she brought to the marriage....
From The Nether World (1889)
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In this passage, John Snowdon is believed to be in possession of some money obtained in Australia. Sixteen-year-old Clem Peckover and her mother are scheming to take it away from him.

The bells of St James’s, Clerkenwell, ring melodies in intervals of the pealing for...
From The Heavenly Twins (1893)
Authors: Grand Sarah
Published: December 2020

The Heavenly Twins, one of the ‘new woman’ novels of the 1890s, follows the lives of three unhappily married women. Angelica, a tomboyish girl, impulsively marries a man twenty years her senior under the condition that he will let her do exactly as she...
From Dracula (1897)
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

This scene, narrated by the alienist John Seward, refers to the fourth blood transfusion administered to Lucy Westenra, who is being drained by Dracula. The donor is Quincey Morris, an American adventurer. Lucy’s fiancé Arthur Holmwood, Seward, and the senior scientist Van Helsing have already...
4
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

There is this trouble about special providences—namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the...
13
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks...
3
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

[After breakfast the whole village crowded in, and there was a grand reception in honor of the twins; and at the close of it the gifted ‘freak’ captured everybody’s admiration by sitting down at the piano and knocking out a classic four-handed piece in great...
6
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

[A deputation came in the evening and conferred upon Wilson the welcome honor of a nomination for mayor; for the village has just been converted into a city by charter. Tom skulks out of challenging the twins. Judge Driscoll thereupon challenges Angelo (accused by Tom...
Chapter II
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Dorriforth returned to London heavily afflicted for the loss of his friend, and yet perhaps with his thoughts more engaged upon the trust that friend had reposed in him. He knew the life Miss Milner had been accustomed to lead; he dreaded the repulses...
Chapter II
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

In a lonely country on the borders of Scotland, a single house by the side of a dreary heath, was the residence of the once gay, volatile Miss Milner—In a large gloomy apartment of this solitary habitation (the windows of which scarce rendered the...
Chapter V
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next morning, when Lord Elmwood and Sandford met at breakfast, Sandford was pale with fear for the success of Lady Elmwood’s letter—his lordship was pale too, but there was beside upon his face something which evidently marked he was displeased—Sandford observed it, and...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The companions and counsellors of Lord Margrave, who had so prudently advised gentle methods in the pursuit of his passion, while there was left any hope of their success; now, convinced there was none, as strenuously commended open violence;—and sheltered under the consideration, that...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The Rev. Patrick Brontë is a native of the County Down in Ireland.* His father Hugh Brontë, was left an orphan at an early age. He came from the south to the north of the island, and settled in the parish of...
Chapter VI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

This is perhaps a fitting time to give some personal description of Miss Brontë. In 1831, she was a quiet, thoughtful girl, of nearly fifteen years of age, very small in figure—‘stunted’ was the word she applied to herself,—but as her limbs and head...
Chapter XI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

I am not aware of all the circumstances which led to the relinquishment of the Lille plan. Brussels had had from the first a strong attraction for Charlotte; and the idea of going there, in preference to any other place, had only been...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next year opened with a spell of cold dreary weather, which told severely on a constitution already tried by anxiety and care. Miss Brontë describes herself as having utterly lost her appetite, and as looking ‘grey, old, worn and sunk,’* from...
Chapter X
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Soon after she returned home, her friend paid her a visit. While she stayed at Haworth, Miss Brontë wrote the letter from which the following extract is taken. The strong sense and right feeling displayed in it on the subject of friendship, sufficiently account...
• Chapter 3 • The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I confess that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the practical nature of my companion’s theories. My respect for his powers of analysis increased wondrously.* There still remained some lurking suspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing...
• Chapter 4 • What John Rance Had to Tell
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was one o’clock when we left No. 3, Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram. He then hailed a cab, and ordered the driver to take us to the address given us by...
• Chapter 3 • John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Three weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier’s heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man’s return, and of the impending loss of his adopted child. Yet her bright and...
The Events of Thirty Years
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. December and January, 1835–36

In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea* Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit.

