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Olalla
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

‘Now,’ said the doctor, ‘my part is done, and I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous city, and to give you two months of a pure air* and an easy...
A Gossip on Romance
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance...
The Night Shadows
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its...
Hundreds Of People
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square.* On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried it, as to the...
Two Promises
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he would have been a Professor;*...
The Sea Still Rises
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with the relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame Defarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding...
Calm In Storm
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Doctor
Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until long...
The Game Made
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman’s manner of receiving the look, did not...
The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. And yet there is not in...
The Pickwickians
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry...
Chapter XXXII Describes, far more fully than the Court Newsman ever did, a Bachelor’s Party, given by Mr.Bob Sawyer at his Lodgings in the Borough
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is a repose about Lant Street, in the Borough, which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul. There are always a good many houses to let in the street: it is a bye-street too, and its dulness is soothing. A house in Lant...
Mr. Weller the elder delivers some Critical Sentiments respecting Literary Composition; and, assisted by his son Samuel, pays a small Instalment of Retaliation to the account of the Reverend Gentleman with the Red Nose
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The morning of the thirteenth of February, which the readers of this authentic narrative know, as well as we do, to have been the day immediately preceding that which was appointed for the trial of Mrs. Bardell’s action, was a busy time for Mr....
In which Mr. Pickwick thinks he had better go to Bath; and goes accordingly
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“But surely, my dear Sir,” said little Perker, as he stood in Mr. Pickwick’s apartment on the morning after the trial—“Surely you don’t really mean—really and seriously now, and irritation apart—that you won’t pay these costs and damages?”

“Not one halfpenny,” said Mr. Pickwick, firmly;...
Chapter XXXVII Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller’s Absence, by describing a Soiree to which he was invited and went.—Also relates how he was entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a Private Mission of Delicacy and Importance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Mr. Weller,” said Mrs. Craddock, upon the morning of this very eventful day, “here’s a letter for you.”

“Wery odd that,” said Sam, “I’m afeerd there must be somethin’ the matter, for I don’t recollect any gen’lm’n in my circle of acquaintance as...
How Mr. Winkle, when he stepped out of the Frying-pan, walked gently and comfortably into the Fire
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The ill-starred gentleman who had been the unfortunate cause of the unusual noise and disturbance which alarmed the inhabitants of the Royal Crescent in manner and form already described, after passing a night of great confusion and anxiety, left the roof beneath which his...
Treats of divers little matters which occurred in the Fleet, and of Mr. Winkle’s mysterious Behaviour; and shows how the poor Chancery Prisoner obtained his Release at last
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pickwick felt a great deal too much touched by the warmth of Sam’s attachment, to be able to exhibit any manifestation of anger or displeasure at the precipitate course he had adopted, in voluntarily consigning himself to a debtor’s prison for...
How Mr. Pickwick sped upon his Mission, and how he was reinforced in the Outset by a most unexpected Auxiliary
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The horses were put to, punctually at a quarter before nine next morning, and Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller having each taken his seat, the one inside and the other out, the postilion was duly directed to repair in the first instance to Mr....
Chapter LVI An Important Conference takes place between Mr. Pickwick and Samuel Weller, at which his Parent assists.—An old Gentleman in a snuff-coloured Suit arrives unexpectedly
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pickwick was sitting alone, musing over many things, and thinking, among other considerations, how he could best provide for the young couple whose present unsettled condition was matter of constant regret and anxiety to him, when Mary stepped lightly into the...
Chapter III: Another Man
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As the disappearing skirts of the ladies ascended the Veneering staircase, Mortimer following them forth from the dining-room, turned into a library of bran-new books, in bran-new bindings liberally gilded, and requested to see the messenger who had brought the paper. He was a...
Chapter IX: In which the Orphan Makes his Will
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was...
Chapter XIII: A Solo and a Duett
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The wind was blowing so hard when the visitor came out at the shop-door into the darkness and dirt of Limehouse Hole, that it almost blew him in again. Doors were slamming violently, lamps were flickering or blown out, signs were rocking in their...
Chapter XV: The whole Case so Far
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Bradley HEADSTONE held fast by that other interview he was to have with Lizzie Hexam. In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. It was very soon after his interview with...
Chapter IV: A Happy Return of the Day
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Wilfer had seen a full quarter of a hundred more anniversaries of their wedding-day than Mr. and Mrs. Lammle had seen of theirs, but they still celebrated the occasion in the bosom of their family. Not that these celebrations ever resulted...
Chapter XVI: The Feast of the Three Hobgoblins
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The City looked unpromising enough, as Bella made her way along its gritty streets. Most of its money-mills were slackening sail, or had left off grinding for the day. The master-millers had already departed, and the journeymen were departing. There was a jaded aspect...
Chapter XVII: A Social Chorus
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Amazement sits enthroned* upon the countenances of Mr. and Mrs. Lammle’s circle of acquaintance, when the disposal of their first-class furniture and effects (including a Billiard Table in capital letters), ‘by auction under a bill of sale,’ is publicly announced on a...
Chapter III: The Golden Dustman Sinks Again
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The evening of that day being one of the reading evenings at the Bower, Mr. Boffin kissed Mrs. Boffin after a five-o’clock dinner, and trotted out, nursing his big stick in both arms, so that, as of old, it seemed to be whispering in...
Chapter XI: Effect is given to the Dolls’ Dressmaker’s Discovery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. JOHN ROKESMITH sat at needlework in her neat little room, beside a basket of neat little articles of clothing, which presented so much of the appearance of being in the dolls’ dressmaker’s way of business, that one might have supposed she was going...
Chapter XVI: Persons and Things in General
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon’s first delightful occupation was to set all matters right that had strayed in any way wrong, or that might, could, would, or should have strayed in any way wrong, while their name was in abeyance. In tracing out affairs...
The Author’s Preface to the Third Edition
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Some of the author’s friends cried, “Lookee, gentlemen the man is a villain; but it is Nature for all that;” and the young critics of the age, the clerks, apprentices, &c, called it low, and fell a groaning.’

