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Merrylegs
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Mr. Blomefield, the Vicar, had a large family of boys and girls; sometimes they used to come and play with Miss Jessie and Flora, one of the girls was as old as Miss Jessie; two of the boys were older, and there...
A Stormy Day
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One day late in the autumn, my master had a long journey to go on business. I was put into the dog-cart,* and John went with his master. I always liked to go in the dog-cart, it was so light, and the...
Going for the Doctor
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One night, a few days after James had left, I had eaten my hay and was laid down in my straw fast asleep, when I was suddenly awoke by the stable bell* ringing very loud. I heard the door of John’s house...
Reuben Smith
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I must now say a little about Reuben Smith, who was left in charge of the stables when York went to London. No one more thoroughly understood his business than he did, and when he was all right, there could not be a more...
Seedy Sam
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I should say, that for a cab-horse I was very well off indeed; my driver was my owner, and it was his interest to treat me well, and not overwork me, even had he not been so good a man as he was; but...
Poor Ginger
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One day, whilst our cab and many others were waiting outside one of the Parks, where a band was playing, a shabby old cab drove up beside ours. The horse was an old worn-out chestnut, with an ill-kept coat and bones that showed plainly...
The Election
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

As we came into the yard one afternoon, Polly came out, ‘Jerry! I’ve had Mr. B —— here asking about your vote, and he wants to hire your cab for the election:* he will call for an answer.’

‘Well, Polly, you may say that...
Old Captain, and his Successor
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Captain and I were great friends. He was a noble old fellow, and he was very good company. I never thought that he would have to leave his home and go down the hill,* but his turn came: and this was how...
Farmer Thoroughgood and his Grandson Willie
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

At this sale, of course I found myself in company with the old broken-down horses — some lame, some broken-winded, some old, and some, that I am sure it would have been merciful to shoot. The buyers and sellers too, many of them, looked...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He flattered himself on the following day that there was no smiling among the servants when he at least asked for Mrs Miller at her hotel. This lady and her daughter, however, were not at home; and on the next day after, repeating his...
Chapter I: Introduction
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

The subject proposed.—System of indifference—of passive obedience—of liberty.—System of liberty extended.

The question which first presents itself in an enquiry concerning institution, relates to the importance of the topic which is made the subject of enquiry. All men will grant that the happiness...
Chapter VIII: Of the Objection to These Principles from the Influence of Luxury
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

The objection stated.—Source of this objection.—Refuted from mutability—from mortality—from sympathy—from the nature of truth.—The probability of perseverance considered.

There is another proposition relative to the subject, is less to be considered as an assertion distinct in itself, than as a particular branch of...
Chapter I: Introduction
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Nature of the enquiry.—Mode of pursuing it.—Distinction between society and government.

Mr. Locke begins his celebrated Treatise of Government with a refutation of the patriarchal scheme of sir Robert Filmer; and, having thus cleared his ground, proceeds to observe, that ‘he, that will...
Chapter III: Of Duty
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

A difficulty stated.—Of absolute and practical virtue.—Impropriety of this distinction.—Universality of what is called practical virtue—instanced in robbery—in religious fanaticism.—The quality of an action distinct from the disposition with which it is performed—farther difficulty.—Meaning of the term, duty.—Application.—Inferences.

There is a difficulty of...
Chapter IV: Of a Virtuous Despotism
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Supposed excellence of this form of government controverted—from the narrowness of human powers.—Case of a vicious administration—of a virtuous administration intended to be formed.—Monarchy not adapted to the government of large states.

There is a principle frequently maintained upon this subject, which is...
Chapter V: Of Courts and Ministers
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Systematical monopoly of confidence.—Character of ministers—of their dependents.—Venality of courts.—Universality of this principle.

We shall be better enabled to judge of the dispositions with which information is communicated and measures are executed in monarchical countries, if we reflect upon another of the evil...
Chapter XIV: General Features of Democracy
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Definition.—Supposed evils of this form of government—ascendancy of the ignorant—of the crafty—inconstancy—rash confidence—groundless suspicion.—Merits and defects of democracy compared.—Its moral tendency.—Tendency of truth.—Representation.

Democracy is a system of government according to which every member of society is considered as a man and nothing...
Chapter II: Of Religious Establishments
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Their general tendency.—Effects on the clergy: they introduce, 1. implicit faith—2. hypocrisy: topics by which an adherence to them is vindicated.—Effects on the laity.—Application.

