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The Bright Sun Brings It To Light
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A tailor’s prentice once journeyed abroad in the world practising his craft, but at one time he could find no work, and his poverty was so great that he had not a farthing for his keep. At this time he met a Jew...
The Little Shepherd Boy
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a little shepherd boy who was famous far and wide because of the wise answers he gave to every question. The king of that land also heard of this, but did not believe it. Rather, he sent for the boy and...
A Riddling Tale
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Three women were turned into flowers growing in the field. However, one of them was allowed to stay in her house at night. Once, as day was drawing near and she had to return to her playfellows in the field and become a flower...
Chapter III madonna’s childhood
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In the autumn of 1838, Mrs Blyth’s malady had for some time past assumed the permanent form from which it seldom afterwards varied. She now suffered little actual pain, except when she quitted a recumbent posture. But the general disorganization produced by almost exclusive...
Chapter VI madonna goes to london
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The clown’s wife had sat very pale and very quiet under the whole overwhelming torrent of Mr Blyth’s apostrophes, exclamations, and entreaties. She seemed quite unable to speak, after he was fairly gone; and only looked round in a bewildered manner at the rector,...
Chapter VIII joanna grice’s narrative
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘I intend this letter to be read after my death, and I purpose calling it plainly a Justification of my conduct towards my Niece. Not because I think my conduct wants any excuse—but because others, ignorant of my true motives, may think that...
Chapter XI the garden door
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Hit or miss, I’ll chance it to-night.’ Those words were the first that issued from Mat’s lips on the morning after Mr Blyth’s visit, as he stood alone amid the festive relics of the past evening, in the front room at Kirk Street....
The Europeans
Authors: James Henry , Ross Ian Campbell
Published: December 2020

Eugenia, Baroness Mnster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The brilliant Eugenia fascinates her impressionable cousins and their more worldly neighbour, but she is baffled by these people, 'to whom fibbing was not pleasing'. Meanwhile Felix, painter of trifling sketches, eases them all in and out of various amorous complications, with 'no fear of not being, in the end, agreeable'.
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

That evening, at dinner, Felix Young gave his sister, the Baroness Münster, an account of his impressions. She saw that he had come back in the highest possible spirits; but this fact, to her own mind, was not a reason for rejoicing. She had...
XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Sincethat visit paid by the Baroness Münster to Mrs Acton, of which some account was given at an earlier stage of this narrative, the intercourse between these two ladies had been neither frequent nor intimate. It was not that Mrs Acton had failed to...
The Mazarin Stone
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was pleasant to Dr Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the...
The Three Garridebs
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well,...
Chapter I: A Family Scene
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Repose is not more welcome to the worn and to the aged, to the sick and to the unhappy, than danger, difficulty, and toil to the young and adventurous. Danger they encounter but as the forerunner of success; difficulty, as the spur...
Chapter VI: Tuition of a young Lady
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The fair Indiana participated not in the philosophy of her preceptor. The first mention of taking lessons produced an aversion unconquerable to their teacher; and the first question he asked her at the appointed hour for study, was answered by a burst of tears....

To...
Chapter VII: Lost Labour
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

From this period, the families of Etherington and Cleves lived in the enjoyment of uninterrupted harmony and repose, till Eugenia, the most juvenile of the set, had attained her fifteenth year.

Sir Hugh then wrote to Leipsic, desiring his nephew Lynmere to return home without...
Chapter XIV: Two Retreats
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold had obeyed the summons of Sir Hugh, whom they found in extreme tribulation; persuaded by his fears not only of the design of Bellamy, but of its inevitable success. His brother, however, who knew his alarms to be generally as...
Chapter III: A few Compliments
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The two young ladies and Mr. Dubster, left thus together, and so situated that separation without assistance was impossible, looked at one another for some time in nearly equal dismay; and then Mr. Dubster, with much displeasure, exclaimed—’Them young gentlemen are as full of...
Chapter V: A Sermon
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The kind reception of Mrs. Arlbery, and all the animation of her discourse, were thrown away upon Camilla. An absent smile, and a few faint acknowledgments of her goodness were all she could return: Eugenia abandoned when she might have been served, Edgar contemning...
Chapter VII: The Rooms
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The evening, as usual, was destined to the Rooms. The first object Camilla perceived upon her entrance was Edgar, and the smile with which she met his eye brought him instantly to her side. That smile was not less radiant for his nearer approach;...
Chapter XV: An Accorder
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Thus, self-confined and almost in an agony, Camilla remained for a quarter of an hour, without any species of interruption, and in the greatest amazement that Lionel forbore pursuing her, either with letter or message.

