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The Christ Light
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The south-bound mail and express had just pulled away from Bludgitt* station. There had been an exchange of mail bags; sundry freight marked “Abner Rydon, Bludgitt Station, Missouri” had been deposited upon the platform and that was all. It was Christmas eve, a...
Old Aunt Peggy
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

When the war was over, old Aunt Peggy went to Monsieur, and said:—

“Massa; I ain’t never gwine to quit yer. I’m gittin’ ole an’ feeble, an’ my days is few in dis heah lan’ o’ sorrow an’ sin. All I axes is a li’le...
Miss Mcenders
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

An Episode

I

When Miss Georgie McEnders had finished an elaborately simple toilet* of gray and black, she divested herself completely of rings, bangles, brooches—everything to suggest that she stood in friendly relations with fortune. For Georgie was going to read a paper...
At the ’Cadian Ball
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Bobinôt—that big, brown, good-natured Bobinôt—had no intention of going to the ball, even though he knew Calixta would be there. For what came of those balls but heartache, and a sickening disinclination for work the whole week through, till Saturday night came again and his...
Azélie
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Azélie crossed the yard with slow, hesitating steps. She wore a pink sunbonnet and a faded calico* dress that had been made the summer before, and was now too small for her in every way. She carried a large tin pail on her...
A Respectable Woman
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation.

They had entertained a good deal during the winter; much of the time had also been passed in New Orleans...
The Dream of an Hour (The Story of an Hour)
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half...
The Kiss
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

Brantain sat in one of these shadows; it had overtaken him and he did...
The Unexpected
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

When Randall, for a brief absence, left his Dorothea, whom he was to marry after a time, the parting was bitter; the enforced separation seemed to them too cruel an ordeal to bear. The good-bye dragged with lingering kisses and sighs, and more kisses and...
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money,* and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old portemonnaie gave her a feeling of importance such...
An Egyptian Cigarette
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

My friend, the Architect, who is something of a traveler, was showing us various curios which he had gathered during a visit to the Orient.

“Here is something for you,” he said, picking up a small box and turning it over in his hand. “You...
The Red-Headed League
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

I had called upon my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year, and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to...
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes, and ran in this way:

‘Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired* for from the...
The Copper Beeches
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

‘To the man who loves art for its own sake,’* remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph* ‘it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived....
Three Broken Threads
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

SHerlock
Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern...
The Stapletons of Merripit House
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience at Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is the Observation of some antient Sage, whose Name I have forgot, that Passions operate differently on the human Mind, as Diseases on the Body, in proportion to the Strength or Weakness, Soundness or Rottenness of the one and the other.

We hope therefore,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Now the Rake Hesperus had called for his Breeches, and having well rubbed his drowsy Eyes, prepared to dress himself for all Night; by whose Example his Brother Rakes on Earth likewise leave those Beds, in which they had slept away the Day....
Chapter XVI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Barnabas and the Surgeon being returned, as we have said, to the Inn, in order to convey the Thief before the Justice, were greatly concerned to find a small Accident had happened which somewhat disconcerted them; and this was no other than the Thief’s...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As soon as Adams came into the Room, Mr. Barnabas introduced him to the Stranger, who was, he told him, a Bookseller, and would be as likely to deal with him for his Sermons as any Man whatever. Adams,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Leonora was the Daughter of a Gentleman of Fortune; she was tall and well-shaped, with a Sprightliness in her Countenance, which often attracts beyond more regular Features joined with an insipid Air; nor is this kind of Beauty less apt to deceive than allure;...
Chapter XII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Adams, Fanny, and the Guide set out together, about one in the Morning, the Moon then just being risen. They had not gone above a Mile, before a most violent Storm of Rain obliged them to take shelter in an Inn, or...
Chapter I
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding the Preference which may be vulgarly given to the Authority of those Romance-Writers, who intitle their Books, the History of England, the History of France, of Spain, &c. it is most certain, that Truth is only to be found...
Chapter III
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Sir, I am descended of a good Family, and was born a Gentleman. My Education was liberal, and at a public School, in which I proceeded so far as to become Master of the Latin, and to be tolerably versed in the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Gentleman returned with the Bottle, and Adams and he sat some time silent, when the former started up and cried, ‘No, that won’t do.’ The Gentleman enquired into his Meaning; he answered, ‘he had been considering that it was...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Adams, and Joseph, who was no less enraged than his Friend, at the Treatment he met with, went out with their Sticks in their Hands; and carried off Fanny, notwithstanding the Opposition of the Servants, who did all, without proceeding...
Chapter IX
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was almost Morning when Joseph Andrews, whose Eyes the Thoughts of his dear Fanny had opened, as he lay fondly meditating on that lovely Creature, heard a violent knocking at the Door over which he lay; he presently jumped...
Chapter I
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Coach and Six, in which Lady Booby rode, overtook the other Travellers as they entered the Parish. She no sooner saw Joseph, than her Cheeks glow’d with red, and immediately after became as totally pale. She had in her...
Chapter III
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In the Afternoon the Lady sent for Mr. Scout, whom she attacked most violently for intermeddling with her Servants, which he denied, and indeed with Truth; for he had only asserted accidentally, and perhaps rightly, that a Year’s Service gained a Settlement;...
Chapter IV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