One of the most striking instances of the injurious effects of the political patronage of opinion, as it at...
Chapter I: Limitations of the Doctrine of Punishment Which Result from the Principles of Morality
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Definition of punishment.—Nature of crime.—Retributive justice not independent and absolute—not to be vindicated from the system of nature.—Desert a chimerical property.—Conclusion.

The subject of punishment is perhaps the most fundamental in the science of politics. Men associated for the sake of mutual protection...
Chapter VII: Of Evidence
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Difficulties to which this subject is liable—exemplified in the distinction between overt actions and intentions.—Reasons against this distinction.—Principle in which it is founded.

Having sufficiently ascertained the decision in which questions of offence against the general safety ought to terminate, it only remains...
Chapter II: Benefits Arising from the Genuine System of Property
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Contrasted with the mischiefs of the present system, as consisting—1. In a sense of dependence. 2. In the perpetual spectacle of injustice, leading men astray in their desires—and perverting the integrity of their judgments—the rich are the true pensioners.—3. In the discouragement of intellectual attainments.—4....
Chapter VII: Of the Objection to this System from the Principle of Population
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

The objection stated.—Remoteness of its operation.—Conjectural ideas respecting the antidote.—Omnipotence of mind.—Illustrations.—Causes of decrepitude.—Youth is prolonged by chearfulness—by clearness of apprehension—and a benevolent character.—The powers we possess are essentially progressive.—Effects of attention.—The phenomenon of sleep explained.—Present utility of these reasonings.—Application to the future state of...
Chapter III Buying A New Cloak
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Foster’s shop was the shop of Monkshaven. It was kept by two Quaker brothers, who were now old men; and their father had kept it before them; probably his father before that. People remembered it as an old-fashioned dwelling-house, with a sort of supplementary...
Chapter IV Philip Hepburn
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The coast on that part of the island to which this story refers is bordered by rocks and cliffs. The inland country immediately adjacent to the coast is level, flat, and bleak;* it is only where the long stretch of dyke-enclosed*...
Chapter IX The Specksioneer
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

A few days after, farmer Robson left Haytersbank betimes on a longish day’s journey, to purchase a horse.* Sylvia and her mother were busied with a hundred household things, and the early winter’s evening closed in upon them almost before they were...
Chapter XVIII Eddy in Love’s Current
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next morning shone bright and clear, if ever a March morning did. The beguiling month was coming in like a lamb, with whatever storms it might go raging out. It was long since Philip had tasted the freshness of the early air on...
Chapter XXI A Rejected Suitor
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

There were many domestic arrangements to be made in connection with the new commercial ones which affected Hepburn and Coulson.

