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A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred; with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though the captain had effectually demolished poor Partridge, yet had he not reaped the harvest he hoped for, which was to turn the foundling out of Mr Allworthy’s house.

On the contrary, that gentleman grew every day fonder of little Tommy, as if he intended...
The hero of this great history appears with very bad omens. A little tale of so LOW a kind that some may think it not worth their notice. A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gamekeeper and a schoolmaster
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

AS we determined, when we first sat down to write this history, to flatter no man, but to guide our pen throughout by the directions of truth, we are obliged to bring our hero on the stage in a much more disadvantageous manner than we...
Containing matter of no very peaceable colour
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Molly had no sooner apparelled herself in her accustomed rags, than her sisters began to fall violently upon her, particularly her eldest sister, who told her she was well enough served. ‘How had she the assurance to wear a gown which young Madam Western...
Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader will perhaps imagine the sensations which now arose in Jones to have been so sweet and delicious that they would rather tend to produce a cheerful serenity in the mind than any of those dangerous effects which we have mentioned; but in...
In which Mr Western visits Mr Allworthy
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Allworthy was now retired from breakfast with his nephew, well satisfied with the report of the young gentleman’s successful visit to Sophia (for he greatly desired the match, more on account of the young lady’s character than of her riches), when Mr Western...
The behaviour of Sophia on the present occasion; which none of her sex will blame, who are capable of behaving in the same manner. And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Sophia had passed the last twenty-four hours in no very desirable manner. During a large part of them she had been entertained by her aunt with lectures of prudence, recommending to her the example of the polite world, where love (so the good lady...
Containing great variety of matter
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The squire overtook his sister just as she was stepping into the coach, and partly by force, and partly by solicitations, prevailed upon her to order her horses back into their quarters. He succeeded in this attempt without much difficulty; for the lady was,...
The wise demeanour of Mr Western in the character of a magistrate. A hint to Justices of Peace, concerning the necessary qualifications of a clerk; with extraordinary instances of paternal madness and filial affection
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Logicians sometimes prove too much by an argument, and politicians often overreach themselves in a scheme. Thus had it like to have happened to Mrs Honour, who, instead of recovering the rest of her clothes, had like to have stopped even those she had...
In which Jones pays a visit to Mrs Fitzpatrick
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader may now, perhaps, be pleased to return with us to Mr Jones, who, at the appointed hour, attended on Mrs Fitzpatrick; but before we relate the conversation which now passed, it may be proper, according to our method, to return a little...
VI.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Sue sat looking at the bare floor of the room, the house being little more than an old intramural cottage, and then she regarded the scene outside the uncurtained window. At some distance opposite, the outer walls of Sarcophagus* College—silent, black and...
XXVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next morning Henchard went to the Town-hall below Lucetta’s house, to attend petty sessions,* being still a magistrate for the year by virtue of his late position as mayor. In passing he looked up at her windows, but nothing of her...
Chapter X A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next morning, at a time when the height of the sun appeared very insignificant from any part of the heath, as compared with the altitude of Blackbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were like an archipelago in a...
Chapter III How a Little Sound produced a Great Dream
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Eustacia stood just within the heath, straining her eyes in the direction of Mrs Yeobright’s house and premises. No light, sound, or movement, was perceptible there. The evening was chilly; the spot was dark and lonely. She inferred that the guest had not yet...
Chapter VII A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The old captain’s prevailing indifference to his granddaughter’s movements left her free as a bird to follow her own courses; but it so happened that he did take upon himself the next morning to ask her why she had walked out so late.

“Only in...
Chapter V Sharp Words are spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his books: when he was not reading he was meeting her. These meetings were carried on with the greatest secrecy.

