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Chapter V: Showing that Tom Had Opened the Oyster
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘And now we’ve settled this Newcastle business, Tom,’ said Mr Deane, that same afternoon, as they were seated in the private room at the Bank together, ‘there’s another matter I want to talk to you about. Since you’re likely to have rather a...
Chapter VII: Philip Re-Enters
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next morning was very wet: the sort of morning on which male neighbours who have no imperative occupation at home are likely to pay their fair friends an illimitable visit. The rain, which has been endurable enough for the walk or ride one...
Chapter IV: Maggie and Lucy
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

By The end of the week Dr Kenn had made up his mind that there was only one way in which he could secure to Maggie a suitable living at St Ogg’s. Even with his twenty years’ experience as a parish priest, he was...
Chapter V: The Last Conflict
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In The second week of September, Maggie was again sitting in her lonely room, battling with the old shadowy enemies that were for ever slain and rising again. It was past midnight, and the rain was beating heavily against the window, driven with fitful...
Chapter II
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Raskolnikov wasn’t used to crowds, and as we said, he had lately been avoiding company of any kind. Yet now something drove him to seek human fellowship. Something new seemed to be happening within him, giving him a kind of thirst for other people....
Chapter VI
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Later on, Raskolnikov happened to find out why the stallholder and his wife had invited Lizaveta to visit them. The reason was a perfectly ordinary one with nothing very special about it. A family who had come to live in Petersburg and fallen on...
Chapter I
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

He lay like that for a very long while. From time to time he seemed to wake up, and then he would realize that it was far into the night; but it never occurred to him to get up. At last he realized that...
Chapter VI
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But as soon as she was gone, he got up, put the hook on the door, undid the bundle of clothes that Razumikhin had brought with him and then bundled up again, and began to dress. Strangely enough, he had suddenly become perfectly calm—there...
Chapter I
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Raskolnikov raised himself and sat up on the divan.

He gestured feebly at Razumikhin to stem his flood of earnest but incoherent reassurances to his mother and sister, then took both women by the hand and gazed silently first at one and then the other....
Chapter II
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Razumikhin woke before eight the following morning, serious and troubled. He suddenly found himself that morning confronted by a great many new and unexpected puzzles. Never before had he imagined waking up like this. He remembered everything that had occurred the previous day, down...
Chapter VI
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Later on, when he thought back to that moment, Raskolnikov recalled it like this:

The noise outside the door suddenly got much louder, and the door opened a fraction.

‘What’s going on?’ cried Porfiry Petrovich in annoyance. ‘I warned you…’

For a moment there was...
Chapter II
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It would be hard to say exactly what had caused Katerina Ivanovna’s disordered mind to settle on the notion of this pointless funeral wake. Almost ten roubles had been squandered on it out of the twenty-odd she had received from Raskolnikov for Marmeladov’s actual...
Chapter I
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

A strange time began for Raskolnikov: it was as if a sudden mist had descended before him, enclosing him in miserable solitude from which there was no escape. When, long afterwards, he thought back to this period, he could see that his mind was...
Chapter VII
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

On that same day, but towards seven in the evening, Raskolnikov was walking towards the apartment where his mother and sister were staying—that same apartment in Bakaleyev’s house where Razumikhin had settled them in. The entrance to their staircase was directly on the street....
V. The Trials of Girlhood
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

During the first years of my service in Dr. Flint’s family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. Though this seemed to me no more than right, I was grateful for it, and tried to merit the kindness...
VI. The Jealous Mistress
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America.* I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave...
VIII. What Slaves are taught to think of the North
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Slaveholders pride themselves upon being honorable men; but if you were to hear the enormous lies they tell their slaves, you would have small respect for their veracity. I have spoken plain English. Pardon me. I cannot use a milder term. When they visit...
IX. Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

There was a planter in the country, not far from us, whom I will call Mr. Litch. He was an ill-bred, uneducated man, but very wealthy. He had six hundred slaves, many of whom he did not know by sight. His extensive plantation was...
XII. Fear of Insurrection
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Not far from this time Nat Turner’s insurrection* broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion. Strange that they should be alarmed, when their slaves were so “contented and happy”! But so it was.