All that Night and the next Day, the Lady Booby past with the utmost Anxiety; her Mind was distracted, and her Soul tossed up and down by many turbulent and opposite Passions. She loved, hated, pitied, scorned, admired, despised the same Person...
Chapter IX
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Lady Booby had no sooner had an Account from the Gentleman of his meeting a wonderful Beauty near her House, and perceived the Raptures with which he spoke of her, than immediately concluding it must be Fanny, she began...
Chapter X
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Leonard and Paul were two Friends.’—‘Pronounce it Lennard, Child,’ cry’d the Parson.—‘Pray, Mr. Adams,’ says Lady Booby, ‘let your Son read without Interruption.’ Dick then proceeded. ‘Lennard and Paul...
To Miss Fanny, &c
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Madam,

It will be naturally expected, that when I write the Life of Shamela, I should dedicate it to some young Lady, whose Wit and Beauty might be the proper Subject of a Comparison with the Heroine of my Piece. This,...
A dialogue between Mesdames Bridget and Deborah, containing more amusement, but less instruction, than the former
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Mr Allworthy had retired to his study with Jenny Jones, as hath been seen, Miss Bridget, with the good housekeeper, had betaken themselves to a post next adjoining to the said study; whence, through the conveyance of a key-hole, they sucked in at...
Containing matters which will surprise the reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jenny returned home well pleased with the reception she had met with from Mr Allworthy, whose indulgence to her she industriously made public; partly perhaps as a sacrifice to her own pride, and partly from the more prudent motive of reconciling her neighbours to...
Which concludes the first book, with an instance of ingratitude, which we hope will appear unnatural
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader, from what hath been said, may imagine that the reconciliation (if indeed it could be so called) was only matter of form; we shall therefore pass it over, and hasten to what must surely be thought matter of substance.

The doctor had acquainted...
The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand them most
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It may be wondered that a story so well known, and which had furnished so much matter of conversation, should never have been mentioned to Mr Allworthy himself, who was perhaps the only person in that country who had never heard of it.

To account...
Containing little or nothing
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader will be pleased to remember that, at the beginning of the second book of this history, we gave him a hint of our intention to pass over several large periods of time, in which nothing happened worthy of being recorded in a...
Wherein the history goes back to commemorate a trifling incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The amiable Sophia was now in her eighteenth year, when she is introduced into this history. Her father, as hath been said, was fonder of her than of any other human creature. To her, therefore, Tom Jones applied, in order to engage her interest...
The arrival of a surgeon. His operations, and a long dialogue between Sophia and her maid
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When they arrived in Mr Western’s hall, Sophia, who had tottered along with much difficulty, sunk down in a chair; but by the assistance of hartshorn and water she was prevented from fainting away, and had pretty well recovered her spirits when the surgeon,...
By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of, in the application of the word LOVE
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The infidelity of Molly, which Jones had now discovered, would, perhaps, have vindicated a much greater degree of resentment than he expressed on the occasion; and if he had abandoned her directly from that moment, very few, I believe, would have blamed him.