One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomasin. He could...
Chapter VI An Awkward Conjuncture, and its Result upon the Pedestrian
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Wildeve, as has been stated, was determined to visit Eustacia boldly, by day, and on the easy terms of a relative, since the reddleman had made it uncomfortable for him to walk that way by night. The spell that she had thrown over him...
Chapter V An Old Move inadvertently repeated
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Charley’s attentions to his former mistress were unbounded. The only solace to his own trouble lay in his attempts to relieve hers. Hour after hour he considered her wants: he thought of her presence there with a sort of gratitude, and, while uttering imprecations...
VI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Tess went down the hill to Trantridge Cross, and inattentively waited to take her seat in the van returning from Chaseborough to Shaston. She did not know what the other occupants said to her as she entered, though she answered them; and when they...
XX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The season developed and matured. Another year’s instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place, when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays...
XXIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Var Vale, at a season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready bosoms existing...
XXXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

This penitential mood kept her from naming the wedding-day. The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times. But Tess’s desire seemed to be for a perpetual betrothal, in which everything should remain as...
LI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year. It is a day of fulfilment; agreements for outdoor service during the ensuing year,...
52 The False King
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In the meantime, usurped royalty was playing out its part bravely at Vaux. Philippe gave orders for a full reception at his petit lever.* He determined to give this order notwithstanding the absence of M. d’Herblay, who did not return,...
59 The Silver Dish
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The journey passed off pretty well. Athos and his son traversed France at the rate of fifteen leagues per day; sometimes more, sometimes less, according to the intensity of Raoul’s grief. It took them a fortnight to reach Toulon, and they lost all traces...
81 King Louis Xiv.
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The King was seated in his cabinet, with his back turned towards the door of entrance. In front of him was a mirror, in which, while turning over his papers, he could see with a glance those who came in. He did not take...
XII m. porthos du vallon de bracieux de pierrefonds
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Thanks to the information gained from Aramis, d’Artagnan, who already knew that Porthos, from his family name,* was called Vallon, had learned that from his lands he was called Bracieux, and that on account of this estate he had gone to law...
XL mazarin and queen henrietta
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The cardinal rose, and went in haste to receive the Queen of England. He joined her in the middle of the gallery which led to his cabinet. He showed all the more respect to this queen without attendants and jewels, because he himself felt...
XLI how the unfortunate sometimes mistake chance for providence
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Well, Madame,’ said Winter, when the queen had sent away the servants.

‘Well, just what I expected has happened, my Lord.’

‘He refuses?’

‘Have I not already told you in advance?’

‘The cardinal refuses to receive the king? France refuses hospitality to...
LVI news from aramis
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had gone straight to the stables. It was the break of day; he recognized his own horse and that of Porthos tied to the manger, but this was empty. He felt sorry for the poor beasts, and went up to a corner...
XCIV how greater progress is made with a pen and a threat than by the sword and devotedness
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan knew his mythology; he knew that Opportunity has only a tuft of hair by which it can be seized, and he was not the man to let it pass without seizing it. He organized a prompt and sure mode of travelling by...
Chapter IV
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

ow, sir, time to get up, if you please. Tally-ho coach for Leicester*’ll be round in half-an-hour, and don’t wait...
Chapter IV In Which Barry Takes A Near View of Military Glory
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

I never had a taste for anything but genteel company, and hate all descriptions of low life. Hence my account of the society in which I at present found myself must of necessity be short, and indeed, the recollection of it is profoundly disagreeable...
Chapter XVI I Provide Nobly for My Family and Attain The Height of My (Seeming) Good Fortune
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The next day when I went back, my fears were realized; the door was refused to me—my lady was not at home. This I knew to be false: I had watched the door the whole morning from a lodging I took at a house...
Chapter I: Elements of Education
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IF anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeoman and churchwarden, have seen and had a share in some doings of this neighbourhood, which I will try to set down...
Chapter XXII: A Long Spring Month
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

AFTER hearing that tale from Lorna, I went home in sorry spirits, having added fear for her, and misery about her, to all my other ailments. And was it not quite certain now, that she being owned full cousin to a peer and lord of...
Chapter XXVI: John is drained and cast aside
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