Another violent ringing at the bell, but still without...
Chapter VII: The Triumph of Pride
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The three sisters were retired, at night, to another council in the room of Camilla, when Molly Mill, with a look of dismay, burst in upon them, bringing, with the answer of Sir Sedley, news that Tommy Hodd, by an accident he could not...
Chapter XIII: Live and Learn
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Before the Cleves party assembled to breakfast, after the various arrangements made for Southampton, Mr. Dubster arrived, and demanded an interview with Sir Hugh, who, attending him to the drawing-room, asked his pleasure.

‘Why, have not you read the young gentleman’s letter, sir?’ cried he,...
Chapter VIII: The Power of Prepossession
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The two sisters were silent from the hotel to the house of Mrs. Berlinton…. From the height of happiest expectation, raised by the quick return of Edgar, Camilla was sunk into the lowest despondence, by the abortive conclusion of the meeting: while Eugenia was...
Chapter VI: The Reverse of a Mask
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The plan of Camilla was to stop within twenty yards of the house of Bellamy, and then send for Molly Mill. But till she gave this direction to the driver, she was not aware of the inconvenience of being without a servant, which had...
The Art of Book-Making
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

If that severe doom of Synesius be true—‘It is a greater offence to steal dead men’s labor, than their clothes,’ what shall become of most writers?

Burton’s
Anatomy of
Melancholy*

I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and...
The Country Church
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Beggar’s
Bush*

There are few places more favorable to the study of character than an English country church. I was...
A Sunday in London
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquilizing effect upon the landscape; but where is its sacred influence more strikingly apparent than in the very heart of that great Babel, London? On this sacred day,...
Rural Funerals
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Cymbeline*

Among the...
London Antiques
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Fletcher*

I Am somewhat of an antiquity hunter, and...
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Castle of
Indolence*

In the bosom of one of those spacious...
The Broken Heart
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Middleton*

It is a common practice with those who have outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or...
Chapter II The Captain
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was impossible to live a month at Cranford, and not know the daily habits of each resident; and long before my visit was ended, I knew much concerning the whole Brown trio. There was nothing new to be discovered respecting their poverty; for...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He learned what he had asked some three or four days later, after Morris Townsend, with his cousin, had called in Washington Square. Mrs Penniman did not tell her brother, on the drive home, that she had intimated to this agreeable young man, whose...
X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Catherine received the young man the next day on the ground she had chosen—amid the chaste upholstery of a New York drawing-room furnished in the fashion of fifty years ago. Morris had swallowed his pride and made the effort necessary to cross the threshold...
XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

On the morrow, in the afternoon, he stayed at home, awaiting Mr Townsend’s call—a proceeding by which it appeared to him (justly perhaps, for he was a very busy man) that he paid Catherine’s suitor great honour, and gave both these young people so...
XXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The Doctor, during the first six months he was abroad, never spoke to his daughter of their little difference; partly on system, and partly because he had a great many other things to think about. It was idle to attempt to ascertain the state...
XXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The voyage was indeed uncomfortable, and Catherine, on arriving in New York, had not the compensation of ‘going off’, in her father’s phrase, with Morris Townsend. She saw him, however, the day after she landed; and, in the meantime, he formed a natural subject...
XXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

If she had disturbed her niece’s temper—she began from this moment forward to talk a good deal about Catherine’s temper, an article which up to that time had never been mentioned in connection with our heroine—Catherine had opportunity, on the morrow, to recover her...
Chapter XIV The First Blow
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.*