In the above-mentioned year...
The Events of A Fortnight
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. The ninth of July

The day of their departure was one of the most glowing that the climax of a long series of summer heats could evolve. The wide expanse of landscape quivered up and down like the flame of a taper, as...
The Events of Twelve Hours
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. August the ninth. One to two o’clock, a.m.

Cytherea entered her bedroom, and flung herself on the bed, bewildered by a whirl of thought. Only one subject was clear in her mind, and it was that in spite of family discoveries, that day...
The Events of Five Days
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. November the twenty-ninth

The search was commenced at dawn, but a quarter past nine o’clock came without bringing any result. Manston partook of a little breakfast, and crossed the hollow of the park which intervened between the old and modern manor-houses, to ask...
The Events of One Day
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. March the thirteenth. Three to six o’clock, a.m.

They entered Mundsbury Station—the next but one to Froominster on the London side—in the dead, still time of early morning, the clock over the booking-office pointing to twenty-five minutes to three. Manston lingered on the...
The Events of Three Days
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. March the eighteenth

Sunday morning had come, and Owen was trudging over the six miles of hill and dale that lay between Palchurch and Carriford.

Edward Springrove’s answer to the last letter, after expressing his amazement at the strange contradiction between the verses,...
Epilogue
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Fifteen months have passed, and we are brought on to midsummer night,* one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

The picture presented is the interior of the old belfry of Carriford Church, at ten o’clock in the evening.

Eight Carriford men and one stranger are...
Chapter III
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish—the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of...
Chapter VII
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Next day they fell in with more sails, all circling slowly from the east northerly towards the west. But just when they expected to make the shoals by The Virgin the fog shut down, and they anchored, surrounded by the tinklings of invisible bells....
Chapter II
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Odd fish! ’

‘ Poor fellow ! ’

‘ Who can he he ? ’

‘ Casper Hauser.’*

‘ Bless my soul! ’

‘ Uncommon countenance.’

‘ Green prophet from Utah.’*

‘ Humbug! ’

‘ Singular innocence.’

‘ Means something.’

‘ Spirit-rapper.’...
Chapter IX
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

—‘ Pray, sir, have you seen a gentleman with a weed hereabouts, rather a saddish gentleman ? Strange where he can have gone to. I was talking with him not twenty minutes since.’

By a brisk, ruddy-cheeked man in a tasselled travelling-cap, carrying under...
CHAPTER XLIV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Quite
an
Original ’: a phrase, we fancy, rather oftener used by the young, or the unlearned, or the untravelled, than by the old, or the well-read, or the man who has made the grand tour. Certainly, the sense of originality exists...
‘In Ambush’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

In summer all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the College—little lairs whittled out of the heart of the prickly bushes, full of stumps, odd root-ends, and spikes, but, since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight. And for the fifth summer...
The Flag of their Country
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

It was winter and bitter cold of mornings. Consequently Stalky and Beetle—M‘Turk being of the offensive type that makes ornate toilet under all circumstances—drowsed till the last moment before turning out to call-over in the gas-lit gymnasium. It followed that they were often late;...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Before the autumn was at an end, and while the brown leaves still stood thick on the beeches in our park, my brother and Bertha were engaged to each other, and it was understood that their marriage was to take place early in the...
6
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

Sunk into a huge wing chair, his feet resting on the gilded, bulbous ends of the andirons, his slippers scorched by the logs which crackled and shot forth bright darts of flame as though whipped by a blowpipe’s fierce blast, Des Esseintes laid down upon...
13
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

The weather was becoming very unsettled; that year, the seasons were all mixed up; after the squalls and the fogs, blazing hot skies, like sheets of metal, appeared from over the horizon. In two days, without any transition whatever, the damp, chilly fogs and the...
The Grey Champion
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters* of all the colonies,...
Wakefield
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

IN some old magazine or newspaper,* I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man—let us call him Wakefield—who absented himself for a long time from his wife. The fact thus abstractedly stated is not very uncommon, nor—without a proper distinction of...
The Artist of the Beautiful
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