The Fosters, with something of the busybodiness which is apt to mingle itself with kindly patronage, had planned in their own minds that the Rose...
Chapter XXIII Retaliation
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The public-house that had been chosen by the leaders of the press-gang in Monkshaven at this time, for their rendezvous (or ‘Randyvowse,’ as it was generally pronounced), was an inn of poor repute, with a yard at the back which opened on to the...
The Squire of Allington
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in the less dignified domicile of the two; but it will...
Mrs Roper’s Boarding-House
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I have said that John Eames had been petted by none but his mother, but I would not have it supposed, on this account, that John Eames had no friends. There is a class of young men who never get petted, though they may...
Beautiful Days
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I am well aware that I have not as yet given any description of Bell and Lilian Dale, and equally well aware that the longer the doing so is postponed the greater the difficulty becomes. I wish it could be understood without any...
It Cannot Be
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning at breakfast each of the three gentlemen at the Great House received a little note on pink paper, nominally from Mrs Dale, asking them to drink tea at the Small House on that day week. At the bottom of the...
Mrs Lupex and Amelia Roper
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I should simply mislead a confiding reader if I were to tell him that Mrs Lupex was an amiable woman. Perhaps the fact that she was not amiable is the one great fault that should be laid to her charge; but that fault...
Mr Plantagenet Palliser
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A week passed over Mr Crosbie’s head at Courcy Castle without much inconvenience to him from the well-known fact of his matrimonial engagement. Both George De Courcy and John De Courcy had in their different ways charged him with his offence, and endeavoured...
The Board
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Crosbie, as we already know, went to his office in Whitehall on the morning after his escape from Sebright’s, at which establishment he left the Squire of Allington in conference with Fowler Pratt. He had seen Fowler Pratt again that same night, and the...
Is it from him?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I have already declared that Crosbie wrote and posted the fatal letter to Allington, and we must now follow it down to that place. On the morning following the squire’s return to his own house, Mrs Crump, the post-mistress at Allington, received a...
Dr Crofts is Turned Out
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Have you heard the news, my dear, from the Small House?’ said Mrs Boyce to her husband, some two or three days after Mrs Dale’s visit to the squire. It was one o’clock, and the parish pastor had come in from his ministrations...
Long, Long Ago
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As Dr Thorne is our hero,—or I should rather say my hero, a privilege of selecting for themselves in this respect being left to all my readers,—and as Miss Mary Thorne is to be our heroine, a point on which no choice whatsoever is...
Dr Thorne
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And thus Dr Thorne became settled for life in the little village of Greshamsbury. As was then the wont with many country practitioners, and as should be the wont with them all if they consulted their own dignity a little less and the comfort...
Frank Gresham’s First Speech
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We have said, that over and above those assembled in the house, there came to the Greshamsbury dinner on Frank’s birthday the Jacksons of the Grange, consisting of Mr and Mrs Jackson; the Batesons from Annesgrove, viz., Mr and Mrs Bateson, and Miss Bateson,...
Courcy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Frank Gresham expressed to his father an opinion that Courcy Castle was dull, the squire, as may be remembered, did not pretend to differ from him. To men such as the squire, and such as the squire’s son, Courcy Castle was dull. To...
The Election
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now the important day of the election had arrived, and some men’s hearts beat quickly enough. To be or not to be a member of the British Parliament is a question of very considerable moment in a man’s mind. Much is often said...
The Rivals
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The intimacy between Frank and Miss Dunstable grew and prospered. That is to say, it prospered as an intimacy, though perhaps hardly as a love affair. There was a continued succession of jokes between them, which no one else in the castle understood; but...
Retrospective
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was declared in the early pages of this work that Dr Thorne was to be our hero; but it would appear very much as though he had latterly been forgotten. Since that evening when he retired to rest without letting Mary share the...
Sir Roger Dies
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

That night the doctor stayed at Boxall Hill, and the next night;—so that it became a customary thing for him to sleep there during the latter part of Sir Roger’s illness. He returned home daily to Greshamsbury; for he had his patients there, to...
Post Prandial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank rode home a happy man, cheering himself, as successful lovers do cheer themselves, with the brilliancy of his late exploit. Nor was it till he had turned the corner into the Greshamsbury stables that he began to reflect what he would do next....
What the World Says About Blood
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Beatrice,’ said Frank, rushing suddenly into his sister’s room, ‘I want you to do me one especial favour.’ This was three or four days after Frank had seen Mary Thorne. Since that time he had spoken to none of his family on the...
The Framley Set, and the Chaldicotes Set
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It will be necessary that I should say a word or two of some of the people named in the few preceding pages, and also of the localities in which they lived. Of Lady Lufton herself enough, perhaps, has been written to introduce her...
Griselda Grantly
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was nearly a month after this that Lucy was first introduced to Lord Lufton, and then it was brought about only by accident. During that time Lady Lufton had been often at the parsonage, and had in a certain degree learned to know...
Lady Lufton’s Ambassador
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And then, in the days which followed, that friend of Mr Crawley’s whose name by-the-bye, is yet to be mentioned, received quick and great promotion. Mr Arabin by name he was then;—Dr Arabin afterwards, when that quick and great promotion reached its climax. He...
The Triumph of the Giants
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now about the end of April news arrived almost simultaneously in all quarters of the habitable globe that was terrible in its import to one of the chief persons of our history;—some may think to the chief person in it. All...
Touching Pitch
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In these hot midsummer days, the end of June and the beginning of July, Mr Sowerby had but an uneasy time of it. At his sister’s instance, he had hurried up to London, and there had remained for days in attendance on the lawyers....
Palace Blessings
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now, at this period, terrible rumours found their way into Barchester, and flew about the cathedral towers and round the cathedral door; ay, and into the canons’ houses and the humbler sitting-rooms of the vicar’s choral. Whether they made their way...
Lady Lufton’s Request
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The bailiffs on that day had their meals regular,—and their beer, which state of things, together with an absence of all duty in the way of making inventories and the like, I take to be the earthly paradise of bailiffs; and on the next...
Chapter 16
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Désirée at seventeen still laughed her simple laugh. She had grown into a tall, plump and comely girl with the arms and shoulders of a mature woman. She grew like a strong plant, happily, impervious to the ill fortune that was emptying and darkening...
The Bishop’s Chaplain
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Of the Rev. Mr Slope’s parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr T. Shandy,* and that in early years he...
The Rubbish Cart
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Harding was not a happy man as he walked down the palace pathway, and stepped out into the close. His preferment and pleasant house were a second time gone from him; but that he could endure. He had been schooled and insulted by...
Mr Arabin reads himself in at St Ewold’s
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Sunday morning the archdeacon with his sister-in-law and Mr Arabin drove over to Ullathorne, as had been arranged. On their way thither the new vicar declared himself to be considerably disturbed in his mind at the idea of thus facing...
A Love Scene
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Slope, as we have said, left the palace with a feeling of considerable triumph. Not that he thought that his difficulties were all over; he did not so deceive himself; but he felt that he had played his first move well;—as well as...
Mrs Bold confides her sorrow to her friend Miss Stanhope
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mrs Bold came to the end of the walk and faced the lawn, she began to bethink herself what she should do. Was she to wait there till Mr Slope caught her, or was she to go in among the crowd with tears...
Ullathorne Sports—Act III
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now Miss Thorne’s guests were beginning to take their departure, and the amusement of those who remained was becoming slack. It was getting dark, and ladies in morning costumes were thinking that if they were to appear by candle-light they ought to readjust...
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

