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Chapter XLII The Way Out
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Breakfast was just over. Blanche, seeing a pleasantly-idle morning before her, proposed to Arnold to take a stroll in the grounds.

The garden was bright with sunshine; and the bride was bright with good humour. She caught her uncle’s eye, looking at her admiringly, and...
Chapter XLIII The News from Glasgow
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The letters to Lady Lundie and to Mr Crum having been dispatched on Monday, the return of the post might be looked for on Wednesday afternoon, at Ham Farm.

Sir Patrick and Arnold held more than one private consultation, during the interval, on the delicate...
Chapter XLVII The Smoking-Room Window
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘I can’t believe it! I won’t believe it! You’re trying to part me from my husband—you’re trying to set me against my dearest friend. It’s infamous. It’s horrible. What have I done to you? Oh, my head! my head! Are you trying to...
Chapter L The Foot-Race
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

A Solitary foreigner, drifting about London, drifted towards Fulham on the day of the Foot-Race.

Little by little, he found himself involved in the current of a throng of impetuous English people, all flowing together towards one given point, and all decorated alike with colours...
Chapter LIII The Place
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Early in the present century, it was generally reported, among the neighbours of one Reuben Limbrick, that he was in a fair way to make a comfortable little fortune by dealing in Salt.

His place of abode was in Staffordshire, on a morsel of freehold...
Chapter LVI The Proposal
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Towards sunset, Lady Holchester’s carriage drew up before the gate of the cottage.

Three persons occupied the carriage. Lady Holchester; her eldest son (now Lord Holchester); and Sir Patrick Lundie.

‘Will you wait in the carriage, Sir Patrick?’ said Julius. ‘Or will you come...
Chapter LVII The Apparition
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The night had advanced. It was close on twelve o’clock, when Anne heard the servant’s voice, outside her bedroom door, asking leave to speak with her for a moment.

‘What is it?’

‘The gentleman downstairs wishes to see you, ma’am.’

‘Do you mean Mr Delamayn’s...
Chapter LXII The End
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At a few minutes before six o’clock, that evening, Lord Holchester’s carriage brought Geoffrey and Anne back to the cottage.

Geoffrey prevented the servant from ringing at the gate. He had taken the key with him, when he left home earlier in the day. Having...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion. During the occurrence of the deadly encounter just related, the roar of the falls was unbroken by...
Barnaby Rudge
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Chapter the First

In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill* or rather from the spot on or near to which...
Mr. Ralph Nickleby receives Sad Tidings of his Brother, but bears up nobly against the Intelligence communicated to him. The Reader is informed how he liked Nicholas, who is herein introduced, and how kindly he proposed to make his Fortune at once
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Having rendered his zealous assistance towards despatching the lunch, with all that promptitude and energy which are among the most important qualities that men of business can possess, Mr. Ralph Nickleby took a cordial farewell of his fellow speculators, and bent his steps westward...
Follows the Fortunes of Miss Nickleby
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was with a heavy heart, and many sad forebodings which no effort could banish, that Kate Nickleby, on the morning appointed for the commencement of her engagement with Madame Mantalini, left the city when its clocks yet wanted a quarter of an hour...
Nicholas, accompanied by Smike, sallies forth to seek his Fortune. He encounters Mr. Vincent Crummles; and who he was, is herein made manifest
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled to, JL either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, after paying his rent and settling with the broker from whom he had hired his poor furniture, did not exceed, by more than a few half-pence, the...
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and positively his last Appearance on this Stage
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was with a very sad and heavy heart, oppressed by many painful ideas, that Nicholas retraced his steps eastward and betook himself to the counting-house of Cheeryble Brothers. Whatever the idle hopes he had suffered himself to entertain, whatever the pleasant visions which...
Involves a serious Catastrophe
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The little race-course at Hampton was in the full tide and height of its gaiety; the day as dazzling as day could be, the sun high in the cloudless sky, and shining in its fulles. splendour. Every gaudy colour that fluttered in the air...
How Ralph Nickleby’s Auxiliary went about his Work, and how he prospered with it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a dark, wet, gloomy night in autumn, when in an upper room of a mean house situated in an obscure street or rather court near Lambeth, there sat, all alone, a one-eyed man grotesquely habited, either for lack of better garments or...
Conclusion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When her term of mourning had expired, Madeline gave her hand and fortune to Nicholas; and, on the same day and at the same time, Kate became Mrs. Frank Cheeryble. It was expected that Tim Linkinwater and Miss La Creevy would have made a...
Chapter the Thirteenth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Daniel
Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attorneys* of the Courts of King's Bench* and Common Pleas* at Westminster and a solicitor of the...
Chapter the Fifteenth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Often, while they were yet pacing the silent streets of the town on the morning of their departure, the child trembled with a mingled sensation of hope and fear as in some far-off figure imperfectly seen in the clear distance, her fancy traced a...
Chapter the Twenty-Fourth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was not until they were quite exhausted and could no longer maintain the pace at which they had fled from the race-ground, that the old man and the child ventured to stop, and sit down to rest upon the borders of...
Chapter the Thirty-Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Jarley’s wrath on first learning that she had been threatened with the indignity of Stocks and Penance, passed all description. The genuine and only Jarley exposed to public scorn, jeered by children, and flouted by beadles! The delight of...
Chapter the Thirty-Eighth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