HIS lordship was busy with some letters, and did not look up for a minute or two, although he knew that I was there. Meanwhile I stood waiting to make my bow; afraid to begin upon him, and wondering at his great bullhead. Then he...
Chapter XXVII: Home again at last
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT was the beginning of wheat-harvest, when I came to Dunster town, having walked all the way from London, and being somewhat footsore. For though five pounds was enough to keep me in food and lodging upon the road, and leave me many a shilling...
Chapter XXIX: Reaping leads to revelling
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH I was under interdict for two months from my darling—‘one for your sake, one for mine,’ she had whispered, with her head withdrawn, yet not so very far from me—lighter heart was not on Exmoor than I bore for half the time, and even...
Chapter XXXVIII: A Good. Turn for Jeremy
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

JOHN Fry had now six shillings a week of regular and permanent wage, besides all harvest and shearing money, as well as a cottage rent-free, and enough of garden-ground to rear pot-herbs for his wife and all his family. Now the wages appointed by our...
Chapter LXII: The King must not be prayed for
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALL our neighbourhood was surprised, that the Doones had not ere now attacked, and probably made an end of us. For we lay almost at their mercy now, having only Serjeant Bloxham, and three men, to protect us, Captain Stickles having been ordered southwards with...
Chapter LXVIII: John is John no longer
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT would be hard for me to tell the state of mind in which I lived for a long time after this. I put away from me all torment, and the thought of future cares, and the sight of difficulty; and to myself appeared, which...
Chapter II The Morton Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I CAN hardly describe accurately the exact position of the Masters family without first telling all that I know about the Morton family; and it is absolutely essential that the reader should know all the Masters family intimately. Mr. Masters, as I have said...
Chapter XV A Fit Companion—For Me and My Sisters
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON that same Wednesday, Reginald Morton had called at the attorney’s house, had asked for Miss Masters, and had found her alone. Mrs. Masters at the time had been out, picking up intelligence about the great case, and the two younger girls had been...
Chapter XXIII Poor Caneback
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A CLOSER intimacy will occasionally be created by some accident, some fortuitous circumstance, than weeks of ordinary intercourse will produce. Walk down Bond Street in a hailstorm of peculiar severity and you may make a friend of the first person you meet, whereas you...
Chapter XXVIII Mounser Green
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘So Peter Boyd is to go to Washington in the Paragon’s place, and Jack Slade goes to Vienna, and young Palliser is to get Slade’s berth at Lisbon.’ This information was given by a handsome young man, known as Mounser Green, about six...
Chapter LII Providence Interferes
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE battle was carried on very fiercely in Mr. Masters’ house in Dillsborough, to the misery of all within it; but the conviction gained ground with every one there that Mary was to be sent to Cheltenham for some indefinite time. Dolly and Kate...
Chapter LIII Lady Ushant at Bragton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON the Sunday Larry came into Dillsborough and had ‘his gossip with the girls’ according to order;—but it was not very successful. Mrs. Masters, who opened the door for him, instructed him in a special whisper ‘to talk away just as though he did...
Chapter LVIII The Two Old Ladies
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON the next morning Mrs. Morton did not come down to breakfast, but sat alone upstairs nursing her wrath. During the night she had made up her mind to one or two things. She would never enter her grandson’s chambers when Lady Ushant was...
Chapter LXII ‘We Shall Kill Each Other’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

LADY AUGUSTUS, as she was driven back to Orchard Street, and as she remained alone during the rest of that day and the next in London, became a little afraid of what she had done. She began to think how she should communicate her...
Chapter LXXIV Benedict
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