The greater...
Chapter XI treats of mr. fang the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighbourhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police-office.* The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton-hill, when he...
Chapter XVI relates what became of oliver twist, after he had been claimed by nancy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open space; scattered about which, were pens for beasts: and other indications of a cattle-market. Sikes slackened his pace when they reached this spot: the girl being quite unable to support, any longer,...
Chapter XLIV the time arrives, for nancy to redeem her pledge to rose maylie. she fails
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind. She remembered that both the crafty Jew and the brutal...
Chapter IX Sissy’s Progress
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Sissy Jupe had not an easy time of it, between Mr. M‘Choakumchild and Mrs. Gradgrind, and was not without strong impulses, in the first months of her probation, to run away. It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general...
Chapter III The Whelp
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom. It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been...
Chapter XI Lower and Lower
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.

Mr. Gradgrind, apprised of his wife’s decease, made an expedition from London, and buried her in a business-like manner. He then returned...
Chapter XII Down
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.

He sat writing in the room with the deadly statistical clock, proving something no doubt—probably,...
Chapter IV Lost
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now. In boastful proof of his promptitude and activity, as a remarkable man, and a self-made man,...
Chapter VII A Bird’s Eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-Place; also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Miss
Tox inhabited a dark little house that had been squeezed, at some remote period of English History, into a fashionable neighbourhood at the west end of the town, where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round...
Chapter XV Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a New Pursuit for Walter Gay
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Walter could not, for several days, decide what to do in the Barbados business; and even cherished some faint hope that Mr. Dombey might not have meant what he had said, or that he might change his mind, and tell him he was not...
Chapter XVI What the Waves were Always Saying
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Paul had never risen from his little bed. He lay there, listening to the noises in the street, quite tranquilly; not caring much how the time went, but watching it and watching everything about him with observing eyes.

When the sunbeams struck into his room...
Chapter XXII A Trifle of Management by Mr. Carker the Manager
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Carker the Manager sat at his desk, smooth and soft as usual, reading those letters which were reserved for him to open, backing them occasionally with such memoranda and references as their business purport required, and parcelling them out into little...
Chapter XXVII Deeper Shadows
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Carker the Manager rose with the lark, and went out, walking in the summer day. His meditations—and he meditated with contracted brows while he strolled along—hardly seemed to soar as high as the lark, or to mount in that direction; rather...
Chapter XXVIII Alterations
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“So the day has come at length, Susan,” said Florence to the excellent Nipper, “when we are going back to our quiet home!”