IT—for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to our ease and inclination as to call upon us imperatively to pursue the track we...
Chapter the Forty-Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It behoves us to leave Kit for a while, thoughtful and expectant, and to follow the fortunes of little Nell; resuming the thread of the narrative at the point where it was left some chapters back.

In one of those wanderings in the evening time,...
Chapter the Forty-Eighth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Popular rumour concerning the single gentleman and his errand, travelling from mouth to mouth, and waxing stronger in the marvellous as it was bandied about—for your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb,* is one which gathers a deal of...
Chapter the Fifty-Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

After a long time, the schoolmaster appeared at the wicket-gate of the churchyard, and hurried towards them; jingling in his hand, as he came along, a bundle of rusty keys. He was quite breathless with pleasure and haste when he reached the porch, and...
Chapter the Fifty-Eighth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Swiveller and his partner played several rubbers with varying success, until the loss of three sixpences, the gradual sinking of the purl, and the striking of ten o’clock, combined to render that gentleman mindful of the flight of Time, and the...
Chapter the Fifty-Ninth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Kit, having discharged his errand, came down-stairs from the single gentleman's apartment after the lapse of a quarter of an hour or so, Mr. Sampson Brass was alone in the office. He was not singing as usual, nor was he seated at his...
Chapter the Sixty-Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The professional gentleman who had given Kit that consolatory piece of information relative to the settlement of his trifle of business at the Old Bailey,* and the probability of its being very soon disposed of, turned out to be quite correct in...
Chapter the Seventieth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Day broke, and found them still upon their way. Since leaving home, they had halted here and there for necessary refreshment, and had frequently been delayed, especially in the night time, by waiting for fresh horses. They had made no other stoppages, but the...
Chapter XIX cynthia’s arrival
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Molly’s father was not at home when she returned; and there was no one to give her a welcome. Mrs Gibson was out paying calls, the servants told Molly. She went upstairs to her own room, meaning to unpack and arrange her borrowed books....
Chapter XXXIII brightening prospects
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was a day or two afterwards, that Mr Gibson made time to ride round by Hamley, desirous to learn more exact particulars of this scheme for Roger than he could obtain from any extraneous source, and rather puzzled to know whether he should...
Chapter XXXIX secret thoughts ooze out
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Molly found Cynthia in the drawing-room, standing in the bow-window, looking out on the garden. She started as Molly came up to her.

‘Oh, Molly,’ said she, putting her arms out towards her, ‘I am always so glad to have you with me!’

It was...
Chapter XLVIII an innocent culprit
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

With his head bent down—as if he were facing some keen-blowing wind—and yet there was not a breath of air stirring-Mr Gibson went swiftly to his own home. He rang at the doorbell; an unusual proceeding on his part. Maria opened the door. ‘Go...
Chapter LVI ‘off with the old love, and on with the new.’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next morning saw Mrs Gibson in a much more contented frame of mind. She had written and posted her letter, and the next thing was to keep Cynthia in what she called a reasonable state, or, in other words, to try and cajole...
Chapter LVIII reviving hopes and brightening prospects
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘If you can without fatigue, dear, do come down to dinner today; you’ll then see the people one by one as they appear, instead of having to encounter a crowd of strangers. Hollingford will be here too. I hope you’ll find it pleasant.’...