I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and...
Chapter XXXIII The Fall of a Chieftain
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

There never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money;...
The Fortune of the Rougons
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.’ Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvère and Miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d’état in December 1851. They join the woodcutters and peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans, opposed by the Bonapartist loyalists led by Silvère's uncle, Pierre Rougon. Meanwhile, the foundations of the Rougon family and its illegitimate Macquart branch are being laid in the brutal beginnings of the Imperial regime. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was established through violence, the ‘fortune’ of the Rougons is paid for in blood.
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At about five o’clock in the morning Rougon finally ventured out of his mother’s house. The old woman had fallen asleep on a chair. He crept to the end of the Impasse Saint-Mittre. There was not a sound, not a shadow. He pushed on...
EIGHTH WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Meditating on the state of my soul through every stage of my life, I am extremely struck by the lack of direct relationship between the different forms my destiny has taken and the habitual feelings of well-being or despondency they have stirred in me....
Chapter XV DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:—

‘Dr Van Helsing, are you mad?’ He raised his head and...
Chapter XXV DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

11 October, evening.—Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.

I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs Harker a...
The Man with the Bracelet
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

October: the ambiguous and sinister aspect of certain outlying streets during these rainy and livid days of the late season, especially at dusk when, once the sickening grind of the daily task has been acquitted, the bestial instincts inside us come to...
On the Threshold
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

At the Chateau de la Fourche, everything was melancholy and grandiose: the gallows name,* to begin with, redolent of a more severe and primitive justice, meted out in seigneurial times; the four dark avenues whose lamentations sounded like an ocean; the moats...
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
Authors: Sade The Marquis de
Published: December 2020

‘I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.’ Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfast faith and naive trust in trust in everyone she meets destine her from the outset for sexual exploitation and martyrdom. The unending catalogue of disasters that befall her, during which she is subject to any number of perverse practices, illustrate Sade’s belief in the primacy of Nature over civilization. Virtue is no match for vice, and as criminality and violence triumph, Justine is doomed to suffer. Sade’s s writings have become a byword for transgression and obscenity, and the logical amorality of his philosophy still has the power to shock. By overturning social, religious, and political norms he puts under scrutiny conventional ideas of justice, power, life, and death. Justine is a ferocious physical and intellectual assault on absolute notions of good and evil, and as such, one of the earliest literary manifestos for atheism.
Vathek
Authors: Beckford William
Published: December 2020

Vathek, ninth Caliph* of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.* From an early accession to the throne, and the talents he possessed to adorn it, his subjects were induced...
Lady Audley’s Secret
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley’s past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael’s nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, whose sensational twists turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert’s darkest suspicions really be true? Lady Audley’s Secret was an immediate bestseller, and readers have enjoyed its thrilling plot ever since its first publication in 1862. This new edition explores Braddon’s portrait of her scheming heroine in the context of the nineteenth-century sensation novel and the lively, often hostile debates it provoked.
Chapter XV On the Watch
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Upon a lowering morning late in November, with the yellow fog low upon the flat meadows, and the blinded cattle groping their way through the dim obscurity, and blundering stupidly against black and leafless hedges, or stumbling into ditches, undistinguishable in the hazy atmosphere;...
Chapter XVII At the Castle Inn
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The little sitting-room into which Phœbe Marks ushered the baronet’s nephew was situated on the ground floor, and only separated by a lath-and-plaster partition from the little bar-parlour occupied by the innkeeper and his wife.

It seemed as though the wise architect who had superintended...
Chapter III My Lady Tells the Truth
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Is there any room in which I can talk to you alone?’ Robert Audley asked, as he looked dubiously round the hall.