Susan drew in her breath with an amount of expression not easily described, and further relieving her feelings with a smart cough,...
Chapter XXX The Interval Before the Marriage
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Although the enchanted house was no more, and the working world had broken into it, and was hammering and crashing and tramping up and down stairs all day long, keeping Diogenes in an incessant paroxysm of barking, from sunrise to sunset—evidently convinced that his...
Chapter XL Domestic Relations
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was not in the nature of things that a man of Mr. Dombey’s mood, opposed to such a spirit as he had raised against himself, should be softened in the imperious asperity of his temper; or that the cold hard armour of pride...
Chapter XLII Confidential and Accidental
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Attired no more in Captain Cuttle’s sable slops and sou’-wester hat, but dressed in a substantial suit of brown livery, which, while it affected to be a very sober and demure livery indeed, was really as self-satisfied and confident a one as tailor need...
Chapter XLVII The Thunderbolt
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The barrier between Mr. Dombey and his wife was not weakened by time. Ill-assorted couple, unhappy in themselves and in each other, bound together by no tie but the manacle that joined their fettered hands, and straining that so harshly, in their shrinking asunder,...
Chapter LI Mr. Dombey and the World
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

What is the proud man doing, while the days go by? Does he ever think of his daughter, or wonder where she is gone? Does he suppose she has come home, and is leading her old life in the weary house? No one can...
Chapter LVI Several People Delighted, and the Game Chicken Disgusted
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Midshipman was all alive. Mr. Toots and Susan had arrived at last. Susan has run up-stairs like a young woman bereft of her senses, and Mr. Toots and the Chicken had gone into the parlour.

“Oh my own pretty darling sweet Miss Floy!” cried...
Chapter I I am Born
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as...
Chapter III I Have A Change
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The carrier’s horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep the people waiting to whom the packages were directed. I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over...
Chapter V I am Sent Away From Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was quite wet through, when the carrier stopped short.

Looking out to ascertain what for, I saw, to my amazement, Peggotty burst from a hedge and climb into the cart. She took me in...
Chapter XVIII A Retrospect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth! Let me think, as I look back upon that flowing water, now a dry channel overgrown with leaves, whether there are any marks along its...
Chapter XXIII I Corroborate Mr. Dick, and Choose A Profession
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When I awoke in the morning I thought very much of little Em’ly, and her emotion last night, after Martha had left. I felt as if I had come into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that...
Chapter XXX A Loss
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Got down to Yarmouth in the evening, and went to the inn. I knew that Peggotty’s spare room—my room—was likely to have occupation enough in a little while, if that great Visitor, before whose presence all the living must give place, were...
Chapter XLII Mischief
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous short-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of responsibility to Dora...
Chapter LIII Another Retrospect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Must pause yet once again. O, my child-wife, there is a figure in the moving crowd before my memory, quiet and still, saying in its innocent love and childish beauty, Stop to think of me—turn to look upon the little blossom, as...
Chapter LXI I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For a time—at all events until my book should be completed, which would be the work of several months—I took up my abode in my aunt’s house at Dover; and there, sitting in the window from which I had looked out at the moon...
Stave I
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change,* for...
Chirp the First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The kettle began it! Don’t tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn’t say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to...
Chapter Eight Covering a Multitude of Sins
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was interesting, when I dressed before daylight, to peep out of window, where my candles were reflected in the black panes like two beacons, and, finding all beyond still enshrouded in the indistinctness of last night, to watch how it turned out when...
Chapter Fourteen Deportment
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Richard left us on the very next evening, to begin his new career, and committed Ada to my charge with great love for her, and great trust in me. It touched me then to reflect, and it touches me now, more nearly,...
Chapter Eighteen Lady Dedlock
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was not so easy as it had appeared at first, to arrange for Richard’s making a trial of Mr Kenge’s office. Richard himself was the chief impediment. As soon as he had it in his power to leave Mr Badger at any moment,...
Chapter Twenty-Eight The Ironmaster
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Sir Leicester Dedlock has got the better, for the time being, of the family gout; and is once more, in a literal no less than in a figurative point of view, upon his legs. He is at his place in Lincolnshire; but the waters...
Chapter Thirty-Five Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But, this was not the effect of time, so much as of the change in all my habits, made by the helplessness and inaction of...
Chapter Forty-Four The Letter and the Answer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My guardian called me into his room next morning, and then I told him what had been left untold on the previous night. There was nothing to be done, he said, but to keep the secret, and to avoid another such encounter as that...
Chapter Sixty Perspective
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I proceed to other passages of my narrative. From the goodness of all about me, I derived such consolation as I can never think of unmoved. I have already said so much of myself, and so much still remains, that I will not dwell...
4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