I

An older sister came from town to visit her younger sister in the country. The older one was married to a merchant in the town, and the younger to a peasant in the country. One day the sisters were drinking tea and chatting. The...
What Utilitarianism is
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

A passing remark is all that needs be given to the ignorant blunder of supposing that those who stand up for utility as the test of right and wrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in which utility is...
Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

The question is often asked, and properly so, in regard to any supposed moral standard—What is its sanction? What are the motives to obey it? or more specifically, what is the source of its obligation? whence does it derive its binding force? It is...
Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

It has already been remarked, that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term. To be incapable of proof by reasoning is common to all first principles; to the first premises of our knowledge, as well...
Preface
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

Those who have done me the honour of reading my previous writings, will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and...
Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

It has been seen, that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two kinds: danger of a low grade of intelligence in the representative body, and in the popular opinion which controls it; and danger of class legislation on the part of...
Chapter 2 The Statement Of The Case
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Miss
Morstan entered the room with a firm step and an outward composure of manner. She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and dressed in the most perfect taste. There was, however, a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore...
Chapter 10 The End Of The Islander
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Our meal was a merry one. Holmes could talk exceedingly well when he chose, and that night he did choose. He appeared to be in a state of nervous exaltation. I have never known him so brilliant. He spoke on a quick succession of...
His Last Bow An Epilogue Of Sherlock Holmes
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world.* One might have thought already that God’s curse hung heavy over a degenerate earth, for there was an awesome hush and a...
Chapter XIII The Loss of the Brig
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

It was already late at night, and as dark as it ever would be at that season of the year (and that is to say, it was still pretty bright), when Hoseason clapped his head into the round-house door.

‘Here,’ said he, ‘come out and...
Chapter XIV The Islet
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

With my stepping ashore I began the most unhappy part of my adventures. It was half-past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was broken by the land, it was a cold night. I dared not sit down (for I thought I should...
CHAPTER XVII The Death of the ‘Red Fox’
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The next day Mr Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own and was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing. Him he prevailed on to take me, for he was one of his flock; and...
Chapter XVIII I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Alan was the first to come round. He rose, went to the border of the wood, peered out a little, and then returned and sat down.

‘Well,’ said he, ‘yon was a hot burst, David.’