My lady only bowed her head in answer. She pushed open the door of the library, which had been left ajar. Sir...
Chapter VII Ghost-Haunted
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

No feverish sleeper travelling in a strange dream ever looked out more wonderingly upon a world that seemed unreal than Robert Audley, as he stared absently at the flat swamps and dismal poplars between Villebrumeuse and Brussels. Could it be that he was returning...
Chapter 2 lady macleod
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I cannot say that the house in Queen Anne Street was a pleasant house. I am now speaking of the material house, made up of the walls and furniture, and not of any pleasantness or unpleasantness supplied by the inmates. It...
Chapter 15 paramount crescent
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady
Macleod lived at No. 3, Paramount Crescent, in Cheltenham, where she occupied a very handsome first-floor drawing-room, with a bedroom behind it, looking over a stable-yard, and a small room which would have been the dressing-room had the late Sir Archibald been alive,...
Chapter 18 alice vavasor’s great relations
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Burgo
Fitzgerald, of whose hunting experiences something has been told in the last chapter, was a young man born in the purple of the English aristocracy. He was related to half the dukes in the kingdom, and had three countesses for his aunts. When...
Chapter 20 which shall it be?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The next day was Sunday, and it was well known at the lodging-house in the Close that Mr Cheesacre would not be seen there then. Mrs Greenow had specially warned him that she was not fond of Sunday visitors, fearing that otherwise he might...
Chapter 34 mr vavasor speaks to his daughter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice
Vavasor returned to London with her father, leaving Kate at Vavasor Hall with her grandfather. The journey was not a pleasant one. Mr Vavasor knew that it was his duty to do something,—to take some steps with the view of preventing the marriage...
Chapter 52 what occurred in suffolk street, pall mall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Tombe had gained nothing for the cause by his crafty silence. George Vavasor felt perfectly certain, as he walked out from the little street which runs at the back of Doctors’ Commons, that the money which he had been using had come, in...
Chapter 59 the duke of st bungay in search of a minister
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was the butler who had knocked,—showing that the knock was of more importance than it would have been had it been struck by the knuckles of the footman in livery. ‘If you please, sir, the Duke of St Bungay is here.’

‘The Duke...
Chapter 64 the rocks and valleys
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During these days Mrs Greenow was mistress of the old Hall down in Westmoreland, and was nursing Kate assiduously through the calamity of her broken arm. There had come to be a considerable amount of confidence between the aunt and the niece. Kate had...
Chapter 75 rouge et noir
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice insisted on being left up in the churchyard, urging that she wanted to ‘think about it all,’ but, in truth, fearing that she might not be able to carry herself well, if she were to walk down with her lover to
Chapter 79 diamonds are diamonds
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Kate and Alice, as they drew near to their journey’s end, were both a little flurried, and I cannot but own that there was cause for nervousness. Kate Vavasor was to meet Mr Grey for the first time. Mr Grey was now staying at...
Chapter 80 the story is finished within the halls of the duke of omnium
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Grey and his wife were duly carried away from Matching Priory by post horses, and did their honeymoon, we may be quite sure, with much satisfaction. When Alice was first asked where she would go, she simply suggested that it should not be...
At Richmond
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The pity of it! The pity of it!* It was thus that Lady Cantrip looked at it. From what the girl’s father had said to her she was disposed to believe that the malady had gone deep with her. ‘All things go...
The New Member For Silverbridge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Silverbridge was informed that it would be right that he should go down to Silverbridge a few days before the election, to make himself known to the electors. As the day for the election drew near it was understood that there would be...
Mrs Montacute Jones’s Garden–Party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was known to all the world that Mrs Montacute Jones’s first great garden-party was to come off on Wednesday, 16th June, at Roehampton. Mrs Montacute Jones, who lived in Grosvenor Place and had a country house in Gloucestershire, and a place for young...
Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 1
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Thrice within the next three weeks did Lord Silverbridge go forth to ask Mabel to be his wife, but thrice in vain. On one occasion she would talk on other things. On the second Miss Cassewary would not leave her. On the third the...
The Brake Country
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘What does your father mean to do about Trumpington Wood?’ That was the first word from Lord Chiltern after he had shaken hands with his guest.

‘Isn’t it all right yet?’