It was always the custom to have...
XV. Continued Persecutions
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

My children grew finely; and Dr. Flint would often say to me, with an exulting smile, “These brats will bring me a handsome sum of money one of these days.”

I thought to myself that, God being my helper, they should never pass into his...
XVII. The Flight
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Flint was hard pushed for house servants, and rather than lose me he had restrained his malice. I did my work faithfully, though not, of course, with a willing mind. They were evidently afraid I should leave them. Mr. Flint wished that I...
XIX. The Children Sold
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

The doctor came back from New York, of course without accomplishing his purpose. He had expended considerable money, and was rather disheartened. My brother and the children had now been in jail two months, and that also was some expense. My friends thought it...
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

A Small shed had been added to my grandmother’s house years ago. Some boards were laid across the joists at the top, and between these boards and the roof was a very small garret, never occupied by any thing but rats and mice....
XXVI. Important Era in my Brother’s Life
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Missed the company and kind attentions of my brother William, who had gone to Washington with his master, Mr. Sands. We received several letters from him, written without any allusion to me, but expressed in such a manner that I knew he...
XXIX. Preparations for Escape
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

I Hardly expect that the reader will credit me, when I affirm that I lived in that little dismal hole, almost deprived of light and air, and with no space to move my limbs, for nearly seven years.* But it is...
XXXVI. The Hair-breadth Escape
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

After we returned to New York, I took the earliest opportunity to go and see Ellen. I asked to have her called down stairs; for I supposed Mrs. Hobbs’s southern brother might still be there, and I was desirous to avoid seeing him, if...
Chapter VI The Adieus of Waverley
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was upon the evening of this memorable Sunday that Sir Everard entered the library, where he narrowly missed surprising our young hero as he went through the guards of the broad-sword* with the ancient brand of old Sir Hildebrand, which, being...
Chapter XV A Creagh,24 and its Consequences
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When Edward had been a guest at Tully-Veolan nearly six weeks, he descried, one morning as he took his usual walk before the breakfast hour, signs of unusual perturbation in the family. Four bare-legged dairy-maids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand, ran...
Chapter XIX The Chief and his Mansion
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The ingenious licentiate Francisco de Ubeda, when he commenced his history of La Picara Justina Diez,*—which, by the way, is one of the most rare books of Spanish literature,—complained of his pen having caught up a hair, and forthwith begins, with more...
Chapter XXIII Waverley continues at Glennaquoich
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

As Flora concluded her song, Fergus stood before them. “I knew I should find you here, even without the assistance of my friend Bran. A simple and unsublimed taste now, like my own, would prefer the jet d’eau at Versailles to this cascade, with...
Chapter XIV Waverley is still in Duresse
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The velocity, and indeed violence, with which Waverley was hurried along, nearly deprived him of sensation; for the injury he had received from his fall prevented him from aiding himself so effectually as he might otherwise have done. When this was observed by his...
Chapter XVI The Journey is continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Before Waverley awakened from his repose, the day was far advanced, and he began to feel that he had past many hours without food. This was soon supplied in form of a copious breakfast, but Colonel Stuart, as if wishing to avoid the queries...
Chapter II The English Prisoner
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The first occupation of Waverley, after he departed from the Chieftain, was in quest of the officer whose life he had saved. He was guarded along with his companions in misfortune, who were very numerous, in a gentleman’s house near the field of battle....

Upon...
Chapter V Intrigues of Society and Love
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Colonel
Talbot became more kindly in his demeanour towards Waverley after the confidence he had reposed in him, and as they were necessarily much together, the character of the Colonel rose in Waverley’s estimation. There seemed at first something harsh in his strong expressions...
Chapter VI Fergus, a Suitor
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Waverley had, indeed, as he looked closer upon the state of the Chevalier’s court, less reason to be satisfied with it. It contained, as they say an acorn includes all the ramifications of the future oak, as many seeds of tracassarie and...
Chapter IX Exertion
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When Colonel Talbot entered the breakfast-parlour next morning, he learned from Waverley’s servant that our hero had been abroad at an early hour, and was not yet returned. The morning was well advanced before he again appeared. He arrived out of breath; but with...
Chapter XV What’s to be done next?
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was twilight when they arrived in town, and having shaken off his companions, and walked through a good many streets to avoid the possibility of being traced by them, Edward took a hackney-coach and drove to Colonel Talbot’s house, in one of the...
Chapter IX: Twala the King
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