I said nothing, nor so much as lifted my face....
Chapter XXVI End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The month, as I have said, was not yet out, but it was already far through August, and beautiful warm weather, with every sign of an early and great harvest, when I was pronounced able for my journey. Our money was now run to...
Chapter XXVIII I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Made what change I could in my appearance; and blithe was I to look in the glass and find the beggarman a thing of the past, and David Balfour came to life again. And yet I was ashamed of the change too,...
Chapter XXIX I Come into My Kingdom
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

For some time Alan volleyed upon the door, and his knocking only roused the echoes of the house and neighbourhood. At last, however, I could hear the noise of a window gently thrust up, and knew that my uncle had come to his observatory....
Chapter 2 My Mother
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though I do not wish in these pages to go back to the origin of all the Trollopes, I must say a few words of my mother,—partly because filial duty will not allow me to be silent as to a parent who made for...
Chapter 3 The General Post Office 1834–1841
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

While I was still learning my duty as an usher at Mr Drury’s school at Brussels, I was summoned to my clerkship in the London Post Office, and on my way passed through Bruges. I then saw my father and my brother Henry for...
Chapter 8 The ‘Cornhill Magazine’ and ‘Framley Parsonage’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Soon after my return from the West Indies I was enabled to change my district in Ireland for one in England. For some time past my official work had been of a special nature, taking me out of my own district; but through all...
Chapter 13 On English Novelists of the Present Day
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In this chapter I will venture to name a few successful novelists of my own time, with whose works I am acquainted; and will endeavour to point whence their success has come, and why they have failed when there has been failure.

I do not...
Chapter 14 On Criticism
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Literary criticism in the present day has become a profession,—but it has ceased to be an art. Its object is no longer that of proving that certain literary work is good and other literary work is bad, in accordance with rules which the critic...
Chapter 15 ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset’—Leaving the Post Office—‘St Paul’s Magazine’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I Will now go back to the year 1867, in which I was still living at Waltham Cross. I had some time since bought the house there which I had at first hired, and added rooms to it, and made it for our...
Chapter 16 Beverley
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Very early in life, very soon after I had become a clerk in St Martin’s le Grand, when I was utterly impecunious and beginning to fall grievously into debt, I was asked by an uncle of mine,* who was himself a clerk...
Chapter 19 ‘Ralph the Heir’—‘The Eustace Diamonds’ —‘Lady Anna’—‘Australia’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the spring of 1871 we,—I and my wife,—had decided that we would go to Australia to visit our shepherd son.* Of course before doing so I made a contract with a publisher for a book about the Colonies. For such a...
Chapter 6
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

In the middle of November—they had got as far as Capri and Sorrento—Innstetten’s leave ran out, and it was in his character and habits to be back on time to the day and the hour. So on the morning of the 14th he arrived in...
Chapter 16
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The weather was fine, and remained so well into October. One result of this was that the tent-like veranda came into its own, so much so that they regularly spent the mornings there. Towards eleven the Major would usually turn up, first to ask how...
Chapter 3 the archdeacon’s threat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The dinner-party at the rectory comprised none but the Grantly family. The marchioness had written to say that she preferred to have it so. The father had suggested that the Thornes of Ullathorne, very old friends, might be asked, and the Greshams from Boxall...
Chapter 7 miss prettyman’s private room
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Major Grantly, when threatened by his father with pecuniary punishment, should he demean himself by such a marriage as that he had proposed to himself, had declared that he would offer his hand to Miss Crawley on the next morning. This, however, he had...
Chapter 9 grace crawley goes to allington
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The tidings of what had been done by the magistrates at their petty sessions* was communicated the same night to Grace Crawley by Miss Prettyman. Miss Anne Prettyman had heard the news within five minutes of the execution of the bail-bond, and...
Chapter 41 grace crawley at home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the morning after his return from London Mr Crawley showed symptoms of great fatigue, and his wife implored him to remain in bed. But this he would not do. He would get up, and go out down to the brickfields. He had specially...
Chapter 61 ‘it’s dogged as does it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In accordance with the resolution to which the clerical commission had come on the first day of their sitting, Dr Tempest wrote the following letter to Mr Crawley:—

‘Rectory, Silverbridge, April 9, 186—,

‘Dear sir,

‘I have been given to understand that you...
Chapter 82 the last scene at hogglestock
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The fortnight following Mr Harding’s death was passed very quietly at Hogglestock, for during that time no visitor made an appearance in the parish except Mr Snapper on the Sundays. Mr Snapper, when he had completed the service on the first of...
Chapter I: Entrance of the Mississippi—Balize
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

On the 4th of November, 1827, I sailed from London, accompanied by my son and two daughters; and after a favourable, though somewhat tedious voyage, arrived on Christmas-day at the mouth of the Mississippi.