LADY PENWETHER declared to her husband that she had never seen her brother so much cowed as he had been by Miss Trefoil’s visit to Rufford. It was not only that he was unable to assert his usual powers immediately after the attack made...
Chapter LXXVII The Senator’s Lecture.—No. I.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WEDNESDAY, April 14th, was the day at last fixed for the Senator’s lecture. His little proposal to set England right on all those matters in which she had hitherto gone astray had created a considerable amount of attention. The Goarly affair, with the subsequent...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the end of a fortnight the boys had gone back to school, and Lord Lovel was to reach the rectory in time for dinner that evening. There was a little stir throughout the rectory, as an earl is an earl though he be...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During that night the young lord was still thinking of his future conduct,—of what duty and honour demanded of him, and of the manner in which he might best make duty and honour consort with his interests. In all the emergencies of his short...
Chapter XX
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Countess went into the City to meet her daughter at the Saracen’s Head, whither the York coach used to run, and received her almost in silence. ‘Oh, mamma, dear mamma,’ said Lady Anna, ‘I am so glad to be back with you again.’...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Infinite difficulties were now complicating themselves on the head of poor Daniel Thwaite. The packet which the Countess addressed to him did not reach him in London, but was forwarded after him down to Cumberland, whither he had hurried on receipt of news from...
Chapter VII. An Account of Mrs. Tappitt’s Ball—Commenced
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Butler Cornbury was a very pretty woman. She possessed that peculiar prettiness which is so often seen in England, and which is rarely seen anywhere else. She was bright, well-featured, with speaking lustrous eyes, with perfect complexion, and full bust, with head of...
Chapter IX. Mr. Prong at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Tappitt’s ball was celebrated on a Tuesday, and on the preceding Monday Mrs. Prime moved herself off, bag and baggage, to Miss Pucker’s lodgings. Miss Pucker had been elated with a dismal joy when the proposition was first made to her. “Oh, yes;...
Chapter XVIII. Dr. Harford
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The current of events forced upon Rachel a delay of three or four days in answering her letter, or rather forced upon her that delay in learning whether or no she might answer it; and this was felt by her to be a grievous...
Chapter XIX. Mr. Comfort Calls at the Cottage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Ray, in her trouble occasioned by Luke’s letter, had walked up to Mr. Comfort’s house, but had not found him at home. Therefore she had written to him, in his own study, a few very simple words, telling the matter on which she...
Chapter XXII. Domestic Politics at the Brewery
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the mean time things were not going on very pleasantly at the brewery, and Mr. Tappitt was making himself unpleasant in the bosom of his family. A lawsuit will sometimes make a man extremely pleasant company to his wife and children. Even a...
Chapter XXVII. In Which the Question of the Brewery is Settled
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During the day or two immediately subsequent to the election, Mr. Tappitt found himself to be rather down-hearted. The excitement of the contest was over. He was no longer buoyed up by the consoling and almost triumphant assurances of success for himself against his...
Hester and Pearl
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

So Roger Chillingworth—a deformed old figure, with a face that haunted men’s memories longer than they liked—took leave of Hester Prynne, and went stooping away along the earth. He gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root, and put it into...
Conclusion
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After many days, when time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference to the foregoing scene, there was more than one account of what had been witnessed on the scaffold.

Most of the spectators testified to having seen, on the breast of...
Chapter I of society and civilization
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was...
Baker Farm
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids* would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to...
Brute Neighbors
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

Sometimes I had a companion* in my fishing, who came through the village to my house from the other side of the town, and the catching of the dinner was as much a social exercise as the eating of it.

Hermit. I wonder...
Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world, that those children should have the measles just now,’ said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the ‘go abroady’ trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.

‘And so nice of...
The P. C. and P. O.
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. The garden had to be put in order, and each sister had a quarter of the little plot to...
14 Secrets
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Jo was very busy up in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short. For two or three hours the sun lay warmly in at the high window, showing Jo seated on the old sofa writing busily, with...
18 Dark Days
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than any one but Hannah and the doctor suspected. The girls knew nothing about illness, and Mr Laurence was not allowed to see her, so Hannah had everything all her own way, and busy Dr Bangs...
19 Amy’S Will
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

While these things were happening at home, Amy was having hard times at Aunt March’s. She felt her exile deeply, and, for the first time in her life, realized how much she was beloved and petted at home. Aunt March never petted any one; she...
33 Jo’S Journal
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘New York, Nov.