Certain, however,...
In which a simile in Mr Pope’s period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As in the season of RUTTING (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance which, in the well-wooded forest1 of Hampshire,* passes between lovers of the ferine kind), if, while the lofty-crested stag meditates the amorous sport, a...
Containing several dialogues
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The morning in which Mr Jones departed, Mrs Western summoned Sophia into her apartment; and having first acquainted her that she had obtained her liberty of her father, she proceeded to read her a long lecture on the subject of matrimony, which she ...
Containing the great address of the landlady, the great learning of a surgeon, and the solid skill in casuistry of the worthy lieutenant
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When the wounded man was carried to his bed, and the house began again to clear up from the hurry which this accident had occasioned, the landlady thus addressed the commanding officer. ‘I am afraid, sir,’ said she, ‘this young man did not behave...
In which more of the talents of Mr Benjamin will appear, as well as who this extraordinary person was
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In the morning Jones grew a little uneasy at the desertion of his surgeon, as he apprehended some inconvenience, or even danger, might attend the not dressing his wound; he inquired, therefore, of the drawer, what other surgeons were to be met with in...
Containing better reasons than any which have yet appeared for the conduct of Partridge; an apology for the weakness of Jones; and some farther anecdotes concerning my landlady
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though Partridge was one of the most superstitious of men, he would hardly, perhaps, have desired to accompany Jones on his expedition merely from the omens of the joint-stool and white mare, if his prospect had been no better than to have
Containing several dialogues between Jones and Partridge, concerning love, cold, hunger, and other matters; with the lucky and narrow escape of Partridge, as he was on the very brink of making a fatal discovery to his friend
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The shadows began now to descend larger from the high mountains; the feathered creation had betaken themselves to their rest. Now the highest order of mortals were sitting down to their dinners, and the lowest order to their suppers. In a word, the clock...
In which our travellers meet with a very extraordinary adventure
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Just as Jones and his friend came to the end of their dialogue in the preceding chapter, they arrived at the bottom of a very steep hill. Here Jones stopped short, and directing his eyes upwards, stood for a while silent. At length he...
An apology for all heroes who have good stomachs, with a description of a battle of the amorous kind
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them. However elevated their minds may be, their bodies at least (which is...
Containing, among other things, the ingenuity of Partridge, the madness of Jones, and the folly of Fitzpatrick
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was now past five in the morning, and other company began to rise and come to the kitchen, among whom were the sergeant and the coachman, who, being thoroughly reconciled, made a libation, or, in the English phrase, drank a hearty cup together....

In...
In which the mistake of the landlord throws Sophia into a dreadful consternation
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Fitzpatrick was proceeding in her narrative when she was interrupted by the entrance of dinner, greatly to the concern of Sophia; for the misfortunes of her friend had raised her anxiety, and left her no appetite but what Mrs Fitzpatrick was to satisfy...
Containing a hint or two concerning virtue, and a few more concerning suspicion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our company, being arrived at London, were set down at his lordship’s house, where, while they refreshed themselves after the fatigue of their journey, servants were dispatched to provide a lodging for the two ladies; for, as her ladyship was not then in town,...
The departure of Jones from Upton, with what passed between him and Partridge on the road
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

At length we are once more come to our hero; and, to say truth, we have been obliged to part with him so long that, considering the condition in which we left him, I apprehend many of our readers have concluded we intended to...
The adventure of a beggar-man
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Just as Partridge had uttered that good and pious doctrine with which the last chapter concluded, they arrived at another crossway, when a lame fellow in rags asked them for alms, upon which Partridge gave him a severe rebuke, saying, ‘Every parish ought to...
Relates that Mr Jones continued his journey, contrary to the advice of Partridge, with what happened on that occasion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

They now discovered a light at some distance, to the great pleasure of Jones, and to the no small terror of Partridge, who firmly believed himself to be bewitched, and that this light was a Jack with a lantern, or somewhat more mischievous.

But how...
A dialogue between Jones and Partridge
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The honest lovers of liberty will, we doubt not, pardon that long digression into which we were led at the close of the last chapter, to prevent our history from being applied to the use of the most pernicious doctrine which priestcraft had ever...
Which treats of matters of a very different kind from those in the preceding chapter
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In the evening Jones met his lady again, and a long conversation again ensued between them; but as it consisted only of the same ordinary occurrences as before, we shall avoid mentioning particulars, which we despair of rendering agreeable to the reader, unless he...
In which the thirteenth book is concluded
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth;* by which it may be fairly inferred that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable.