‘All right? No! How can a wood like that be all right without...
The Wild Ass's Skin
Authors: Balzac Honoré de , Coleman Patrick
Published: December 2020

‘Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me. . .’ Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with magical properties. It will grant its possessor his every wish, but each time a wish is bestowed the skin shrinks, hastening its owner's death. Around this fantastic premise Balzac weaves a compelling psychological portrait of his hero, a prisoner of his own Promethean imagination, and explores profound ideas about the human will, vice and virtue, love and death. Helen Constantine's new translation captures the energy and exuberance of Balzac's novel, one of the most engaging of his 'Études philosophiques' from the Comédie humaine. The accompanying introduction and notes offer fresh insights into this remarkable work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Introduction

When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me...
Chapter 2 Phineas Finn is elected for Loughshane
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

One great difficulty about the borough vanished in a very wonderful way at the first touch. Dr Finn, who was a man stout at heart, and by no means afraid of his great friends, drove himself over to Castlemorris to tell his news to...
Chapter 16 Phineas Finn returns to Killaloe
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas Finn’s first session of Parliament was over,—his first session with all its adventures. When he got back to Mrs Bunce’s house,—for Mrs Bunce received him for a night in spite of her husband’s advice to the contrary,—I am afraid he almost felt that...
Chapter 21 ‘Do be punctual’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the very morning after his failure in the House of Commons, when Phineas was reading in the Telegraph,*—he took the Telegraph not from choice but for economy,—the words of that debate which he had heard and in which he should have...
Chapter 25 Mr Turnbull’s Carriage stops the Way
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Phineas got back to London, a day after his time, he found that there was already a great political commotion in the metropolis. He had known that on Easter Monday and Tuesday there was to be a gathering of the people in favour...
Chapter 27 Phineas discussed
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Laura Kennedy heard two accounts of her friend’s speech,—and both from men who had been present. Her husband was in his place, in accordance with his constant practice, and Lord Brentford had been seated, perhaps unfortunately, in the peers’ gallery.

‘And you think it...
Chapter 32 Lady Laura Kennedy’s Headache
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas went down to Loughlinter early in July, taking Loughton in his way. He stayed there one night at the inn, and was introduced to sundry influential inhabitants of the borough by Mr Grating, the ironmonger, who was known by those who knew Loughton...
Chapter 39 Lady Laura is told
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By the time that Mr Mildmay’s great bill was going into committee Phineas was able to move about London in comfort,—with his arm, however, still in a sling. There had been nothing more about him and his wound in the People’s Banner, and he...
Chapter 43 Promotion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas got no card from Lady Baldock, but one morning he received a note from Lord Brentford which was of more importance to him than any card could have been. At this time, bit by bit, the Reform Bill of the day had nearly...
Chapter 46 The Mousetrap
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas had certainly no desire to make love by an ambassador,—at second-hand. He had given no commission to Lady Laura, and was, as the reader is aware, quite ignorant of what was being done and said on his behalf. He had asked no more...
Chapter 53 Showing how Phineas bore the Blow
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Phineas received Lady Laura Kennedy’s letter, he was sitting in his gorgeous apartment in the Colonial Office. It was gorgeous in comparison with the very dingy room at Mr Low’s to which he had been accustomed in his early days,—and somewhat gorgeous also...
Chapter VI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next day the weather was brave and glorious; a perfect ‘bridal of the earth and sky;’* and every one turned out of the inn to enjoy the fresh beauty of nature. Ruth was quite unconscious of being the object of remark,...
Chapter X
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

At the inn everything was life and bustle. Mr. Benson had to wait long in Mrs. Morgan’s little parlour before she could come to him, and he kept growing more and more impatient. At last she made her appearance and heard his story.

People may...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Ruth felt very shy when she came down (at half-past seven) the next morning, in her widow’s cap. Her smooth, pale face, with its oval untouched by time, looked more young and child-like than ever, when contrasted with the head-gear usually associated with ideas...
Chapter XV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Here is a parcel for you, Ruth!’ said Miss Benson on the Tuesday morning.