It will not be necessary for me to detail at length the incidents of our journey to Loo. It took two good days’ travelling along Solomon’s Great Road, which pursued its even course right into the heart of Kukuanaland. Suffice it to say that...
Chapter XII: Before the Battle
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

Luckily for us, Infadoos and the chiefs knew all the pathways of the great town perfectly, so that notwithstanding the intense gloom we made fair progress.

For an hour or more we journeyed on, till at length the eclipse began to pass, and that edge...
On the City Wall
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world. Lilith was her very-great-grand-mamma, and...
The Bridge-Builders
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.:°indeed his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost...
Mrs Bathurst
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

From Lyden’s ‘Irenius’°

Act III. Sc. II.

—Had it been your Prince instead of a groom caught in this noose there’s not an astrologer of the city—

—Sacked! Sacked! We were a city yesterday.

—So be it, but I was...
Sea Constables
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Changelings
From A Song of the English
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Song of the Dead
Chapter I
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace,* had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning,* sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible, nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are...
Chapter XII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

While Godfrey Cass was taking draughts of forgetfulness from the sweet presence of Nancy, willingly losing all sense of that hidden bond which at other moments galled and fretted him so as to mingle irritation with the very sunshine, Godfrey’s wife was walking with...
Chapter XV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

There was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest than any other, the prosperous growth of Eppie under the weaver’s care. He dared not do anything that would imply a stronger interest in a poor man’s adopted...
Chapter VI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently), and must beg the good-natured reader to remember, that we are only discoursing at present about a stockbroker’s family in Russell Square, who...
Chapter XII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

e must now take leave of Arcadia, and those amiable people practising the rural virtues there, and travel back to London, to inquire what has become of Miss Amelia.

‘ We don’t care a fig for her,’ writes some unknown correspondent with a pretty little...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

f here is any exhibition in all Vanity Fair which Satire and Sentiment can visit arm-in-arm together ; where you light on the strangest contrasts laughable and tearful : where you may be gentle and pathetic, or savage and cynical with perfect propriety...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

e of peaceful London City have never beheld—and please God never shall witness—such a scene of hurry and alarm, as that which Brussels presented. Crowds rushed to the Namur gate, from which direction the noise proceeded, and many rode along the level ...
Chapter LIX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The major’s visit left old John Sedley in a great state of agita-tion and excitement. His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. He passed the evening fumbling amongst his boxes and desks, untying...
Chapter LXIV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

*

We must pass over a part of Mrs. Rebecca Crawley’s biography with that lightness and delicacy which the world demands—the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. There...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Next day Hélène thought it would be polite to go and thank Doctor Deberle. The hasty manner in which she had forced him to come with her, the good turn he had done her in spending that whole night at Jeanne’s bedside, embarrassed her...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Both windows in the room were open wide and below the house, which was built high up on the hillside, there in a deep chasm lay the immense plain that stretched to Paris. Ten o’clock chimed, the beautiful February morning had the softness and...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

After the soup that Tuesday Hélène looked up and remarked:

‘It’s pouring down, can you hear? My dear friends, you’ll be soaked this evening.’

‘Oh, it’s just a drop or two,’ said the abbé quietly. His old soutane was already damp on the shoulders.