The first indication of our approach to land was the appearance...
Chapter II: New Orleans—Society—Creoles and Quadroons—Voyage up the Mississippi
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

On first touching the soil of a new land, of a new continent, of a new world, it is impossible not to feel considerable excitement and deep interest in almost every object that meets us. New Orleans presents very little that can gratify the...
Chapter VI: Servants—Society—Evening Parties
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

The greatest difficulty in organizing a family establishment in Ohio, is getting servants, or, as it is there called, ‘getting help,’ for it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of...
Chapter XXI: Stonington—Great Falls of the Potomac
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

The greatest pleasure I had promised myself in visiting Washington was the seeing a very old friend, who had left England many years ago, and married in America; she was now a widow, and, as I believed, settled in Washington. I soon had the...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A month went by. Old Fouan, appointed guardian to Françoise, who was entering her fifteenth year, persuaded them—her and her sister Lise, who was ten years older—to rent their land to Cousin Delhomme, except for a parcel of meadow, so it could be...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The very next day, Fouan moved into the Buteaus’. The moving did not give anyone any trouble, since there were only two bundles of old clothes, which the old man was keen to carry himself and for which he made two trips. The Delhommes...
Masks
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

‘Where were we when all this began?’ cried lady Delacour, forcing herself to resume an air of gayety—— ‘O, masquerade was the order of the day — tragedy or comedy? which suits your genius* best, my dear?’

‘Whichever suits your ladyship’s taste least.’...
Ways and Means
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

When lady Delacour repeated to miss Portman the message about ‘simplicity of mind, and dignity of character,’ she frankly said —

‘Belinda, notwithstanding all this, observe, I’m determined to retain Clarence Hervey among the number of my public worshippers during my life — which you...
A Family Party
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

They found lady Anne Percival in the midst of her children; who all turned their healthy, rosy, intelligent faces towards the door the moment that they heard their father’s voice. Clarence Hervey was so much struck with the expression of happiness in lady Anne’s...
A Declaration
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

‘I’ve found it! — I’ve found it! — mamma!’ cried little Charles Percival, running eagerly into the room with a plant in his hand. ‘Will you send this in your letter to Helena Delacour, and tell her that is the thing that gold...
A Wedding
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Belinda and Mr. Vincent could never agree in their definition of the word flattery; so that there were continual complaints on the one hand of a breach of treaty, and, on the other, solemn protestations of the most scrupulous adherence to his...
Reconciliation
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Aware that her remaining in town at such an unusual season of the year would appear unaccountable to her fashionable acquaintance, lady Delacour contrived for herself a characteristic excuse; she declared that there was no possibility of finding pleasure in any thing but novelty,...
E O
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Though Clarence Hervey was not much disposed to see either Virginia or her father, whilst he was in the state of perturbation, into which he had been thrown by his interview with Belinda; yet he did not delay to send his servant home, with...
Chapter I
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars’ unceasing journey when his sidereal clock* shall pretend that time is...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

This was the letter Gwendolen found on her table:—

Dearest Child,—I have been expecting to hear from you for...
Chapter XII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

On the second day after the...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say, ‘Tis all barren;’ and so it is: and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.”—Sterne: Sentimental Journey
*

To say that...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Gwendolen was glad that she had got through her interview with Klesmer before meeting her uncle and aunt. She had...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“II est plus aisé de connoître l’homme en général que de connoître un homme en particulier.”—La Rochefoucauld.*

An hour after Grandcourt had left, the important news of Gwendolen’s engagement was known at the Rectory, and Mr and Mrs Gascoigne, with Anna,...
Chapter LXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Moses, trotz seiner Befeindung der Kunst, dennoch selber ein grosser Künstler war und den wahren Künstlergeist besass. Nur war dieser Künstlergeist bei ihm, wie bei seinen ägyptischen Landsleuten, nur auf das Colossale und Unverwüstliche gerichtet. Aber nicht wie die Aegypter formirte er seine Kunstwerke aus...
The Man in the Bell
Authors: Maginn William
Published: December 2020