So...
Chapter I
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In the troubled twilight of a March evening ten years ago, an old man, whose equipment and bearing suggested that he was fresh from travel, walked slowly across Clerkenwell Green*, and by the graveyard of St. James’s Church stood for a moment...
Chapter V
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

At ten o’clock next morning Mrs. Peckover reacted home. She was a tall, big-boned woman of fifty, with an arm like a coalheaver’s. She had dark hair, which shone and was odorous with unguents ; a sallow, uncomely face, and a handsome moustache. Her...
Chapter IX
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Through the day and through the evening Clara Hewett had her place behind Mrs. Tubbs’s bar. For daylight wear, the dress which had formerly been her best was deemed sufficient ; it was simple, but not badly made, and became her figure. Her evening...
Chapter X
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Dubing these summer months Sidney Kirkwood’s visits to the house in Clerkenwell Close were comparatively rare. It was not his own wish to relax in any degree the close friendship so long subsisting between the Hewetts and himself, but from the day of Clara’s...
Chapter XII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

So at lengtli came Monday, the first Monday in August, a day gravely set apart for the repose and recreation of multitudes who neither know how to rest nor how to refresh themselves with pastime. To-day will the slaves of industrialism don the pileus...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

The bells of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, ring melodies in intervals of the pealing for service-time. One morning of spring their music, like the rain that fell intermittently, was flung westwards by the boisterous wind, away over Clerkenwell Close, until the notes failed one by...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘ Will it be late before he comes back ? ’ asked Sidney, his smile of greeting shadowed with disappointment.

‘ Not later than half-past ten, he said.’

Sidney turned his face to the stairs. The homeward prospect was dreary after that glimpse of the...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Visiting his friends as usual on Sunday evening, Sidney Kirkwood felt, before he had been many minutes in the room, that something unwonted was troubling the quiet he always found here. Michael Snowdon was unlike himself, nervously inattentive, moving frequently, indisposed to...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

There is no accounting for tastes. Sidney Kirkwood, spending his Sunday evening in a garden away there in the chaw-bacon regions of Essex, where it was so deadly quiet that you could hear the flutter of a bird’s wing or the rustle of a...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Joseph
Snowdon, though presenting a calm countenance to the world and seeming to enjoy comparative prosperity, was in truth much harassed by the difficulties of his position. Domestic troubles he had anticipated, but the unforeseen sequel of his marriage resulted in a martyrdom...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘ I Have got your letter, hut it tells me no more than the last did. Why don’t you say plainly what you mean ? I suppose it’s something you are ashamed of. You say that there’s a chance for me of earning...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Bessie Byass and her husband had, as you may suppose, devoted many an hour to intimate gossip on the affairs of their top-floor lodgers. Having no relations with Clerkenwell Close, they did not even hear the rumours which spread from Mrs. Feckover’s house at...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In the dreary days when autumn is being choked by the first fogs, Sidney Kirkwood had to bestir himself and to find new lodgings. The cheerless task came upon him just when he had already more than sufficient trouble, and to tear himself out...
3: An Independent Woman
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Virginia’S reply to Miss Nunn’s letter brought another note next morning—Saturday. It was to request a call from the sisters that same afternoon.

Alice, unfortunately, would not be able to leave home. Her disorder had become a feverish cold, caught, doubtless, between open window and...
7: A Social Advance
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

A Week’s notice to her employers would release Monica from the engagement in Walworth Road; such notice must be given on Monday, so that, if she could at once make up her mind to accept Miss Barfoot’s offer, the coming week would be...
8: Cousin Everard
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

As Miss Barfoot’s eye fell on the letters brought to her at breakfast time, she uttered an exclamation, doubtful in its significance. Rhoda Nunn, who rarely had a letter from any one, looked up inquiringly.