‘I’ve...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Back up there in the gentle, cloistered atmosphere of her room, Hélène felt as if she couldn’t breathe. She was astonished to find it so calm, so shut away, so soporific beneath its blue velvet furnishings, when she was bringing to it the breathless...
Chapter XXVII The Lonely Man
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

A touch of congestion in the right lung was a warning to Reardon that his half-year of insufficient food and general waste of strength would make the coming winter a hard time for him, worse probably than the last. Biffen, responding in person...
Chapter XXXII Reardon Becomes Practical
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Reardon had never been to Brighton, and of his own accord never would have gone; he was prejudiced against the place because its name has become suggestive of fashionable imbecility and the snobbishness which tries to model itself thereon; he knew that the town...
Chapter XXXVI Jasper’s Delicate Case
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Only when he received Miss Rupert’s amiably-worded refusal to become his wife was Jasper aware how firmly he had counted on her accepting him. He told Dora with sincerity that his proposal was a piece of foolishness; so far from having any regard for...
The Los Amigos Fiasco
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I
used to be the leading practitioner of Los Amigos. Of course, every one has heard of the great electrical generating gear there. The town is widespread, and there are dozens of little townlets and villages all around, which receive their supply from the...
The Terror of Blue John Gap
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

T
he following narrative was found among the papers of Dr James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis* on February 4, 1908, at 36, Upper Coventry Flats, South Kensington. Those who knew him best, while refusing to express an opinion upon this particular...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day the fine weather had gone, and it was raining. Serge, whose fever had returned, spent a day of suffering, with his eyes fixed despairingly on the curtains, from which came only a sinister light, cavern-like and grey as ash. He could...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning she was at last able to support him to the bottom of the steps, trampling down the grass in front of him, and making a path through the wild rose bushes that barred the bottom steps with their supple arms....
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Are we not going out any more?’ asked Serge, a few days later. And on seeing her wearily shrugging her shoulders, he added, just to tease her:

‘So you’ve given up trying to find your tree?’

They joked about this for the rest of the...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Brother, who had already eaten, stayed on while the priest had dinner, sitting astride a chair he had turned round. Ever since the priest had come back to Les Artaud, he had been installing himself like this in the presbytery almost every evening....
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day was a Sunday. As the Exaltation of the Holy Cross* fell on a day of High Mass, Abbé Mouret had decided to celebrate this religious feast with special grandeur. He had developed an extraordinary devotion to the Cross; in...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Brother
Archangias, awake now, and standing over the gap in the wall, was hitting the stones with his stick, and swearing dreadfully.

‘May the devil break their thighs! May he nail them rump to rump like dogs! May he drag them by their feet,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At that same time, Albine was still wandering about in the Paradou, with the dumb agony of a wounded animal. She was no longer weeping. Her face was white, with one deep furrow on her brow. Why was she suffering such a death? What...
Frederic & Elfrida
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Chapter the First

The Uncle of Elfrida was the Father of Frederic; in other words, they were first cousins by the Father’s side.*

Being both born in one day & both brought up at one school,* it was not wonderfull that they...
The Visit
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Dedication

To the Revd James Austen*

Sir,

The following Drama, which I humbly recommend to your Protection & Patronage, tho’ inferior to those celebrated Comedies called ‘The school for Jealousy’ & ‘The travelled Man’,* will I hope afford some amusement to so...
[Detached peices]
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

To Miss Jane Anna Elizabeth Austen*

My Dear Neice

Though you are at this period not many degrees removed from Infancy, Yet trusting that you will in time be older,* and that through the care of your excellent Parent* You...
[Continuation of Evelyn, by James Edward Austen]
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

On his return home, he rang the housebell, but no one appeared, a second time he rang, but the door was not opened, a third & a fourth with as little success,* when observing the dining parlour window open he leapt in,*...
[Continuation of Evelyn, by Anna Lefroy]
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

On re entering his circular domain, his round-Robin of perpetual peace;* where enjoyment had no End, and calamity no commencement,* his spirits became wonderfully composed, and a delicious calm extended itself through every nerve—With his pocket hankerchief (once hemmed by the...
Rumpel-Stilts-kin
Authors: Grimm Wilhelm , Grimm Jakob
Published: December 2020

In a certain kingdom once lived a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter. She was moreover exceedingly shrewd and clever; and the miller was so vain and proud of her, that he one day told the king of the land that his...
The Story of the Herons
Authors: Housman Laurence
Published: December 2020

Along time ago there lived a King and a Queen who loved each other dearly. They had both fallen in love at first sight; and as their love began so it went on through all their life. Yet this, which was the cause of...
Melisande: or, Long and Short Division
Authors: Nesbit E.
Published: December 2020

When the Princess Melisande was born, her mother, the Queen, wished to have a christening party, but the King put his foot down and said he would not have it.