All three Yepanchin girls were sturdy young ladies, tall and blooming, with magnificent shoulders, powerful bosoms, and strong, almost masculine arms; as a consequence of their health and strength they naturally enjoyed eating well on occasions, something they took no pains to conceal. Their...
12
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Kolya conducted the prince the short distance to Liteinaya, to a café-cum-billiard room; it was on the ground floor with a door on to the street. To the right, Ardalion Alexandrovich was sitting in a separate cubicle in the corner, like some ancient ...
15
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The maid Katya came in, considerably frightened.

‘Heaven knows what’s going on out there, Nastasya Filippovna; a dozen men have tumbled in, all drunk ma’am, they’re asking to be shown in, they say it’s Rogozhin and that you know all about it.’

‘That’s right, Katya,...
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Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The young man who accompanied the general was about 28, tall and slim, with a fine, intelligent face; his large dark eyes flashed with wit and irony. Aglaya did not even turn round to look at him, but went on with her recitation, affectedly...
4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

As he approached his villa with Rogozhin, the prince was greatly surprised to observe that a numerous and noisy company had assembled on his brightly lit veranda. They were all in high spirits, laughing and shouting, even conducting arguments at the top of their...
6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Vera Ardalionovna had been perfectly correct in what she had told her brother about the evening gathering at the Yepanchins’ villa, where Princess Belokonskaya was expected; the guests were indeed expected that evening; but again she had put it rather more strongly than was...
Chapter I
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah* on her brick platform opposite...
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

There is no invention about this tale. Jukes by accident stumbled upon a village that is well known to exist, though he is the only Englishman who has been there. A somewhat similar institution...
The Phantom ’Rickshaw
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years’ service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two...
At Twenty-Two
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘A Weaver went out to reap but stayed to unravel the cornstalks. Ha! ha! ha! Is there any sense in a weaver?’

Janki Meah*...
PAMELA; or, Virtue Rewarded.
Authors: Richardson Samuel
Published: December 2020

THURSDAY Morning

SOMEBODY rapp’d at our Chamber-door this Morning soon after it was light: Mrs. Jewkes ask’d who it was; my Master said, Open the Door, Mrs. Jewkes!—O, said I, for God’s sake, Mrs. Jewkes, don’t. Indeed, said she,...
Chapter 21
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

It was after sun-up, now, but we went right on, and didn’t tie up. The king and the duke turned out, by-and-by, looking pretty rusty; but after they’d jumped overboard and took a swim, it chippered them up a good deal. After breakfast the...
Chapter 34
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We stopped talking, and got to thinking.

By-and-by Tom says:

‘Looky here, Huck, what fools we are, to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is.’

‘No! Where?’

‘In that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was...
Chapter 35
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

It would be most an hour, yet, till breakfast, so we left, and struck down into the woods; because Tom said we got to have some light to see how to dig by, and a lantern makes too much, and might get...
Chapter 40
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We was feeling pretty good, after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all right, and got home late to supper,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

At half past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. They said their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited, in restless impatience. When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he...
Chapter XV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

A few minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore. Before the depth reached his middle he was half way over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

That was Tom’s great secret—the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday, landing five or six miles below the village; they had slept...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Now to return to Tom and Becky’s share in the pic-nic. They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” “Aladdin’s Palace,” and...
Chapter XI The Portresse’s Cabinet
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It was summer and very hot. Georgette, the youngest of Madame Beck’s children, took a fever. Désirée, suddenly cured of her ailments, was, together with Fifine, packed off to Bonne-Maman* in the country, by way of precaution against infection. Medical aid was now...
Chapter XVI Auld Lang Syne
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night, she kept her own secret; never whispering a word to Memory, and baffling Imagination by an indissoluble silence. She may have...
Chapter XVIII We Quarrel
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

During the first days of my stay at the Terrace, Graham never took a seat near me, or in his frequent pacing of the room approached the quarter where I sat, or looked preoccupied, or more grave than usual, but I thought of Miss Fanshawe...
Chapter XIX The Cleopatra
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My stay at La Terrasse was prolonged a fortnight beyond the close of the vacation. Mrs. Bretton’s kind management procured me this respite. Her son having one day delivered the dictum that “Lucy was not yet strong enough to go back to that den of...
Chapter XX The Concert
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

One morning, Mrs. Bretton, coming promptly into my room, desired me to open my drawers and show her my dresses; which I did, without a word.