An elderly man, with his pretty daughter on his arm, was passing along the street, and emerged from the gloom of the cloudy evening into the light that fell across the pavement from the window of a small shop. It was a projecting window;...
Chapter V
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The house which the banker hired at Brighton for the month of October was perched high up on the East Cliff, towering loftily above the wind-driven waves; the outline of Beachy Head was dimly visible from the upper windows in the clear autumn mornings,...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
James
Conyers took his breakfast in his own apartment upon the morning after his visit to Doncaster, and Stephen Hargraves waited upon him; carrying him a basin of muddy coffee, and enduring his ill-humour with the long-suffering which seemed peculiar to...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
William
Dork, the constable, reached Doncaster at about a quarter past one o’clock upon the morning after the murder, and drove straight to the Reindeer. That hotel had been closed for a couple of hours, and it was only by the exercise of...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The Golden Lion had reassumed its accustomed air of rustic tranquillity when John Mellish returned to it. The jurymen had gone back to their different avocations, glad to have finished the business so easily; the villagers, who had hung about the inn...
Preface
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘The
American’, which I had begun in Paris early in the winter of 1875–76, made its first appearance in ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ in June of the latter year and continued there, from month to month, till May of the next. It started on...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He called on Madame de Cintré the very next day, and learnt from the servant that she was at home. He passed as usual up the large cold staircase and through a spacious vestibule above, where the walls seemed all composed of small door-panels...
Introduction to Old Mortality
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The remarkable person, called by the title of Old Mortality, was well known in Scotland about the end of the last century. His real name was Robert Paterson. He was a native, it is said, of the parish of Closeburn, in Dumfries-shire, and probably...
Chapter III
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Pleasures of Hope*

When the military evolutions had been gone through tolerably well, allowing for the awkwardness of men and of horses, a loud shout announced that the...
Chapter V
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

James duff*

Morton and his companion had attained some distance from the town before...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Shakspeare*

Being at length rid of the housekeeper’s presence, Morton made a collection of what he had reserved from the provisions set before him, and prepared to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Butler*

The increased pace of the party of...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Hudibras*

Cornet Richard Grahame descended the hill, bearing in his hand the extempore flag of truce, and making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Alchemist*

We...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Henry IV, Part II*

The leaders of the presbyterian army had a serious consultation upon the evening of the day in which they had made the attack on Tillietudlem. They could...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Beggar’s Opera*

So deep was the slumber which succeeded the agitation and embarrassment of the preceding day, that Morton hardly knew where he was when it was broken by the...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Logan*

Cuddie soon returned, assuring the stranger, with a cheerful voice, ‘that the horse was properly suppered...
Chapter 3
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Before long, Fabrice met some vivandières, and the deep gratitude he felt for the jailer’s wife from B*** prompted him to speak to them; he enquired of one where he would find the 4th Regiment of hussars, to which he belonged.

‘You’d do just as...
Chapter 7
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

The story of the next four years is made up of little details of court life as trivial as those recounted above. Every spring the Marquise came with her daughters to spend two months at the Palazzo Sanseverina or the estate at Sacca, on the...
Chapter 8
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Thus, less than a month after arriving at court, Fabrice knew all the vexations of a courtier, and the intimate friendship that had made his life happy was poisoned. One evening, tormented by these thoughts, he left the Duchess’s drawing-room where he seemed too like...
Chapter 16
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

‘Well!’ exclaimed the General on catching sight of his brother Don Cesare, ‘now the Duchess will be spending 100,000 scudi to make a fool of me and help the prisoner escape!’

But for the present we must leave Fabrice in his prison at the very...
Chapter 25
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Our hero’s arrival filled Clélia with despair: the poor girl, who was sincerely pious and free from self-deception, could not conceal from herself the fact that she would never know happiness separated from Fabrice; but she had promised the Madonna, when her father was almost...
Part II
Authors: Rousseau Jean-jacques
Published: December 2020

The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, ‘This is mine’, and came across people simple enough to believe him. How many crimes, wars, murders and how much misery and horror the...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

His eyes had followed her at this time quite long enough, before he overtook her, to make out more than ever in the poise of her head, the pride of her step—he didn’t know what best to call it—a part at least of Mrs...
Chapter II The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

To account for, and excuse the tyranny of man, many ingenious arguments have been brought forward to prove, that the two sexes, in the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very different character: or, to speak explicitly, women are not allowed to...
The Cardboard Box
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents. It is, however,...
The Way That He Took
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Almost every word of this story is based on fact. The Boer War of 1899–1902 was a very small one as wars were reckoned, and was fought without any particular malice, but it taught our men the practical value of scouting in the field. They...
Sea Constables a tale of ’15
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The head-waiter of the Carvoitz* almost ran to meet Portson and his guests as they came up the steps from the palm-court where the string band plays.