‘Dear Marmee and Beth:

‘I’m going to write you a regular volume, for I’ve got lots to tell, though I’m not a fine young lady travelling on me continent. When I lost sight of father’s dear old face, I felt a trifle...
34 Friend
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread, and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors. The purpose which now took possession of her was a natural...
37 New Impressions
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

At three o’clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place; for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by...
41 Learning To Forget
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Amy’s lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to...
42 All Alone
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

It Was Easy To Promise Self-Abnegation When Self Was Wrapt Up In Another, And Heart And Soul Were Purified By A Sweet Example; But When The Helpful Voice Was Silent, The Daily Lesson Over, The Beloved Presence Gone, And Nothing Remained But Loneliness And Grief,...
43 Surprises
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Jo was alone in the twilight, lying on the old sofa, looking at the fire, and thinking. It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk; no one disturbed her, and she used to lie there on Beth’s little red pillow, planning stories,...
46 Under The Umbrella
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.

‘I always do take a...
47 Harvest Time
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved; met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters, that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for, Laurie said. The second year began rather soberly, for their prospect did not brighten,...
Chapter II The Solid Side of the Scotch Character
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At ten o’clock the next morning, Mr. Neal—waiting for the medical visit which he had himself appointed for that hour—looked at his watch, and discovered to his amazement, that he was waiting in vain. It was close on eleven when the door opened at...
Chapter X The Housemaid’s Face
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

All was quiet at Thorpe-Ambrose. The hall was solitary, the rooms were dark. The servants, waiting for the supperhour in the garden at the back of the house, looked up at the clear heaven and the rising moon, and agreed that there was little...
Chapter II The Bride’s Thoughts
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

We had been travelling for a little more than an hour, when a change passed insensibly over us both.

Still sitting close together, with my hand in his, with my head on his shoulder, little by little we fell insensibly into silence. Had we already...
Chapter VI My Own Discovery
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Fortunately for me, the landlord did not open the door when I rang. A stupid maid-of-all-work, who never thought of asking me for my name, let me in. Mrs Macallan was at home, and had no visitors with her. Giving me this information, the...
Chapter X The Search
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The fire burning in the grate was not a very large one; and the outer air (as I had noticed on my way to the house) had something of a wintry sharpness in it that day.

Still, my first feeling, when Major Fitz-David left me,...
Chapter XXVII Mr Dexter at Home
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I found all the idle boys in the neighbourhood collected round the pony-chaise, expressing, in the occult language of slang, their high enjoyment and appreciation of the appearance of ‘Ariel’ in her man’s jacket and hat. The pony was fidgety—he felt the...
Chapter LX The Signs of the End
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The servant, appearing the next morning in Anne’s room with the breakfast tray, closed the door with an air of mystery, and announced that strange things were going on in the house.

‘Did you hear nothing last night, ma’am,’ she asked, ‘downstairs in the passage?’...
Chapter IX
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the combat, to the stillness that now reigned around...
Chapter X
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the night of the...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

There...
Chapter the Fifth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Whether Mr. Quilp took any sleep by snatches of a few winks at a time, or whether he sat with his eyes wide open all night long, certain it is that he kept his cigar alight, and kindled every fresh one from the...
Chapter the Sixteenth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The sun was setting when they reached the wicket-gate* at which the path began, and, as the rain falls upon the just and unjust alike,* it shed its warm tint even upon the resting places of the dead, and bade...
Chapter the Fifty-Seventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Chuckster’s indignant apprehensions were not without foundation. Certainly the friendship between the single gentleman and Mr. Garland was not suffered to cool, but had a rapid growth and flourished exceedingly. They were soon in habits of constant intercourse and...
Chapter the Sixty-Fifth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was well for the small servant that she was of a sharp, quick nature, or the consequence of sending her out alone, from the very neighbourhood in which it was most dangerous for her to appear, would probably have been the...
Chapter VI a visit to the hamleys
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Of course the news of Miss Gibson’s approaching departure had spread through the household before the one o’clock dinner-time came; and Mr Coxe’s dismal countenance was a source of much inward irritation to Mr Gibson, who kept giving the youth sharp glances of savage...
Chapter XI making friendship
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
Gibson believed that Cynthia Kirkpatrick was to return to England to be present at her mother’s wedding; but Mrs Kirkpatrick had no such intention. She was not what is commonly called a woman of determination; but somehow what she disliked she avoided, and...
Chapter XIII molly gibson’s new friends
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Time was speeding on; it was now the middle of August,—if anything was to be done to the house, it must be done at once. Indeed, in several ways Mr Gibson’s arrangements with Miss Browning had not been made too soon. The squire had...
Chapter XXII the old squire’s troubles
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Affairs were going on worse at the Hall than Roger had liked to tell. Moreover, very much of the discomfort there arose from ‘mere manner,’ as people express it, which is always indescribable and indefinable. Quiet and passive as Mrs Hamley had always been...
Chapter XXXIV a lover’s mistake
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was afternoon. Molly had gone out for a walk. Mrs Gibson had been paying some calls. Lazy Cynthia had declined accompanying either. A daily walk was not a necessity to her as it was to Molly. On a lovely day, or with an...
Chapter XXXV the mother’s manŒuvre
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
Gibson was not at home at dinner—detained by some patient, most probably. This was not an unusual occurrence; but it was rather an unusual occurrence for Mrs Gibson to go down into the dining-room, and sit with him as he ate his deferred...
Chapter XL molly gibson breathes freely
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