‘I am greatly mistaken if that isn’t my cousin Everard’s...
14: Motives Meeting
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

When Barfoot made his next evening call, Rhoda did not appear. He sat for some time in pleasant talk with his cousin, no reference whatever being made to Miss Nunn; then at length, beginning to fear that he would not see her, he inquired...
30: Retreat with Honour
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Alighting, on his return to London, at the Savoy Hotel, Barfoot insensibly prolonged his stay there. For the present he had no need of a more private dwelling; he could not see more than a few days ahead; his next decisive step was as...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The day arrived on which...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

No sooner...
IvanhoeChapter I
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don,...
Chapter V
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

A damn’d cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life!

When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy already there. ‘Your love-suit,’ said De Bracy, ‘hath, I suppose, been disturbed, like...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The captive Abbot’s features and manners exhibited a whimsical...
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of Templestowe, about...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When the first moments of surprise were over, Wilfred of Ivanhoe demanded of the Grand Master, as judge of the field, if he had manfully and rightfully done his duty in the combat?...

‘Manfully...
The Antechamber of M. de Treville
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. de Troisvtlle, as his family was yet called in Gascony, or M. de Treville, as he called himself in Paris, had actually begun life like d’Artagnan; that is to say, without being worth a sou, but with that fund of audacity, esprit,...
The Bonancieux Household
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was the second time that the cardinal had recalled the king’s attention to these diamond studs. His majesty had been struck by this circumstance, and supposed that the recommendation concealed some mystery.

More than once had his majesty been annoyed that the cardinal’s police—which,...
The Appointment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’artagnan ran the whole of the way home; and, although it was three in the morning, and he had to pass through the worst parts of Paris, he met with no misadventure. There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers....

He...
An Attorney’s Dinner
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The duel, in which Porthos had played such a brilliant part, had not made him forget the dinner to which the attorney’s wife had invited him. The next day, therefore, at about one o’clock, having received the last polish from Mousqueton’s brush, he proceeded...
All Cats are alike Gray in the Dark
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The evening, so impatiently expected by d’Artagnan, at length arrived.

At about nine o’clock he went, as usual, to her ladyship’s, and, as he found her in a charming humour, he was received more graciously than ever. Our Gascon saw, at the first glance, that...
The Utility of Stove Funnels
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was evident, that, unconsciously, and moved solely by their chivalrous and adventurous character, our three friends had rendered a service to some one whom the cardinal honoured with his own especial protection.

But, who was that some one? This was the question which our...
A Drop of Water
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Scarcely had Rochefort left, before Madame Bonancieux returned. She found her ladyship with a smiling countenance.

‘Well,’ said the young woman, ‘what you feared has happened. This evening, or to-morrow, the cardinal will send for you.’

‘How do you know that?’ asked her ladyship.

‘I...
The Man in the Red Cloak
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief, which made the brilliant qualities of the man even more lucid. Entirely engrossed by one thought—that of the promise he had made, and of the responsibility he had undertaken—he was the last to...
XIX ‘Love was in the next degree.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Knight had none of those light familiarities of speech which, by judicious touches of epigrammatic flattery, obliterate a woman’s recollection of the speaker’s abstract opinions. So no more was said by either on the subject of hair, eyes, or development. Elfride’s mind had been...
XXXVII ‘After many days.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Knight roamed south, under colour of studying Continental antiquities.

He paced the lofty aisles of Amiens, loitered by Ardennes Abbey, climbed into the strange towers of Laon, analyzed Noyon and Rheims. Then he went to Chartres, and examined its scaly spires and quaint carving: then...
II
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the room from which this cheerful blaze proceeded he beheld a girl seated on a willow chair, and busily working by the light of the fire, which was ample, and of wood. With a bill-hook in one hand, and a leather glove much...
IV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child. The woodlanders everywhere had already bestirred themselves, rising this month of the year at the far less...
V
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Winterborne sped on his way to Sherton-Abbas without elation and without discomposure. Had he regarded his inner self spectacularly, as lovers are now daily more wont to do, he might have felt pride in the discernment of a somewhat rare power in him—that of...
VI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Winterborne and Grace Melbury had also undergone their little experiences.

As he drove off with her out of the town the glances of people fell upon them, the younger thinking that Mr. Winterborne was in a pleasant place, and wondering in what relation he...
XI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“’Tis a pity—a thousand pities!” her father kept saying next morning at breakfast, Grace being still in her bedroom.