‘Not seen you since—oh, ever so long,’ he began. ‘So glad to get your wire....
The Tale of the Boy Who Set Out To Learn Fear
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a father who had two sons. The elder was clever and sensible and knew the right thing to do in all circumstances, but the younger boy was stupid, and couldn’t understand anything nor learn anything. And when folk looked at him,...
The Twelve Brothers
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a king and a queen who lived at peace with each other. They had twelve children—but they were all boys. The king then told his wife: ‘If the thirteenth child you bring into the world is a girl, the...
Tales of Toads and Adders
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

I

There was once a little boy whose mother gave him a little bowl of white bread and milk every afternoon, and the child would sit out in the yard to eat it. But whenever he began to eat the house adder would come...
Chapter IV madonna’s mother
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It is a quarter to twelve by the hall clock at the Rectory, and one of the finest autumn mornings of the whole season. Vance, Doctor Joyce’s middle-aged man servant, or ‘Bishop’ Vance, as the small wits of Rubbleford call him, in allusion to...
Chapter II the prodigal’s return
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When Zack reached Baregrove Square, it was four in the morning. The neighbouring church clock struck the hour as he approached his own door.

Immediately after parting with Mat, malicious Fate so ordained it that he passed one of those late—or, to speak more correctly,...
Chapter IV fate works, with zack for an instrument
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

A quarter of an hour’s rapid walking from his father’s door, took Zack well out of the neighbourhood of Baregrove Square, and launched him in vagabond independence loose on the world. He had a silk handkerchief and sevenpence halfpenny in his pockets—his available...
Chapter I
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

It was early on a...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

When their collation was ended, Sir...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The German, determined, it would seem, to assert the vantage- ground on...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Old
Edie was stirring with the lark, and his first enquiry was after Steenie and the pocket-book. The young fisherman...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

’I Wish to Heaven, Hector,’ said the Antiquary, next morning after breakfast, ’you would spare our nerves, and not be keeping snapping that arquebuss of yours.’

’Well, sir, I’m sure I’m sorry...
Chapter V
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The corridors of the Court were already full of activity. The attendants, out of breath, shuffling their feet along the ground, hurried backwards and forwards with all sorts of messages and papers. Ushers, advocates, and law officers passed hither and thither. Plaintiffs, and the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The president, having looked through some papers and put a few questions to the usher and the secretary and received affirmative replies, gave the order for the prisoners to be brought in.

The door behind the railing was instantly opened and two gendarmes, with caps...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When he returned from church Nekhlyudov broke the fast with his aunts and took a glass of spirits and some wine, having got into the habit of drinking while with his regiment, and on reaching his room he fell asleep at once, dressed as...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The following day the gay, handsome, and brilliant Schönbock joined Nekhlyudov at his aunt’s house, and quite won their hearts by his refined and amiable manner, his high spirits, his generosity, and his affection for Dmitry.

But though the old ladies admired his generosity...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess Sophia Vasilyevna, Missy’s mother, had finished her very elaborate and nourishing dinner. (She always had it alone, so that no one should see her performing this unpoetical function.) By her couch stood a small table with her coffee, and she was smoking a...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The cell in which Maslova was imprisoned was a long room twenty-one feet long and sixteen feet broad; it had two windows and a large, dilapidated stove. Two-thirds of the space was taken up by plank-beds. The planks they were made of...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During an adjournment Nekhlyudov got up and went out into the corridor, with the intention of not returning to the Court. Let them do what they liked with him, he could take part no more in this awful and horrid tomfoolery.

Having inquired for the...
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

That night Maslova lay long awake with her eyes open; and gazing at the door, before which the deacon’s daughter kept pacing, she pondered. She was thinking that nothing would induce her to marry a convict at Sakhalin,* but that she would...