That was the way in which Mrs Gibson first broached her intention of accompanying Cynthia up to London for a few days’ visit. She had a trick of producing the first sketch of any new plan before an outsider to the family circle; so...
Chapter LV an absent lover returns
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

And now it was late June; and to Molly’s and her father’s extreme urgency in pushing, and Mr and Mrs Kirkpatrick’s affectionate persistency in pulling, Cynthia had yielded, and had gone back to finish her interrupted visit in London, but not before the bruit...
5: The Casual Acquaintance
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

At that corner of Battersea Park which is near Albert Bridge there has lain for more than twenty years a curious collection of architectural fragments, chiefly dismembered columns, spread in order upon the ground, and looking like portions of a razed temple. It is...
17: The Triumph
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Not till mid-winter did Barfoot again see his friends the Micklethwaites. By invitation he went to South Tottenham on New Year’s Eve, and dined with them at seven o’clock. He was the first guest that had entered the house since their marriage.

From the very...
Chapter IV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Another year passed on. The waves...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The events recorded in the last chapter took place on a Tuesday. On Thursday afternoon Mary was surprised,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

If I were to choose a spot from which the rising or setting sun could be...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

When the man of office returned to the Heart of Mid-Lothian, he resumed his conference with Ratcliffe,...
Chapter XL
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The summons of preparation arrived after Jeanie Deans had resided...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The islands in the Frith of Qyde, which the daily passage of so many smoke-pennoned steamboats now renders so easily accessible, were, in our...
D’Artagnan Begins to Show Himself
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Athos and Porthos had anticipated, d’Artagnan returned in half an hour. He had again missed his man, who had disappeared as if by enchantment. The young Gascon had run through all the neighbouring streets, sword in hand, but found no one resembling him. Whilst...
Civilians and Soldiers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On the day after these events had happened, as Athos had not returned to them, d’Artagnan and Porthos informed M. de Treville of his disappearance.

As for Aramis, he had requested leave of absence for five days, and it was said that he was at...
The Ballet of ‘The Merlaison’
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The next morning nothing was talked of in Paris but the ball which the magistrates were to give to the king and queen, and in which their majesties were to dance the famous ballet of The Merlaison, which was the favourite ballet...
English and French
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the appointed time they proceeded, with their four servants, to an enclosure behind the Luxembourg, which was reserved for goats. Athos gave some money to the goatherd to keep out of the way; and the valets were ordered to do duty as sentinels....

A...
Concerning the Equipments of Aramis and Porthos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Whilst the four friends were all engaged in looking out for their equipment, there had no longer been any regular meetings between them. They dined, without one another, wherever they chanced to be; and assembled when they could. Duty also, on its side, occupied...
The Second Day of Imprisonment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Her ladyship was dreaming that she had at last defeated d’Artagnan, and was looking on the spectacle of his death; and it was the sight of his abominated blood, flowing beneath the executioner’s axe, which aroused the charming smile that hovered on her lips....