“That will do,” said she, when she had turned them over. “You must have a new one.”

She went...
Chapter XXVI A Burial
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

From this date my life did not want variety; I went out a good deal, with the entire consent of Madame Beck, who perfectly approved the grade of my acquaintance. That worthy directress had never from the first treated me otherwise than with respect; and...
Chapter XXVIII The Watchguard
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

M. Paul Emanuel owned an acute sensitiveness to the annoyance of interruption, from whatsoever cause, occurring during his lessons: to pass through the classe under such circumstances was considered by the teachers and pupils of the school, individually and collectively, to be as much as...
Chapter XXXIV Malevola
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Madame Beck called me on Thursday afternoon, and asked whether I had any occupation to hinder me from going into town and executing some little commissions for her at the shops.

Being disengaged, and placing myself at her service, I was presently furnished with a...
Chapter XXXVII Sunshine
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It was very well for Paulina to decline further correspondence with Graham till her father had sanctioned the intercourse, but Dr. Bretton could not live within a league of the Hotel Crécy, and not contrive to visit there often. Both lovers meant at first, I...
Chapter VI London
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The next day was the first of March,* and when I awoke, rose, and opened my curtain, I saw the risen sun struggling through fog. Above my head, above the house-tops, co-elevate almost with the clouds, I saw a solemn, orbed mass, dark-blue...
Chapter III
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I served Edward as his second clerk faithfully, punctually, diligently. What was given me to do, I had the power and the determination to do well. Mr. Crimsworth watched sharply for defects but found none; he set Timothy Steighton, his favourite and head-man, to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

M. Pelet could not of course object to the proposal made by Mdlle. Reuter; permission to accept such additional employment, should it offer, having formed an article of the terms on which he had engaged me. It was therefore arranged in the course of...
Chapter X
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Next day the Morning hours seemed to pass very slowly at M. Pelet’s; I wanted the afternoon to come that I might go again to the neighbouring Pensionnat and give my first lesson within its pleasant precincts, for pleasant they appeared to me. At...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Some weeks passed away; Margaret and I resumed our usual employments and amusements; the life at North Villa ran on as smoothly and obscurely as usual—and still I remained ignorant of Mr Mannion’s history and Mr Mannion’s character. He came frequently to the house, in...
V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The autumn was now over; the winter—a cold, gloomy winter—had fairly come. Five months had nearly elapsed since Clara and my father had departed for the country. What communication did I hold with them, during that interval?

No personal communication with either—written communication only with...
V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mannion! I had never suspected that the note shown to me at North Villa might have come from him. And yet, the secrecy with which it had been delivered; the person to whom it was addressed; the mystery connected with it even in the servant’s...
Book I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: The Twenty-Third of August, 1829

‘Will she last out the night, I wonder?’

‘Look at the clock, Mathew.’

‘Ten minutes past twelve! She has lasted the night out. She has lived, Robert, to see ten minutes of the new day.’...

These words...
Book II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: Fifteen Years After

The church of Long Beckley (a large agricultural village in one of the midland counties of England), although a building in no way remarkable either for its size, its architecture, or its antiquity, possesses, nevertheless, one advantage which mercantile...
BOOK IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: A Plot Against the Secret

Towards the close of the evening, on the day after Mr Orridge’s interview with Mrs Norbury, the Druid fast coach, running through Cornwall as far as Truro, set down three inside passengers at the door of the...
The Second Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

In that part of the city of York, which is situated on the western bank of the Ouse, there is a narrow street, called Skeldergate, running nearly north and south, parallel with the course of the river. The postern by which Skeldergate...
The Third Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

The old Archiépiscopal Palace of Lambeth, on the southern bank of the Thames—with its Bishop’s Walk and Garden, and its terrace fronting the river—is an architectural relic of the London of former times, precious to all lovers of the picturesque, in the...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. From George Bartram to Noel Vanstone

‘St. Crux, September 4th, 1847.