And surely there are no persons who may so properly challenge a right to...
An essay to prove that an author will write the better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he writes
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As several gentlemen in these times, by the wonderful force of genius only, without the least assistance of learning, perhaps without being well able to read, have made a considerable figure in the republic of letters; the modern critics, I am told, have lately begun...
Which we hope will be very attentively perused by young people of both sexes
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Partridge had no sooner left Mr Jones than Mr Nightingale, with whom he had now contracted a great intimacy, came to him, and, after a short salutation, said, ‘So, Tom, I hear you had company very late last night. Upon my soul, you are...
The interview between Mr Jones and Mr Nightingale
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves. For as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely...
What passed between Jones and old Mr Nightingale; with the arrival of a person not yet mentioned in this history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding the sentiment of the Roman satirist, which denies the divinity of Fortune, and the opinion of Seneca to the same purpose, Cicero,* who was, I believe, a wiser man than either of them, expressly holds the contrary; and certain it is,...
A short chapter, which concludes the book
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The long absence of the uncle and nephew had occasioned some disquiet in the minds of all whom they had left behind them; and the more, as, during the preceding dialogue, the uncle had more than once elevated his voice, so as to be...
A further explanation of the foregoing design
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though the reader may have long since concluded Lady Bellaston to be a member (and no inconsiderable one) of the Great World, she was in reality a very considerable member of the Little World; by which appellation was distinguished a very worthy...
Containing some matters which may affect, and others which may surprise, the reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The clock had now struck seven, and poor Sophia, alone and melancholy, sat reading a tragedy. It was The Fatal Marriage; and she was now come to that part where the poor, distressed Isabella disposes of her wedding ring.*

Here the book dropped from...
In which Jones receives a letter from Sophia, and goes to a play with Mrs Miller and Partridge
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The arrival of Black George in town, and the good offices which that grateful fellow had promised to do for his old benefactor, greatly comforted Jones in the midst of all the anxiety and uneasiness which he had suffered on the account of Sophia;...
An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her aunt
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The lowing heifer and the bleating ewe, in herds and flocks, may ramble safe and unregarded through the pastures. These are, indeed, hereafter doomed to be the prey of man; yet many years are they suffered to enjoy their liberty undisturbed. But if a...
What happened to Mr Jones in the prison
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones passed above twenty-four melancholy hours by himself, unless when relieved by the company of Partridge, before Mr Nightingale returned; not that this worthy young man had deserted or forgot his friend; for indeed, he had been much the greatest part of the...
In which the history is continued
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
All worthy, in his last speech, had recollected some tender ideas concerning Jones, which had brought tears into the good man’s eyes. This Mrs Miller observing, said, ‘Yes, yes, sir, your goodness to this poor young man is known, notwithstanding all your care...
Approaching still nearer to the end
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones, being now completely dressed, attended his uncle to Mr Western’s. He was, indeed, one of the finest figures ever beheld, and his person alone would have charmed the greater part of womankind; but we hope it hath already appeared in this history that...
Chapter VI Farewell
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Unwatch’d the garden bough shall sway,       The tender blossom flutter down,       Unloved that beech will gather brown, The maple burn itself away;

Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,       Ray round with flames her disk of seed,       And many a rose-carnation feed With summer spice the humming...
Chapter XI First Impressions
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘There’s iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.’

‘Margaret!’ said Mr. Hale, as he returned from showing his...
Chapter XII Morning Calls
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Well—I suppose we must.’

Mr. Thornton had had some difficulty in working up his mother to the desired point of civility. She did not often make calls; and when she did, it was in heavy state that...
Chapter XV Masters and Men
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Thought fights with thought; out springs a spark of truth From the collision of the sword and shield.’

‘Margaret,’ said her father, the next day, ‘we must return Mrs. Thornton’s call. Your mother is not very well, and...
Chapter XVIII Likes and Dislikes?
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘My heart revolts within me, and two voices Make themselves audible within my bosom.’

On Margaret’s return home she found two letters on the table: one was a note for her mother,—the other, which had come by the post, was evidently...
Chapter XXIV Mistakes Cleared Up
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal’d the walls of my undaunted heart,       Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;—       Yet not the less your servant shall abide,       In spite of rude repulse or...
Chapter VI ‘Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Show not that manner, and these features all, The serpent’s cunning, and the sinner’s fall?’

The chill, shivery October morning came; not the October morning of the country, with soft, silvery mists, clearing off before the sunbeams that bring out all...
Chapter VII Mischances
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘What! remain to be Denounced—dragged, it may be, in chains.’

All the next day they sate together—they three. Mr. Hale hardly ever spoke but when his children asked him questions, and forced him, as it were, into the present. Frederick’s grief...
Chapter XII Looking South
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘A spade! a rake! a hoe!     A pickaxe or a bill! A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,     A flail, or what ye will— And here’s a ready hand     To ply the needful tool, And skill’d enough, by lessons rough,     In Labour’s rugged...
Chapter XIII Promises Fulfilled
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Then proudly, proudly up she rose,     Tho’ the tear was in her e’e, “Whate’er ye say, think what ye may,     Ye’s get na word frae me!”’