Here was the fact which could not be disguised: since seeing what an immense change her last twelvemonths of absence had produced in his daughter, after...
XXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Winterborne had given up his house. On this account his face was seen but fitfully in Hintock; and he would probably have disappeared from the place altogether but for his slight business connection with Melbury, on whose premises Giles kept his cider-making apparatus now...
XXVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A week had passed, and Mrs. Charmond had left Hintock House. Middleton Abbey, the place of her sojourn, was about a dozen miles distant by road; a little less by bridle-paths and footways.

Grace observed for the first time that her husband was restless, that...
XXXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

There was agitation that day in the lives of all whom these matters concerned. It was not till the Hintock dinner-time—one o’clock—that Grace discovered her father’s absence from the house after a departure in the morning under somewhat unusual conditions. By a little reasoning...
XLII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next morning Grace was at the window early. She felt determined to see him somehow that day, and prepared his breakfast eagerly. Eight o’clock struck, and she then remembered that he had not come to arouse her by a knocking as usual, her...
XLIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

She re-entered the hut, flung off her bonnet and cloak, and approached the sufferer. He had begun anew those terrible mutterings, and his hands were cold. As soon as she saw him there returned to her that agony of mind which the stimulus of...
XLVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The woods were uninteresting, and Grace stayed indoors a great deal. She became quite a student, reading more than she had done since her marriage. But her seclusion was always broken for the periodical visit to Winterborne’s grave with Marty, which was kept up...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Those occasions on which Strether was, in association with the exile from Milrose, to see the sacred rage glimmer through would doubtless have their due periodicity; but our friend had meanwhile to find names for many other matters. On no evening of his life...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether called, his second morning in Paris, on the bankers of the Rue Scribe* to whom his letter of credit was addressed, and he made this visit attended by Waymarsh, in whose company he had crossed from London two days before....
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether told Waymarsh all about it that very evening, on their dining together at the hotel; which needn’t have happened, he was all the while aware, hadn’t he chosen to sacrifice on this occasion a rarer opportunity. The mention to his companion of the...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When Miss Gostrey arrived, at the end of a week, she made him a sign; he went immediately to see her, and it wasn’t till then that he could again close his grasp on the idea of a corrective. This idea however was luckily...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I’ve come, you know, to make you break with everything, neither more nor less, and take you straight home; so you’ll be so good as immediately and favourably to consider it!’—Strether, face to face with Chad after the play, had sounded these words...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The sunday of the next week was a wonderful day, and Chad Newsome had let his friend know in advance that he had provided for it. There had already been a question of his taking him to see the great Gloriani*, who...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was quite by half-past five—after the two men had been together in Madame de Vionnet’s drawing-room not more than a dozen minutes—that Chad, with a look at his watch and then another at their hostess, said genially, gaily, ‘I’ve an engagement, and I...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Madame de vionnet, having meanwhile come in, was at present close to them, and Miss Barrace hereupon, instead of risking a rejoinder, became again with a look that measured her from top to toe all mere long-handled appreciative tortoise-shell. She had struck our friend,...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Almost the first thing, strangely enough, that, about an hour later, Strether found himself doing in Sarah’s presence was to remark articulately on this failure, in their friend, of what had been superficially his great distinction. It was as if—he alluded of course to...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He was to delay no longer to re-establish communication with Chad, and we have just seen that he had spoken to Miss Gostrey of this intention on hearing from her of the young man’s absence. It was not moreover only the assurance so given...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It
Had been said as a joke, but as, after this, they awaited their friend in silence, the effect of the silence was to turn the time to gravity—a gravity not dissipated even when the Prince next spoke. He had been thinking the case...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Well, now I must tell you, for I want to be absolutely honest.’ So Charlotte spoke, a little ominously, after they had got into the Park. ‘I don’t want to pretend, and I can’t pretend a moment longer. You may think...
XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Assingham and the Colonel, quitting Fawns before the end of September, had come back later on; and now, a couple of weeks after, they were again interrupting their stay, but this time with the question of their return left to depend on matters...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It
Maybe recorded none the less that the Prince was the next moment to see how little any such assumption was founded. Alone with him now Mrs Assingham was incor-ruptible. ‘They send for Charlotte through you?’