‘My
Dear
Noel,

‘Here are two plain questions at starting. In the name of all that is mysterious, what are you hiding for? And why is everything relating to your marriage...
The Fifth Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Towards eleven o’clock, on the morning of the third of November, the breakfast-table at Baliol Cottage presented that essentially comfortless appearance which is caused by a meal in a state of transition—that is to say, by a meal prepared for two persons,...
Chapter One
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author giveth some Account of himself and Family; his first Inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his Life; gets safe on shoar in the Country of Lilliput; is made a Prisoner, and carried up the Country.

My father had...
Chapter Five
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author by an extraordinary Stratagem prevents an Invasion. A high Title of Honour is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the Emperor of Blefuscu and sue for Peace. The Empress’s Apartment on fire by an Accident; the Author instrumental in...
Chapter Five
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Several Adventures that happened to the Author. The Execution of a Criminal. The Author shews his Skill in Navigation.

I should have lived happy enough in that Country, if my Littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome Accidents; some...
Chapter Six
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Several Contrivances of the Author to please the King and Queen. He shews his Skill in Musick. The King enquires into the State of Europe, which the Author relates to him. The King’s Observations thereon.

Iused to attend the King’s Levee*...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The King and Queen make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author attends them. The Manner in which he leaves the Country very particularly related. He returns to England.

I had always a strong Impulse that I should some time recover my Liberty,...
Chapter Seven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author leaves Lagado, arrives at Maldonada. No Ship ready. He takes a Short Voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His Reception by the Governor.

The Continent of which this Kingdom is a part, extends itself, as I have Reason to believe, Eastward to that unknown...
Chapter One
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author sets out as Captain of a Ship. His Men conspire* against him, confine him a long Time to his Cabbin, set him on Shore in an unknown Land. He travels up into the Country. The Yahoos,* a strange Sort...
Chapter Two
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his House. The House described. The Author’s Reception. The Food of the Houyhnhnms. The Author in Distress for want of Meat, is at last relieved. His Manner of feeding in that Country.

Having travelled about three...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Sometimes on Sundays, when the weather was fine, Camille would make Thérèse go out with him for a stroll along the Champs-Elysées. She would always have preferred to stay in the dank and gloomy atmosphere of the shop; she quickly grew tired and bored...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For two months Thérèse and Laurent struggled on against the anguish generated by their union. They were the cause of each other’s sufferings. Hatred slowly welled up in them both, to the point where they began to look at each other with fury in...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

By four o’clock, the moon had set and the night was pitchblack. Everyone was asleep at the Deneulins’ old brick house, which stood dark and silent, with its doors and windows closed, at the end of a large, unkempt garden which separated it from the...
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was four o’clock in the morning. The cool April night warmed gradually as day drew nearer. The stars started fading in the limpid sky as the first light of dawn tinged the orient with purple. And the black countryside, still sunk in slumber,...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Mean while, the whole neighbourhood was talking about the great thoroughfare which was going to be opened up from the new Opéra* to the Bourse, and which was to be called the Rue du Dix-Décembre. The expropriation notices had been served, and...
Chapter 9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On Monday, 14 March, the Ladies’ Paradise inaugurated its new building with a grand display of summer fashions, which was .to last for three days. Outside, a bitter wind was blowing, and the passers-by, surprised by this return of winter, were hurrying along, buttoning...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the first Sunday in August stock-taking took place, and it had to be finished by the evening. All the employees were at their posts early in the morning as if it was a weekday, and the task had begun behind closed doors, in...
Chapter 13
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning in November Denise was giving her first orders in the department when the Baudus’ maidservant came to tell her that Mademoiselle Geneviève had had a very bad night, and that she wanted to see her cousin immediately. For some time the young...
Chapter 14
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Rue du Dix-Décembre, brand new with its chalk-white houses and the last scaffoldings of a few buildings which were behind schedule, stretched out beneath a clear February sky; a stream of carriages was passing triumphantly along the middle of the new opening, full...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Twelve o’clock had struck and Claude was still working at his painting, when there was a loud and familiar knock on the door. Instinctively and despite himself he picked up the sketch of Christine’s head, which he had been using in retouching the large...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the fifteenth of May, Claude, who had come home from Sandoz’s at three o’clock in the morning, was still asleep at nine when Madame Joseph brought him up a big bunch of white lilac. He knew what it meant. It was Christine celebrating...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