It was not merely that Margaret was known to Mr. Thornton to have spoken falsely,—though...
Chapter XV Out of Tune
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘I have no wrong, where I can claim no right, Naught ta’en me fro, where I have nothing had, Yet of my woe I cannot so be quite; Namely, since that another may be glad With that, that thus in sorrow makes me sad.’
Chapter XXII Something Wanting
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Experience, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand; Whence harmonies we cannot understand, Of God’s will in His worlds, the strain unfolds In sad, perplexed minors.’

About this time Dixon returned from Milton, and...
Chapter XXIV Breathing Tranquillity
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘And down the sunny beach she paces slowly, With many doubtful pauses by the way; Grief hath an influence so hush’d and holy.’

‘Is not Margaret the heiress?’ whispered Edith to her husband, as they were in their room alone at night...
Chapter XXVII ‘Pack Clouds Away’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘For joy or grief, for hope or fear, For all hereafter, as for here, In peace or strife, in storm or shine.’

Edith went about on tip-toe, and checked Sholto in all loud speaking that next morning, as if any sudden noise would...
Chapter VI The fair: the journey: the fire
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Two months passed away. We are brought on to a day in February on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair* in the country-town of Casterbridge.

At one end of the street stood from two to three hundred blithe and hearty labourers...
Chapter XV A morning meeting: the letter again
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The scarlet and orange light outside the malthouse did not penetrate to its interior, which was as usual lighted by a rival glow of similar hue, radiating from the hearth.

The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now...
Chapter XXI Troubles in the fold: a message
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Gabriel
Oak had ceased to feed the Weatherbury flock for about four and twenty hours when on Sunday afternoon the elderly gentlemen Joseph Poorgrass, Matthew Moon, Fray, and half a dozen others came running up to the house of the mistress of the Upper...
Chapter XXX Hot cheeks and tearful eyes
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Half an hour later Bathsheba entered her own house. There burnt upon her face when she met the light of the candles the flush and excitement which were little less than chronic with her now. The farewell words of Troy, who had accompanied her...
Chapter XXXVI Wealth in jeopardy: the revel
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

One night at the end of August when Bathsheba’s experiences as a married woman were still new, and when the weather was yet dry and sultry, a man stood motionless in the stackyard of Weatherbury Upper Farm, looking at the moon and sky.

The night...
Chapter XXXVII The storm: the two together
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A light flapped over the scene, as if reflected from phosphorescent wings crossing the sky, and a rumble filled the air. It was the first move of the approaching storm.

The second peal was noisy, with comparatively little visible lightning. Gabriel saw a candle shining...
Chapter LIII Concurritur: horÆ momento
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Outside the front of Boldwood’s house a group of men stood in the dark with their faces towards the door, which occasionally opened and closed for the passage of some guest or servant, when a golden rod of light would stripe the ground for...
Chapter LV The March following: “Bathsheba Boldwood”
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

We pass rapidly on into the month of March, to a breezy day without sunshine, frost or dew. On Mellstock Hill, about a mile and a quarter out of Casterbridge on the London road, a numerous concourse of people had gathered, the eyes of...
I.–ix.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was some two months later in the year, and the pair had met constantly during the interval. Arabella seemed dissatisfied; she was always imagining, and waiting, and wondering.

One day she met the itinerant Vilbert. She, like all the cottagers thereabout, knew the quack...
I.–xi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Next morning, which was Sunday, she resumed operations about ten o’clock; and the renewed work recalled the conversation which had accompanied it the night before, and her back into the same intractable temper.

‘That’s the story about me in Marygreen, is it—that I entrapped ’ee?...
II.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Necessary meditations on the actual, including the mean bread-and-cheese question, dissipated the phantasmal for a while, and compelled Jude to smother high thinkings under immediate needs. He had to get up, and seek for work, manual work; the only kind deemed by many of...
II.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The schoolmaster sat in his homely dwelling attached to the school, both being modern erections; and he looked across the way at the old house in which his teacher Sue had a lodging. The arrangement had been concluded very quickly. A pupil-teacher who was...
III.–viii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Jude wondered if she had really left her handkerchief behind; or whether it were that she had miserably wished to tell him of a love that at the last moment she could not bring herself to express.