‘No, my dear; as you see, through...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

FannyOn her arrival in town, carried out her second idea, despatching the Colonel to his club for luncheon and pack-ing her maid into a cab, for Cadogan Place, with the variety of their effects. The result of this for each of the pair was...
XXXVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Maggie
Was to feel, after this passage, how they had both been helped through it by the influence of that accident of her having been caught, a few nights before, in the familiar embrace of her father’s wife. His return to the saloon had...
XXXIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
Resemblancehad not been present to her on first coming out into the hot, still brightness of the Sunday after-noon—only the second Sunday, of all the summer, when the party of six, the party of seven including the Principino, had practically been without accessions...
XL
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I’ll
do anything you like,’ she said to her husband on one of the last days of the month, ‘if our being here, this way at this time, seems to you too absurd, or too uncom-fortable, or too impossible. We’ll either take leave...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She was therefore all the more startled when her mother said to her in connexion with something to be done before her next migration: ‘You understand of course that she’s not going with you.’

Maisie turned quite faint. ‘Oh I thought she was.’

‘It doesn’t...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It quite fell in with this intensity that one day, on returning from a walk with the housemaid, Maisie should have found her in the hall, seated on the stool usually occupied by the telegraph-boys who haunted Beale Farange’s door and kicked their heels...
XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The money was far too much even for a fee in a fairy-tale, and in the absence of Mrs Beale, who, though the hour was now late, had not yet returned to the Regent’s Park, Susan Ash, in the hall, as loud as Maisie...
XXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Every single thing he had prophesied came so true that it was after all no more than fair to expect quite as much for what he had as good as promised. His pledges they could verify to the letter, down to his very guarantee...
XXXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She remained out with him for a time of which she could take no measure save that it was too short for what she wished to make of it—an interval, a barrier indefinite, insurmountable. They walked about, they dawdled, they looked in shop-windows; they...
How the Camel got his Hump
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

OW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.

In the beginning of years, when the world was so new-and-all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in...
How the Leopard got his Spots
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

N the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt.* ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ’sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where...
How the First Letter was Written
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

NCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in a...
How the Alphabet was Made
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

HE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy. Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home...
The Rescue of Pluffles
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Two and One.

Mrs. Hauksbee was sometimes nice to her own sex....
The Three Musketeers
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

An’ when the war began,* we chased the bold Afghan, An’ we made the bloomin’ Ghazi* for to flee, boys O! An’ we marched into Kabul, an’ we tuk the Balar ’Issar, An’ we taught ’em to respec’ the...

Barrack-Room Ballad....
His Wedded Wife
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Cry ‘Murder!’ in the market-place, and each

Will turn upon his neighbour anxious eyes

That ask— ‘Art thou the man?’ We hunted Cain,

Some centuries ago, across the world.

That bred the fear our own misdeeds maintain

To-day.

Vibart’s Moralities.

Shakespeare says something about...
A Friend’s Friend
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Wherefore slew I the stranger? He brought me dishonour.

I saddled my mare Bijli. I set him upon her.

I gave him rice and goat’s flesh. He bared me to laughter;

When he was gone from my tent, swift I followed after,

Taking a sword...
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

If I can attain Heaven for a pice,* why should you be envious?

Opium Smoker’s Proverb.

This is no work of mine. My friend, Gabral Misquitta, the half-caste, spoke it all, between moonset and morning, six weeks before he died; and I...
On the Strength of a Likeness
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.

Hindu Proverb.

Next to a requited attachment, one of the most convenient things that a young man can carry about with him at the beginning...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the following day, a Sunday, every church clock in Le Havre had just struck five when Roubaud came down into the station concourse to begin his day’s work. It was still pitch dark, but the wind, blowing in from the sea, had freshened...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On that particular Friday morning, the passengers who were to take the 6.40 express from Le Havre exclaimed in surprise upon waking: snow had been falling since midnight, and in such thick, steady flakes that it lay thirty centimetres deep in the streets.