In my younger days, bell-ringing was much more in fashion among the young men of ——, than it is now. Nobody, I believe, practises it there at present except the servants of the church, and the melody has been much injured in consequence. Some...
George Dobson’s Expedition to Hell
Authors: Hogg James
Published: December 2020

There is no phenomenon in nature less understood, and about which greater nonsense is written, than dreaming. It is a strange thing. For my part, I do not understand it, nor have I any desire to do so; and I firmly believe that no...
The Squaw
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

Nurnberg* at the time was not so much exploited as it has been since then. Irving had not been playing Faust,* and the very name of the old town was hardly known to the great bulk of the travelling public....
Novel of the White Powder
Authors: Machen Arthur
Published: December 2020

My name is Leicester;* my father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the deadly climate of India. A year later my only brother, Francis, came home after an exceptionally...
The Adventure of Lady Wishaw’s Hand
Authors: Marsh Richard
Published: December 2020

The Legacy

It was a woman’s hand. In life, in its proper place at the end of a woman’s arm, I could easily believe that it had been beautiful. But as it lay before me on the table, amidst the heap of papers in...
V
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Before noon the following day he had bought a paintbox, paintbrushes, an easel. Pellerin agreed to give him lessons, and Frédéric took him to his lodgings to see if he needed any more equipment.

Deslauriers had come back. A young man was sitting in the...
I
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

When he had taken his seat inside the coach, it gave a sudden jolt as the five horses simultaneously leapt forward, and he felt waves of joy sweep over him. Like an architect designing a palace, he planned out his life in advance. He...
IV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The Maréchale was ready and waiting.

‘That’s nice of you!’ she said, gazing at him with her pretty eyes both tender and gay.

When she had tied the strings of her bonnet, she sat on the divan and remained silent.

‘Are we going?’ Frédéric said....
V
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Deslauriers had taken the deed of subrogation* away from Frédéric’s house, along with the power of attorney conferring on him full authority; but when he had climbed up the five storeys and was on his own in the middle of his gloomy...
IV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

When Deslauriers came to see Monsieur Dambreuse, the latter was thinking of reviving his big coal business. But people were very critical of this merging of all the companies into one; they said it was a monopoly, as if, given such huge enterprises, a...
VI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

He went travelling.

He knew the melancholy of the steamboat, cold mornings waking under canvas, the tedium of landscapes and ruins, the bitterness of interrupted friendships.

He came home again.

He moved in society, and he had more love affairs. But the constant memory of...
Chapter IV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

I Am by no means sure that if the good people of Milby had known the truth about the Countess Czerlaski, they would not have been considerably disappointed to find that it was very far from being as bad as they...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The following Wednesday, when Mr and Mrs Hackit were seated comfortably by their bright hearth, enjoying the long afternoon afforded by an early dinner, Rachel, the housemaid, came in and said,—

‘If you please ’m, the shepherd says, have you heard as Mrs Barton’s wuss,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

That evening Miss Assher seemed to carry herself with unusual haughtiness, and was coldly observant of Caterina. There was unmistakably thunder in the air. Captain Wybrow appeared to take the matter very easily, and was inclined to brave it out by paying more than...
Chapter IX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Mr Gilfil, who had a heavy weight on his mind, had watched for the moment when, the two elder ladies having driven out, Caterina would probably be alone in Lady Cheverel’s sitting-room. He went up and knocked at the door.

‘Come in,’ said the...
Chapter XII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘Pray, what is likely to be the next scene in the drama between you and Miss Sarti?’ said Miss Assher to Captain Wybrow as soon as they were out on the gravel. ‘It would be agreeable to have some idea of what is...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The sad slow week was gone by at last. At the coroner’s inquest a verdict of sudden death had been pronounced. Dr Hart, acquainted with Captain Wybrow’s previous state of health, had given his opinion that death had been imminent from long-established disease of...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The conversation just recorded is not, I am aware, remarkably refined or witty; but if it had been, it could hardly have taken place in Milby when Mr Dempster flourished there, and old Mr Crewe, the curate, was yet alive.