She...
The Execution
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was almost midnight. The waning moon, as red as blood from the lingering traces of the storm, was rising behind the little village of Armentières, which exhibited, in that pale light, the gloomy outline of its houses, and the skeleton of its high...
VII ‘No more of me you knew, my Love!’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Stephen Smith revisited Endelstow Rectory, agreeably to his promise. He had a genuine artistic reason for coming, though no such reason seemed to be required. Six-and-thirty old seat-ends, of exquisite fifteenth-century workmanship, were rapidly decaying in an aisle of the church; and it became...
IX ‘Her father did fume.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Oppressed, in spite of themselves, by a foresight of impending complications, Elfride and Stephen returned along the lane hand in hand. At the door they paused wistfully, like children late at school.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men. Elfride had now resigned...
XIII ‘He set in order many proverbs.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It is London in October—two months further on in the story.

Bede’s Inn* has this peculiarity, that it faces, receives from, and discharges into a bustling thoroughfare speaking only of wealth and respectability, whilst its postern abuts on as crowded and poverty-stricken a...
XVII ‘Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

‘There is Henry Knight, I declare!’ said Mrs. Swancourt one day.

They were gazing from the jutting angle of a wild enclosure not far from The Crags, which almost overhung the valley already described as leading up from the sea and little port of...
XXV ‘Mine own familiar friend.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

During these days of absence Stephen lived under alternate conditions. Whenever his emotions were active, he was in agony. Whenever he was not in agony, the business in hand had driven out of his mind by sheer force all deep reflection on the subject...
XXVII ‘How should I greet thee?’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Love frequently dies of time alone—much more frequently of displacement. With Elfride Swancourt a powerful reason why the displacement should be successful was that the new-comer was a greater man than the first. By the side of the instructive and piquant snubbings she received...
XXXIII ‘O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A habit of Knight’s, when not immediately occupied with Elfride—to walk by himself for half an hour or so between dinner and bedtime—had become familiar to his friends at Endelstow, Elfride herself among them. When he had helped her over the stile she...
XXXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When her husband’s letter reached Grace’s hands, bearing upon it the postmark of a distant town, it never once crossed her mind that Fitzpiers was lying wounded within a mile or two of her still. She felt relieved that he did not write more...
XLV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Weeks and months of mourning for Winterborne had been passed by Grace in the soothing monotony of the memorial act to which she and Marty had devoted themselves. Twice a week the pair went in the dusk to Hintock Churchyard and, like the two...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

At the little town of Vevey*, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel; there are indeed many hotels, since the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travellers will remember, is seated upon the edge of...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

This might moreover have been taken to be the sense of a remark made by her stepfather as—one rainy day when the streets were all splash and two umbrellas unsociable and the wanderers had sought shelter in the National Gallery*—Maisie sat beside...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Sir Claude was stationed at the window; he didn’t so much as turn round, and it was left to the youngest of the three to take up the remark. ‘Do you mean you went to see her yesterday?’

‘She came to see me....
The Other Man
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Old Ballad

Far back in the ‘seventies,’ before they had built any Public-Offices*...
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

In the daytime, when she moved about me,

In the night, when she was sleeping at my side,—

I was wearied, I was wearied of her presence,

Day by day and night by night I grew to hate her—

Would God that she or I...
The Madness of Private Ortheris
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Oh! Where would 1 be when my froat was dry?

Oh! Where would 1 be when the bullets fly?

Oh! Where would I be when I come to die?

Why,

Somewheres anigh my chum.

If ’e’s liquor ’e’ll give me some,

If I’m dyin’ ’e’ll...
The Story of Muhammad Din
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Who is the happy man? He that sees, in his own house at home, little children crowned with dust, leaping and falling and crying.