‘I’ve seen too much trouble come of christening parties,’ said he. ‘However carefully you keep...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Beaumont* is made up of two completely separate and distinct towns. Perched on a hill, Beaumont-l’Église has an ancient cathedral begun in the twelfth century, and a bishop’s palace, dating from just the seventeenth. Its population numbers barely one thousand souls, who live...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That evening, in the kitchen, after she got up from the table, Angélique confessed everything to the Huberts, telling them how she had approached the bishop and how he had refused her. She was deathly pale, but very calm.

Hubert was greatly distressed. What, his...
2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next morning, Clotilde woke early, at six o’clock. She had gone to bed feeling angry with Pascal, they had been cool towards each other. And her first feeling was one of uneasiness, vague remorse, and an immediate need to make up, so as...
3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Over the next month the uneasiness only grew worse and Clotilde was especially pained to see that Pascal now locked his drawers. He no longer had the quiet confidence in her of days gone by, and she was hurt by this, so much so...
9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

All through the town and all through the surrounding countryside, Doctor Pascal continued his doctor’s house calls. And almost always Clotilde was on his arm, going with him into the homes of the poor.

But as he’d admitted to her in a whisper, one night,...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The President of the Chamber remained standing until the faint stir caused by his entry subsided. Then he took his seat, saying rather nonchalantly, in a quiet voice:

‘The sitting is open.’

He proceeded to sort out the legislative proposals laid out on the desk...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning, at about eleven, Clorinde called to see Rougon at his house in the Rue Marbeuf. She was on her way back from the Bois; at the door, a servant took charge of her horse. She made her way round the house, to...
Chapter 9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One March morning, at the Ministry of the Interior, Rougon was at his desk busily drafting a confidential circular all prefects were to receive the following day. Halting intermittently, and breathing heavily, he ground his nib into the paper.

‘Jules!’ he cried, ‘give me another...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next morning, as they sat down at breakfast to their bowls of milky coffee, they were surprised not to see Louise come down. The maid was about to go upstairs and knock on her bedroom door, when she finally appeared. She looked very...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

After dreadful weather throughout May, the first days of June were very warm. Westerly gales had been blowing for the past three weeks and storms had devastated the coast, eroding the cliffs, swallowing up boats, and claiming lives; but now the broad blue sky,...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Two days later, a particularly low tide uncovered deep-lying rocks. In the surge of enthusiasm that always took hold of Lazare at the start of each new undertaking, he refused to wait any longer, but set off with bare legs and just a linen...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That Saturday, when Louise, who was coming to spend two months with the Chanteaus, stepped down onto their terrace, she found the whole family gathered there. The very hot August day, refreshed by a sea breeze, was drawing to a close. Abbé Horteur had...
Chapter II
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

There was music as they re-entered the drawing-room. Sir Vavasour attached himself to Egremont.

‘It is a great pleasure for me to see you again, Mr. Egremont;’ said the worthy baronet. ‘Your father was my earliest and kindest friend. I remember you at Firebrace, a...
Chapter V
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘You lean against an ancient trunk,’ said Egremont, carelessly advancing to the stranger, who looked up at him without any expression of surprise, and then replied. ‘They say ’tis the trunk beneath whose branches the monks encamped when they came to this valley...
Chapter XI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Your lordship’s dinner is served,’ announced the groom of the chambers to Lord de Mowbray; and the noble lord led out Lady Marney. The rest followed. Egremont found himself seated next to Lady Maud Fitz-Warene, the younger daughter of the earl. Nearly opposite...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Your wife is ill?’ said Sybil.