Already, in...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In Le Havre, during the days which followed, Jacques and Séverine exercised the greatest care, for they had become nervous. Since Roubaud knew everything, would he not be out to spy on them, to catch them and take dramatic revenge? They recalled his jealous...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Three months later, on a warm June evening, Jacques was driving the Le Havre express, having left Paris at half-past six. He was beginning to get the measure of his new locomotive, No. 608, which had recently entered service (he had taken her virginity,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The following Saturday Coupeau, who hadn’t come in for dinner, brought Lantier home with him about ten o’clock. They’d had a dish of sheep’s trotters together at Thomas’s in Montmartre.

‘You mustn’t scold us, old lady,’ said the roofer: ‘We’re behavin’ ourselves, as you see...
IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day Octave began to focus his attention on Valérie. He studied her habits, and worked out the times when he was likely to meet her on the stairs, managing to go up frequently to his room, either when lunching at the Campardons’...
VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, which was a Sunday, Octave lay for an extra hour in the warm sheets of his bed. He had awoken in the mood of lazy good-humour that accompanies the mental clearness that morning brings. Why should he be in any hurry?...
VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The civil marriage had taken place on the Thursday. On the Saturday morning, as early as a quarter-past ten, some of the lady guests were already waiting in the Josserands’ drawing-room, the religious ceremony having been fixed for half-past eleven at Saint-Roch. Madame Juzeur...
IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Two days later, at about seven o’clock, as Octave arrived at the Campardons’ for dinner, he found Rose by herself, dressed in a cream-coloured silk dressing-gown trimmed with white lace.

‘Are you expecting someone?’ he asked.

‘Oh, no!’ she replied, somewhat embarrassed. ‘We’ll have dinner...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I now come to the mention of a person with whose name the most turbulent sensations are connected. It is with a shuddering reluctance that I enter on the province of describing him. Now it is that I begin to perceive the difficulty of...
Chapter VII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I will not enumerate the various inquiries and conjectures which these incidents occasioned. After all our efforts, we came no nearer to dispelling the mist in which they were involved; and time, instead of facilitating a solution, only accumulated our doubts.

In the midst of...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

As soon as evening arrived, I performed my visit. Carwin made one of the company, into which I was ushered. Appearances were the same as when I before beheld him. His garb was equally negligent and rustic. I gazed upon his countenance with new...
Chapter XII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

My way lay through the city. I had scarcely entered it when I was seized with a general sensation of sickness. Every object grew dim and swam before my sight. It was with difficulty I prevented myself from sinking to the bottom of the...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Three days have elapsed since this occurrence. I have been haunted by perpetual inquietude. To bring myself to regard Carwin without terror, and to acquiesce in the belief of your safety, was impossible. Yet to put an end to my doubt, seemed to...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I had imperfectly recovered my strength, when I was informed of the arrival of my mother’s brother, Thomas Cambridge. Ten years since, he went to Europe, and was a surgeon in the British forces in Germany, during the whole of the late war. After...
Chapter IXI
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Theodore Wieland, the prisoner at the bar, was now called upon for his defence. He looked around him for some time in silence, and with a mild countenance. At length he spoke:

‘It is strange; I am known to my judges and my auditors....
Chapter XXI
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Such, for some time, was the course of my meditations. My weakness, and my aversion to be pointed at as an object of surprise or compassion, prevented me from going into public. I studiously avoided the visits of those who came to express their...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

The inhabitants of the hut received me with a mixture of joy and surprise. Their homely welcome, and their artless sympathy, were grateful to my feelings. In the midst of their inquiries, as to my health, they avoided all allusions to the...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

My right hand, grasping the unseen knife, was still disengaged. It was lifted to strike. All my strength was exhausted, but what was sufficient to the performance of this deed. Already was the energy awakened, and the impulse given, that should bear the fatal...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

[Written three years after the foregoing, and dated at Montpellier.*]

I imagined that I had forever laid aside the pen; and that I should take up my abode in this part of the world, was of all events the least probable. My destiny...
Chapter VI
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘I was the Flail of the Lord’

Lord
John
Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.* At the end of a long drab passage my new acquaintance pushed open a door...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘A Procession I A Procession!’

I should wish to place upon record here our gratitude to all our friends upon the Amazon for the very great kindness and hospitality which was shown to us upon our return journey. Very particularly would I thank Signor...
Chapter 11 the perils of the soul
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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What is the primitive conception of death?