More than a quarter of...
Chapter VII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Dempster did not stay long at the Red Lion that evening. He was summoned home to meet Mr Armstrong, a wealthy client, and as he was kept in consultation till a late hour, it happened that this was one of the nights on...
Chapter IX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Tryan showed no such symptoms of weakness on the critical Sunday. He unhesitatingly rejected the suggestion that he should be taken to church in Mr Landor’s carriage—a proposition which that gentleman made as an amendment on the original plan, when the rumours of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In her occasional visits to her near neighbour Mrs Pettifer, too old a friend to be shunned because she was a Tryanite, Janet was obliged sometimes to hear allusions to Mr Tryan, and even to listen to his praises, which she usually met with...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The last week in March—three weeks after old Mrs Dempster died—occurred the unpleasant winding-up of affairs between Dempster and Mr Pryme, and under this additional source of irritation the attorney’s diurnal drunkenness had taken on its most ill-tempered and brutal phase. On the Friday...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Janet lay still, as she had promised; but the tea, which had warmed her and given her a sense of greater bodily ease, had only heightened the previous excitement of her brain. Her ideas had a new vividness, which made her feel as if...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was dusk, and the candles were lighted before Mr Tryan knocked at Mrs Pettifer’s door. Her messenger had brought back word, that he was not at home, and all afternoon Janet had been agitated by the fear that he would not come; but...
The Reality of the Unseen
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto. This...
Dick Calls at the School
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The early days of the year drew on, and Fancy, having spent the holiday weeks at home returned again to Mellstock.

Every spare minute of the week following her return was used by Dick in accidentally passing the schoolhouse in his journeys about the neighbourhood;...
Returning Homeward
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“’A took it very well then?” said Mail as they all walked up the hill.

“He behaved like a man—’a did so,” said the tranter. “And I’m glad we’ve let en know our minds. And though, beyond that, we ha’n’t got much by going, ’twas...
Yalbury Wood and the Keeper’s House
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A mood of blitheness rarely experienced even by young men was Dick’s on the following Monday morning. It was the week after the Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart,* watching the damp slopes...
Dick Meets his Father
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

For several minutes Dick drove along homeward with the inner eye of reflection so anxiously set on his passages at arms with Fancy that the road and scenery were as a thin mist over the real pictures of his mind. Was she a coquette?...
A Confession
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was a morning of the latter summer-time—a morning of lingering dews, when the grass is never dry in the shade. Fuchsias and dahlias were laden till eleven o’clock with small drops and dashes of water, changing the colour of their sparkle at every...
Going Nutting
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Dick, dressed in his second-best suit, burst into Fancy’s sitting-room with a glow of pleasure on his face.

It was two o’clock on Friday—the day before her contemplated visit to her father, and for some reason connected with cleaning the school, the children had...
Under the GReenwood Tree
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The point in Yalbury Wood which abutted on the end of Geoffrey Day’s premises was closed with an ancient tree, horizontally of enormous extent, though having no great pretensions to height. Many hundreds of birds had been born amidst the boughs of this single...
Of the London Street-Folk
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Those who obtain their living in the streets of the metropolis are a very large and varied class; indeed, the means resorted to in order ‘to pick up a crust’, as the people call it, in the public thoroughfares (and such in many instances...
Street-Sellers of Eatables and Drinkables
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Street-Sellers of Eatables and Drinkables

The class engaged in the manufacture, or in the sale, of these articles, are a more intelligent people than the generality of street-sellers. They have nearly all been mechanics who, from inability to procure employment at their several...
Street-Sellers of Second-Hand Articles
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Of the Street-Sellers of Second-Hand Articles

In London, where many, in order to live, struggle to extract a meal from the possession of an article which seems utterly worthless, nothing must be wasted. Many a thing which in a country town is kicked by...
Crossing-Sweepers
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

That portion of the London street-folk who earn a scanty living by sweeping crossings constitute a large class of the Metropolitan poor. We can scarcely walk along a street of any extent, or pass through a square of the least pretensions to ‘gentility’, without meeting...
Destroyers of Vermin
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

The Rat-Killer

In ‘the Brill’, or rather in Brill-place, Somers’-town, there is a variety of courts branching out into Chapel-street, and in one of the most angular and obscure of these is to be found a perfect nest of ratcatchers—not altogether professional rat-catchers, but...
Street Musicians
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Concerning street musicians, they are of multifarious classes. As a general rule, they may almost be divided into the tolerable and the intolerable performers, some of them trusting to their skill in music for the reward for their exertions, others only making a noise...