‘For me!’ said Ruth, all sorts of rushing thoughts and hopes filling her mind, and turning her dizzy with expectation. If it had been from ‘him,’ the new-born resolutions would...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next morning, as Jemima and her mother sat at their work, it came into the head of the former to remember her father’s very marked way of thanking Ruth the evening before.

‘What a favourite Mrs. Denbigh is with papa,’ said she. ‘I am...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Saturday came. Torn, ragged clouds were driven across the sky. It was not a becoming day for the scenery, and the little girls regretted it much. First they hoped for a change at twelve o’clock, and then at the afternoon tide-turning. But at neither...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

So it was that Jemima no longer avoided Ruth, nor manifested by word or look the dislike which for a long time she had been scarce concealing. Ruth could not help noticing that Jemima always sought to be in her presence while she was...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

As Ruth went along the accustomed streets, every sight and every sound seemed to bear a new meaning, and each and all to have some reference to her boy’s disgrace. She held her head down, and scudded along dizzy with fear, lest some word...
VI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

The boys were playing ball in the stables, but she did not feel as if she wanted to romp with them. There was a stillness and a sweetness abroad which penetrated and absorbed her. She moved towards the paddock gate; the pony and the...
XV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

‘I wish, mother, you was going to the hospital with me; it would save a lot of expense and you’d be better cared for.’

‘I’d like to be with you, dearie, but I can’t leave my ’ome, all these young children about and no...
XXII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Avondale Road was an obscure corner of the suburb—obscure, for it had just sprung into existence. The scaffolding that had built it now littered an adjoining field, where in a few months it would rise about Horsely Gardens, whose red gables and tiled upper...
XXVI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

William was waiting for her in the area; and while pinning on her hat she thought of what she should say, and how she should act. Should she tell him that she wanted to marry Fred? Then the long black pin that was to...
XXIX
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

If Fred had said, ‘Come away with me,’ Esther would have obeyed the elemental romanticism which is so fixed a principle in woman’s nature. But when she called at the shop he only spoke of his holiday, of the long walks he had taken,...
XXX
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

The ‘King’s Head’ was an humble place in the old-fashioned style. The house must have been built two hundred years, and the bar seemed as if it had been dug out of the house. The floor was some inches lower than the street, and...
XXXI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Never had a Derby* excited greater interest. Four hot favourites, between which the public seemed unable to choose. Two to one taken and offered against Fly-leaf, winner of the Two Thousand; four to one taken and offered against Signet-ring, who, half-trained, had...
Book One
Authors: Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann
Published: December 2020