Munichandra, translated by Professor Peterson.*

The polo-ball was an old one, scarred, chipped, and dinted. It stood on...
Volume I
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

To Dr. LEWIS

doctor,

The pills are good for nothing—I might as well swallow snowballs to cool my reins1—I have told you over and over, how hard I am to move; and at this time of day, I ought to know...
Chapter II
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. My master was Colonel Lloyd’s clerk and superintendent. He was what might be...
Chapter VI
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

In a very short time after I went to live at Baltimore, my old master’s youngest son Richard died; and in about three years and six months after his death, my old master, Captain Anthony, died, leaving only his son, Andrew, and daughter, Lucretia, to...
Chapter III
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

La Motte arranged his little plan of...
Chapter VII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

A few days after the occurrence related in the preceding chapter, as Adeline was alone in her chamber, she was roused from a reverie by a trampling of horses near the gate, and, on ...
Chapter XI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Thou! to whom the world unknown

With all its ‘shadowy shapes is shown;

Who seest appall’d th’ unreal scene,

While fancy lifts the veil between;

Ah, Fear! ah, frantic Fear!

I see, I see thee near!

know thy hurry’d step, thy haggard eye!

Like thee...
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘And Hope enchanted smil’d, and wav’d her golden hair;

And longer had she sung—but with a frown,

Revenge impatient rose.’

The dawn of morning now trembled through the clouds,* when the travellers stopped at a small town...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Is there a heart that music cannot melt?

Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn!

Is there who ne’er the mystic transports felt

Of solitude and melancholy born?

He need not woo the Muse—he is her scorn.’

Towards evening the captain, to...
The Stones of Venice, I (1851)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

The Quarry

Since first the dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains;...
Chapter II
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Contains a Description of a Lady’s Dress in Fashion not much above Two thousand Yearsago.—The Beginning of an Adventure which seems to promise a great deal

Arabella had now entered into her Seventeenth Year with the Regret of seeing herself the Object of Admiration...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A Mistake, which produces no great Consequences—An extraordinary Comment upon a Behaviour natural enough—An Instance of a Lady’s Compassion for her Lover, which the Reader may possibly think not very compassionate

Hervey, who was Master of no great Elegance in Letter-writing, was at first...
Chapter IX
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which a Lover is severely punished for Faults which the Reader never would have discovered, if he had not been told

The Marquis, tho’ he had resolved to give Arabella to his Nephew, was desirous he should first receive some Impressions...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which treats of the Olympic Games

While
Arabella was ruminating on the unaccountable Behaviour of her new Acquaintance, she received a Letter from her Uncle, informing her (for she had expressly forbid Mr. Glanville to write to her), that his Son and...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine is suspected of Insensibility

While these things passed at the Castle, Sir George was meditating on the Means he should use to acquire the Esteem of Lady Bella, of whose Person he was a little enamoured,...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine discovers her Knowlege in Astronomy

Sir
George, who had never missed a Day, during Mr. Glanviile’s Illness, in sending to the Castle, now he was able to see Company, visited him very frequently; and sometimes had the Happiness...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine is engaged in a new Adventure

As Mr. Glanville took a great deal of Pains to turn the Discourse upon Subjects, on which the charming Arabella could expatiate, without any Mixture of that Absurdity, which mingled itself...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A Dispute very learnedly handled by two Ladies, in which the Reader may take what Part he pleases

Mr.
Glanville, who was too much in Love to pass the Night with any great Degree of Tranquillity, under the Apprehensions he felt; it being the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Where the Lady extricates herselfout of herformer Confusion, to the great Astonishment, we will suppose, of the Reader

Miss
Glanville, not having so much Delicacy as her Brother, could not help exulting a little upon this Occasion.

After the terrible Fright you have been...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A Love-Adventure, after the Romantic Taste

Recollecting in a few Moments all that happened to me, I could not choose but be surprised at finding myself treated with so little Severity, considering I was Prisoner to Persons who had been Witnesses of the great...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which it will he seen, that the Lady is as generous as her Lover1

i Passed some Days in this Confinement, melancholy enough: My Ignorance of the Destiny of Sydimiris gave me more Pain than the Sense of my own...