He could not stay in his silent lodging...
III.–x.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Jude returned to Melchester, which had the questionable recommendation of being only a dozen and a half miles from his Sue’s now permanent residence. At first he felt that this nearness was a distinct reason for not going southward at all; but Christminster was...
IV.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

However, if God disposed not, woman did. The next morning but one brought him this note from her:

‘Don’t come next week. On your own account don’t! We were too free, under the influence of that morbid hymn and the twilight. Think no more...
IV.–i.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

How Gillingham’s doubts were disposed of will most quickly appear by passing over the series of dreary months and incidents that followed the events of the last chapter, and coming on to a Sunday in the February of the year following.

Sue and Jude were...
V.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was an evening at the end of the month, and Jude had just returned home from hearing a lecture on ancient history in the public hall not far off. When he entered Sue, who had been keeping indoors during his absence, laid out...
V.–vii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

From that week Jude Fawley and Sue walked no more in the town of Aldbrickham.

Whither they had gone nobody knew, chiefly because nobody cared to know. Any one sufficiently curious to trace the steps of such an obscure pair might have discovered without great...
VI.–i.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men welcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their welcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of raiment.

‘The place seems gay,’ said Sue. ‘Why—it is Remembrance Day!...
VI.–viii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Michaelmas came and passed, and Jude and his wife, who had lived but a short time in her father’s house after their re-marriage, were in lodgings on the top floor of a dwelling nearer to the centre of the city.

He had done a few...
VI.–x.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Despite himself Jude recovered somewhat, and worked at his trade for several weeks. After Christmas, however, he broke down again.

With the money he had earned he shifted his lodgings to a yet more central part of the town. But Arabella saw that he was...
XVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Elizabeth-Jane had perceived from Henchard’s manner that in assenting to dance she had made a mistake of some kind. In her simplicity she did not know what it was, till a hint from a nodding acquaintance enlightened her. As the mayor’s step-daughter,...
XXXV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

As Donald stated, Lucetta had retired early to her room because of fatigue. She had, however, not gone to rest, but sat in the bedside chair reading, and thinking over the events of the day. At the ringing of the door-bell by Henchard she wondered...
XLI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Henchard went home. The morning having now fully broke he lit his fire, and sat abstractedly beside it. He had not sat there long when a gentle footstep approached the house and entered the passage, a finger tapping lightly at the door. Henchard’s face...
XLVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile the man of their talk had pursued his solitary way eastward till weariness overtook him, and he looked about for a place of rest. His heart was so exacerbated at parting from the girl that he could not face an inn, or even...
Chapter I A Face on which Time makes but Little Impression
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which...
Chapter V Perplexity among Honest People
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Thomasin looked as if quite overcome by her aunt’s change of manner. “It means just what it seems to mean: I am—not married,” she replied faintly. “Excuse me—for humiliating you, aunt, by this mishap: I am sorry for it. But I cannot help it.”...

“Me?...
Chapter VIII A New Force disturbs the Current
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Wildeve stared. Venn looked coolly towards Wildeve, and, without a word being spoken he deliberately sat himself down where Christian had been seated, thrust his hand into his pocket, drew out a sovereign, and laid it on the stone.

“You have been watching us from...
Chapter VIII Eustacia hears of Good Fortune, and beholds Evil
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the meantime Eustacia, left alone in her cottage at Alderworth, had become considerably depressed by the posture of affairs. The consequences which might result from Clym’s discovery that his mother had been turned from his door that day were not such as she...
Chapter III Eustacia dresses herself under Sad Circumstances
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A consciousness of the vast impassivity in all which lay around him took possession even of Yeobright in his wild walk towards Alderworth. He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it...
I
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias...
XVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Angel
Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed, abstracted eyes, and a mobility of mouth, somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man’s, though with an unexpectedly firm...
XXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

An up-hill and down-dale ride of twenty-odd miles through a garish mid-day atmosphere brought him in the afternoon to a detached knoll a mile or two west of Talbothays, whence he again looked into that green trough of sappiness and humidity, the valley of...
XXVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Her refusal, though unexpected, did not permanently daunt Clare. His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; and it was little enough for him not to know...
XXXV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Her narrative ended: even its reassertions and secondary explanations were done. Tess’s voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no exculpatory phrase of any kind, and she had not wept.