4 May 1771

How glad I am to be away! My dear friend, what a thing the human heart is! I leave you, whom I love so much, from whom I was inseparable, and I am glad! You will forgive me, I know. Were...
Phineas and his Old Friends
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas
Finn returned from Tankerville to London in much better spirits than those which had accompanied him on his journey thither. He was not elected; but then, before the election, he had come to believe that it was quite out of the question that...
Coming Home from Hunting
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady
Chiltern was probably right when she declared that her husband must have been made to be a Master of Hounds,—presuming it to be granted that somebody must be Master of Hounds. Such necessity certainly does exist in this, the present condition of England....
The Browborough Trial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was another matter of public interest going on at this time which created a great excitement. And this, too, added to the importance of Phineas Finn, though Phineas was not the hero of the piece. Mr Browborough, the late member for Tankerville, was...
Showing What Mrs Bunce Said to the Policeman
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘We have left Adelaide Palliser down at the Hall. We are up here only for a couple of days to see Laura, and try to find out what had better be done about Kennedy.’ This was said to Phineas Finn in his own...
Conclusion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There remains to us the very easy task of collecting together the ends of the thread of our narrative, and tying them into a simple knot, so that there may be no unravelling. Of Mr Emilius it has been already said that his good...
Chapter 10 mrs dick’s dinner party.—no. 2
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Dick walked downstairs with Lady Monogram. There had been some doubt whether of right he should not have taken Lady Eustace, but it was held by Mrs Dick that her ladyship had somewhat impaired her rights by the eccentricities of her career, and also...
Chapter 35 lopez back in london
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lopez, as he returned to town, recovered something of his senses, though he still fancied that Arthur Fletcher had done him a positive injury by writing to his wife. But something of that madness left him which had come from his deep sense of...
Chapter 54 lizzie
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It cannot be supposed that Ferdinand Lopez at this time was a very happy man. He had, at any rate, once loved his wife, and would have loved her still could he have trained her to think as he thought, to share his wishes,...
Chapter 59 ‘the first and the last’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr Wharton was in Coleman Street, having his final interview with Mr Hartlepod, there came a visitor to Mrs Lopez in Manchester Square. Up to this date there had been great doubt with Mr Wharton whether at last the banishment to Guatemala would...
Chapter 70 at wharton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr Wharton and his daughter reached Wharton Hall there were at any rate no Fletchers there as yet. Emily, as she was driven from the station to the house, had not dared to ask a question or even to prompt her father to...
Chapter 1 Lizzie Greystock
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies,—who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two,—that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself. We will tell the story of Lizzie Greystock from the beginning, but...
Chapter 10 Lizzie and her Lover
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During the remainder of that Monday and all the Tuesday, Lizzie’s mind was, upon the whole, averse to matrimony. She had told Miss Macnulty of her prospects, with some amount of exultation; and the poor dependant, though she knew that she must be turned...
Chapter 12 ‘I only thought of it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was great perturbation down at Fawn Court. On the day fixed, Monday, June 5,* Lizzie arrived. Nothing further had been said by Lady Fawn to urge the invitation; but, in accordance with the arrangement already made, Lady Eustace, with her child,...
Chapter 23 Frank Greystock’s First Visit to Portray
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Had Frank Greystock known all that his cousin endured for his comfort, would he have been grateful? Women, when they are fond of men, do think much of men’s comfort in small matters, and men are apt to take the good things provided almost...
Chapter 26 Mr Gowran is Very Funny
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock certainly went over to Portray too often,—so often that the pony was proved to be quite necessary. Miss Macnulty held her tongue and was gloomy,—believing that Lady Eustace was still engaged to Lord Fawn, and feeling that in that case there should...
Chapter 30 Mr Greystock’s Troubles
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock stayed the Sunday in London and went down to Bobsborough on the Monday. His father and mother and sister all knew of his engagement to Lucy, and they had heard also that Lady Eustace was to become Lady Fawn. Of the necklace...
Chapter 55 Quints or Semitenths
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The task which Lady Glencora had taken upon herself was not a very easy one. No doubt Lord Fawn was a man subservient to the leaders of his party, much afraid of the hard judgment of those with whom he was concerned, painfully open...
Chapter 65 Tribute
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lizzie put off her journey to Scotland from day to day, though her cousin Frank continually urged upon her the expediency of going. There were various reasons, he said, why she should go. Her child was there, and it was proper that she should...
Chapter V The Cry in the Corridor
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

At first each day which passed by for Mary Lennox was exactly like the others. Every morning she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling upon the hearth building her fire; every morning she ate her breakfast in the nursery which had...
Chapter XIII “I Am Colin”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Mary took the picture back to the house when she went to her supper and she showed it to Martha.

“Eh!” said Martha with great pride. “I never knew our Dickon was as clever as that. That there’s a picture of a missel thrush on...
Chapter XIX “It Has Come!”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Of course Dr. Craven had been sent for the morning after Colin had had his tantrum. He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky...
Chapter XX “I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever!”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

But they were obliged to wait more than a week, because first there came some very windy days and then Colin was threatened with a cold, which two things happening one after the other would no doubt have thrown him into a rage but...
Chapter XXII When the Sun Went Down
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

When his head was out of sight Colin turned to Mary.

“Go and meet him,” he said; and Mary flew across the grass to the door under the ivy.

Dickon was watching him with sharp eyes. There were scarlet spots on his cheeks and he...
Chapter XXIII Magic
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Dr. Craven had been waiting some time at the house when they returned to it. He had indeed begun to wonder if it might not be wise to send some one out to explore the garden paths. When Colin was brought back to his...
Chapter XXVII In the Garden
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light....
Sun and Shadow
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Thirty years ago, Marseilles* lay burning in the sun, one day.