The foregoing examples have taught us that the office of a sacred king or priest is often hedged in by a series of burden some restrictions or taboos, of which a principal purpose appears to be...
Chapter 12 taboos
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Primitive conceptions of the soul helped to mould early kingships.

So much for the primitive conceptions of the soul and the dangers to which it is exposed. These conceptions are not limited to one people or country; with variations of detail they are...
Chapter 5 the killing of the tree-spirit
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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The single combat of the king of the Wood was probably a mitigation of an older custom of putting him to death at the end of a fixed term.

It remains to ask what light the custom of killing the divine king or...
Chapter 7 sacred prostitution
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Sacred prostitution of Western Asia.

In the preceding chapter we saw that a system of sacred prostitution was regularly carried on all over Western Asia, and that both in Phoenicia and in Cyprus the practice was specially associated with the worship of Adonis....
Chapter 8 the ritual of adonis
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Festivals of the death and resurrection of Adonis.

The festival at Alexandria.

The festival at Byblus.

At the festivals of Adonis, which were held in Western Asia and in Greek lands, the death of the god was annually mourned, with a bitter wailing,...
Chapter 11 osiris
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Osiris the Egyptian counter part of Adonis and Attis.

In ancient Egypt the god whose death and resurrection were annually celebrated with alternate sorrow and joy was Osiris, the most popular of all Egyptian deities; and there are good grounds for classing him in...
Chapter 5 death and resurrection
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Sex totems and clan to-tems may both be based on the notion that men and women keep their external souls in their totems, whether these are animals, plants, or what not.

The savage may imagine his life to be bound up with that of...
Chapter 6 the golden bough
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Balder’s life or death in the mistletoe.

Thus the view that Balder’s life was in the mistletoe is entirely in harmony with primitive modes of thought. It may indeed sound like a contradiction that, if his life was in the mistletoe, he should...
Circumstances Alter Cases
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

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‘Are you going to let a wretched prejudice like this stand against my love?’ he asked; ‘an empty impersonal sex-prejudice against a man’s lifelong devotion? You say you love me, and yet you won’t marry me because I don’t agree with you...
The Giant Wistaria
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘Meddle not with my new vine, child! See! Thou hast already broken the tender shoot! Never needle or distaff for thee, and yet thou wilt not be quiet!’

The nervous fingers wavered, clutched at a small carnelian cross that hung from her neck, then...
One Way Out
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

She sat quite silent for a little after his last remark, with that silence which suggests the retention of many things most pertinent to the matter in hand, but not always of an agreeable nature.

Her cousin—she had quite returned to the old habit of...
Three Thanksgivings
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Andrew’s letter and Jean’s letter were in Mrs Morrison’s lap. She had read them both, and sat looking at them with a varying sort of smile, now motherly and now unmotherly.

‘You belong with me,’ Andrew wrote. ‘It is not right that Jean’s husband should...
The Jumping-Off Place
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Two new guests were expected at The Jumping-off Place that night. The establishment was really too full already of Professors, Professorins and—shall we take a lingual liberty and say Professorinii?

The extra ones however had special claims in the mind of Miss Shortridge; claims well...
Making a Change
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘Wa-a-a-a! Waa-a-a-aaa!’

Frank Gordins set down his coffee cup so hard that it spilled over into the saucer.

‘Is there no way to stop that child crying?’ he demanded.

‘I do not know of any,’ said his wife, so...
A Council of War
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

There was an informal meeting of women in a London drawing room, a meeting not over large, between twenty and thirty, perhaps, but of a deadly earnestness. Picked women were these, true and tried, many wearing the broad arrow pin, that badge of shame...
If I Were a Man
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

That was what pretty little Mollie Mathewson always said when Gerald would not do what she wanted him to—which was seldom.

That was what she said this bright morning, with a stamp of her little high-heeled slipper, just because he had made a fuss about...
Dr Clair’s Place
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘you must count your mercies,’ said her friendly adviser. ‘There’s no cloud so dark but it has a silver lining, you know,—count your mercies.’

She looked at her with dull eyes that had known no hope for many years. ‘Perhaps you will count them...
Lot No. 249
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monkhouse Lee, and of the cause of the great terror of Abercrombie Smith, it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered. It is true that we have the full and clear...