But the complexion even of external things seemed to...
XXXVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

As she drove on through Blackmoor Vale, and the landscape of her youth began to open around her, Tess aroused herself from her stupor. Her first thought was, how would she be able to face her parents?

She reached a turnpike-gate which stood upon the...
XLVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the afternoon the farmer made it known that the rick was to be finished that night, since there was a moon by which they could see to work, and the man with the engine was engaged for another farm on the morrow. Hence...
LV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At eleven o’clock that night, having secured a bed at one of the hotels and telegraphed his address to his father immediately on his arrival, he walked out into the streets of Sandbourne. It was too late to call on or inquire for anyone,...
LVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Angel Clare had walked automatically along the way by which he had come, and entering his hotel sat down over the breakfast, staring at nothingness. He went on eating and drinking unconsciously till on a sudden he demanded his bill; having paid which...
LVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The night was strangely solemn and still. In the small hours she whispered to him the whole story of how he had walked in his sleep with her in his arms across the Froom stream, at the imminent risk of both their lives, and...
Letter I
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Saville, England

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday; and my first task is to assure my dear...
Chapter II
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted...
Chapter III
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

When I had attained the age of seventeen, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.1 I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva; but my father thought it necessary, for the completion of my education,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Clerval then put the following letter into my hands. It was from my own Elizabeth:—

‘My dearest Cousin,

‘You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account. You are forbidden...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events, that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.

‘Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. It surprised...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which...
Chapter XX
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at periods when...
3 The Skin of the Bear
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Colbert handed the Duchesse the letter, and gently drew aside the chair behind which she was standing. Madame de Chevreuse, with a very slight bow, immediately left the room. Colbert, who had recognised Mazarin’s handwriting, and had counted the letters, rang to summon his...
15 Porthos’S Plan of Action
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The numerous individuals we have introduced into this long story is the cause of each of them being obliged to appear only in his own turn, and according to the exigencies of the recital. The result is that our readers have had no opportunity...
16 The Change of Residence, the Trap-door, and the Portrait
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Porthos, intrusted to his great delight with this mission, which made him feel young again, took half an hour less than his usual time to put on his court suit. To show that he was a man acquainted with the usages of the highest...
17 Rival Politics
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On his return from the promenade, which had been so prolific in poetical effusions, and in which every one had paid his or her tribute to the Muses, as the poets of the period used to say, the King found M. Fouquet waiting for...
19 King and Nobility
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The
King endeavoured to recover his self-possession as quickly as possible, in order to meet M. de la Fère with an undisturbed countenance. He clearly saw it was not mere chance that had induced the Comte’s visit. He had some vague impression of its...
53 In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Aramis and Porthos, having profited by the time granted them by Fouquet, did honour to the French cavalry by their speed. Porthos did not clearly understand for what kind of mission he was forced to display so much velocity; but as he saw Aramis...
61 Promises
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Scarcely had d’Artagnan re-entered his apartment with his two friends than one of the soldiers of the fort came to inform him that the governor was seeking for him. The barque which Raoul had perceived at sea, and which appeared so eager to gain...
68 The White Horse and the Black Horse
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

“That is rather surprising,” said d’Artagnan, “Gourville running about the streets so gaily, when he is almost certain that M. Fouquet is in danger; when it is almost equally certain that it was Gourville who warned M. Fouquet just now by the note...
77 An Homeric Song
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It is time to pass into the other camp, and to describe at once the combatants and the field of battle. Aramis and Porthos had gone to the grotto of Locmaria with the expectation of finding there their canoe ready armed, as well as...
78 The Death of a Titan
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the moment when Porthos, more accustomed to the darkness than all these men coming from open daylight, was looking round him to see if in this night Aramis were not making him some signal, he felt his arm gently touched, and a voice...
80 The round of M. De Gesvres
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan was not accustomed to resistances like that he had just experienced. He returned, profoundly irritated, to Nantes. Irritation with this vigorous man vented itself in an impetuous attack, which few people, hitherto, were they King, were they giants, had been able to...
86 The Angel of Death
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos was at this part of his marvellous vision, when the charm was suddenly broken by a great noise rising from the outward gates of the house. A horse was heard galloping over the hard gravel of the great alley, and the sound of...
II a night-round
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Ten minutes after, the little troop went out through the street of Les Bon Enfants,* behind the theatre that Cardinal Richelieu had built in which to play ‘Mirame’, and in which Cardinal Mazarin, more fond of music than of literature, had just...