A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at...
Fellow Travellers
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“No more of yesterday’s howling, over yonder, to-day, sir; is there?”

“I have heard none.”

“Then you may be sure there is none. When these people howl, they howl to be heard.”

“Most people do, I suppose.”

“Ah! But these people are always howling....
The Lock
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Arthur Clennam stood in the street, waiting to ask some passer-by what place that was. He suffered a few people to pass him in whose faces there was no encouragement to make the enquiry, and still stood pausing in the street, when an old...
Let Loose
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A late, dull autumn night, was closing in upon the river Saone. The stream, like a sullied looking-glass in a gloomy place, reflected the clouds heavily; and the low banks leaned over here and there, as if they were half curious, and...
Conspirators and Others
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The private residence of Mr. Pancks was in Pentonville,* where he lodged on the second floor of a professional gentleman in an extremely small way, who had an inner-door within the street-door, poised on a spring and starting open with a click...
Mrs. Merdle’s Complaint
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Resigning herself to inevitable fate, by making the best of those people the Miggleses, and submitting her philosophy to the draught upon it, of which she had foreseen the likelihood in her interview with Arthur, Mrs. Gowan handsomely resolved not to oppose her son’s...
On the Road
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The bright morning sun dazzled the eyes, the snow had ceased, the mists had vanished, the mountain air was so clear and light that the new sensation of breathing it was like the having entered on a new existence. To help the delusion, the...
A Letter from little Dorrit
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Dear Mr. Clennam.

I write to you from my own room at Venice, thinking you will be glad to hear from me. But I know you cannot be so glad to hear from me, as I am to write to you; for everything about...
Something Wrong Somewhere
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The family had been a month or two at Venice, when Mr. Dorrit, who was much among Counts and Marquises, and had but scant leisure, set an hour of one day apart, beforehand, for the purpose of holding some conference with Mrs. General.

The time...
Appearance and Disappearance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Arthur, my dear boy,” said Mr. Meagles, on the evening of the following day, “Mother and I have been talking this over, and we don’t feel comfortable in remaining as we are. That elegant connexion of ours—that dear lady who was here...
A Letter from Little Dorrit
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Dear Mr. Clennam.

As I said in my last that it was best for nobody to write to me, and as my sending you another little letter can therefore give you no other trouble than the trouble of reading it (perhaps you may not find...
Getting on
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The newly-married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, were received by the Chief Butler. That great man was not interested in them, but on the whole endured them. People must continue to be married and given in marriage, or Chief...
The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The dinner-party was at the great Physician’s. Bar was there, and in full force. Ferdinand Barnacle was there, and in his most engaging state. Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. There...
The Pupil of the Marshalsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The day was sunny, and the Marshalsea, with the hot noon striking upon it, was unwontedly quiet. Arthur Clennam dropped into a solitary arm-chair, itself as faded as any debtor in the jail, and yielded himself to his thoughts.

In the unnatural peace of having...
Letter XI: The Same to the Same
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

You are now to conceive us proceeding in our different directions across the bare downs. Yonder flies little Benjie to the northward, with Hemp scampering at his heels, both running as if for dear life, so long as the rogue is within sight of...
Chapter 4
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

When Dicky Perrott came running into Jago Row with the Bishop's watch in his pocket, another boy punched a fist at him, and at the time Dicky was at a loss to guess the cause—unless it were a simple caprice—but stayed neither to inquire...
Chapter 6
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

In the morning the police still held the Jago. Their presence embarrassed many, but none more than Dicky Perrott, who would always take a turning, or walk the other way, at sight of a policeman. Dicky got out of Old Jago Street early, and...
Chapter 25
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Dicky's morning theft that day had been but a small one—he had run off with a new two-foot rule that a cabinet-maker had carelessly left on an unfinished office table at his shop door in Curtain Road. It was not much, but it might...