With one last flick of Christine’s feather duster, their installation in the Rue de Douai was completed. Besides the small, inconvenient studio, they had only a tiny bedroom and a kitchen no bigger than a cupboard, and as the studio served as both living-room...
Chapter 9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Since Claude was unable to paint his big picture in the little studio in the Rue de Douai, he decided to rent some sort of shed where he would have plenty of space. He found exactly what he wanted on one of his rambles...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Maxime remained at school in Plassans until the holidays of 1854. He was a few months over thirteen and had just finished the second form. It was then that his father decided to let him come to Paris. Saccard felt that a son of...
Letter III [Written some months after the last.] Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, March 8.*

Dear and Rev. Sir,

Your last letter gave me infinite pleasure: after so long and tedious an illness, how grateful to yourself and to your friends must be your returning health! You have the hearty wishes of every individual...
Letter X Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Queen-Ann-Street, London,* Saturday, April 2.

This moment arrived. Just going to Drury-Lane theatre.* The celebrated Mr. Garrick performs Ranger.* I am quite in extacy. So is Miss Mirvan. How fortunate, that he should happen to play! We would not...
Letter XIX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Saturday Morning, April 16.

Madame
Duval was accompanied by Monsieur Du Bois. I am surprised that she should chuse to introduce him where he is so unwelcome; and, indeed, it is strange that they should be so constantly together: though I believe I should...
Letter XXI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

I have a volume to write, of the adventures of yesterday.

In the afternoon,—at Berry Hill, I should have said the evening, for it was almost six o’clock,—while Miss Mirvan and I were dressing for the opera, and in high spirits, from the...
Letter V Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard-Grove, May 18.

Well, my dear Sir, all is now over! the letter so anxiously expected, is at length arrived, and my doom is fixed. The various feelings which oppress me, I have not language to describe; nor need I,—you know my heart, you...
Letter VII Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, May 27.

Dear Madam,

I believe your Ladyship will not be surprised at hearing I have had a visit from Madame Duval, as I doubt not her having made known her intention before she left Howard Grove. I would gladly have...
Letter VIII Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, May 28.

With a reluctance which occasions me inexpressible uneasiness, I have been almost compelled to consent that my Evelina should quit the protection of the hospitable and respectable Lady Howard, and accompany Madame Duval to a city to which...
Letter XIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, June 13th.

Yesterday all the Branghtons dined here.

Our conversation was almost wholly concerning the adventure of the day before. Mr. Branghton said, that his first thought was instantly to turn his lodger out of doors, ‘Lest,’ continued he, ‘his killing himself in my...
Letter XV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, June 17th.

Yesterday Mr. Smith carried his point, of making a party for Vauxhall, consisting of Madame Duval, M. Du Bois, all the Branghtons, Mr. Brown, himself,—and me!—for I find all endeavours vain to escape any thing which these people desire I should...
Letter XVI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, June 18th.

Madame
Duval rose very late this morning, and, at one o’clock, we had but just breakfasted, when Miss Branghton, her brother, Mr. Smith, and Monsieur Du Bois, called to enquire after our healths.

This civility in young Branghton, I much suspect, was...
Letter XXI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, July 1, 5 o’clock in the morn.

O sir, what an adventure have I to write!—all night it has occupied my thoughts, and I am now risen thus early, to write it to you.

Yesterday it was settled that we should spend...
Letter XXII Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, July 1.

Listless, uneasy, and without either spirit or courage to employ myself, from the time I had finished my last letter, I indolently seated myself at the window, where, while I waited Madame Duval’s summons to breakfast, I perceived, among the carriages...
Letter II Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Bristol Hotwell, Sept. 16.

Oh Sir, Lord Orville is still himself! still, what from the moment I beheld, I believed him to be, all that is amiable in man! and your happy Evelina, restored at once to spirits and tranquillity, is no longer sunk...
Letter X Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, October 1st.

I have only time, my dearest Sir, for three words, to overtake my last letter, and prevent your expecting me immediately; for, when I communicated my intention to Mrs. Selwyn, she would not hear of it, and declared it would...
Letter XIII [Inclosed in the preceding Letter] Lady Belmont to Sir John Belmont
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

In the firm hope that the moment of anguish which approaches will prove the period of my sufferings, once more I address myself to Sir John Belmont, in behalf of the child, who, if it survives its mother, will hereafter be the bearer of...
Letter XXI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, October 13.

The time approaches now, when I hope we shall meet,—yet I cannot sleep,—great joy is as restless as sorrow,—and therefore I will continue my journal.

As I had never had any opportunity of seeing Bath, a party was formed last night for...