‘Very!’ replied Warner’s wife. ‘Our daughter has behaved infamously to us. She has quitted us without saying by your leave or with your leave. And her wages were almost the only thing left to us; for Philip is...
Chapter X
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Time passes with a measured and memorable wing during the first period of a sojourn in a new place, among new characters and new manners. Every person, every incident, every feeling, touches and stirs the imagination. The restless mind creates and observes...
Chapter XI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

It was the night following the day after the return of Gerard to Mowbray. Morley, who had lent to him and Sybil his cottage in the dale, was at the office of his newspaper, the Mowbray Phalanx, where he now...
Chapter V
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

The beam of the declining sun, softened by the stained panes of a small gothic window, suffused the chamber of the Lady Superior of the convent of Mowbray. The vaulted room, of very moderate dimensions, was furnished with great simplicity and opened into a...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘What a pity it is, Elinor,’ said Marianne, ‘that Edward should have no taste for drawing.’

‘No taste for drawing,’ replied Elinor; ‘why should you think so? He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very differently from what Elinor had expected. She was prepared to be wet through, fatigued, and frightened; but the event was still more unfortunate, for they did not go at all.

By ten o’clock the whole party...
Chapter XX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

As the Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the park the next day, at one door, Mrs. Palmer came running in at the other, looking as good humoured and merry as before. She took them all most affectionately by the hand, and expressed great...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘If this open weather holds much longer,’ said Mrs. Jennings, when they met at breakfast the following morning, ‘Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week; ’tis a sad thing for sportsmen to lose a day’s pleasure. Poor souls! I always pity...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Marianne got up the next morning at her usual time; to every inquiry replied that she was better, and tried to prove herself so, by engaging in her accustomary employments. But a day spent in sitting shivering over the fire with a book in...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Marianne’s illness, though weakening in its kind, had not been long enough to make her recovery slow; and with youth, natural strength, and her mother’s presence in aid, it proceeded so smoothly as to enable her to remove, within four days after the arrival...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Unaccountable, however, as the circumstances of his release might appear to the whole family, it was certain that Edward was free: and to what purpose that freedom would be employed was easily pre-determined by all;—for after experiencing the blessings of one imprudent...
Chapter Seven
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In Remilly, a terrifying jumble of men, horses, and carts stood blocking the road which wound down to the Meuse. Halfway down, outside the church, some of the cannon wheels had become entangled, and no amount of cursing and bumping could get them to budge....
Chapter Three
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That morning, Jean and Maurice had heard the joyful calls of the bugles for the last time; and now they were on the march, heading for Germany among the herd of prisoners, preceded and brought up at the rear by platoons of Prussian soldiers, while...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When, after countless delays, the train from Sedan finally arrived at the station at Saint-Denis* at about nine o’clock, a great red glow was already illuminating the southern sky, as if the whole of Paris was on fire. As night drew in, this...
Christmas at Groby Park
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Christmas-day was always a time of very great trial to Mrs Mason of Groby Park. It behoved her, as the wife of an old English country gentleman, to spread her board plenteously at that season, and in some sort to make an open house...
Why Should I Not?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A day or two after his conversation with Crabwitz, as described in the last chapter, Mr Furnival was driven up to the door of Sir Peregrine Orme’s house in a Hamworth fly. He had come over by train from Alston on...
Love Was Still the Lord of All
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Why should I not? Such had been the question which Sir Peregrine Orme had asked himself over and over again, in these latter days, since Lady Mason had been staying at his house; and the purport of the question was this: — Why should he not...
Why Should He Go?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I am well aware, Mr Staveley, that you are one of those gentlemen who amuse themselves by frequently saying such things to girls. I had learned your character in that respect before I had been in the house two days.’

‘Then, Miss Furnival, you learned...
Mrs Furnival Can’t Put Up With It
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Lady Mason last left the chambers of her lawyer in Lincoln’s Inn, she was watched by a stout lady as she passed through the narrow passage leading from the Old to the New Square. That fact will I trust be remembered,* and...
It Is Quite Impossible
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

All was now sadness at The Cleeve. It was soon understood among the servants that there was to be no marriage, and the tidings spread from the house, out among the neighbours and into Hamworth. But no one knew the reason of this change; — none...
Lady Mason Returns Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Mason remained at The Cleeve for something more than a week after that day on which she made her confession, during which time she was fully committed to take her trial at the next assizes at Alston on an indictment for perjury. This...
Miss Staveley Declines to Eat Minced Veal
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The house at Noningsby was now very quiet. All the visitors had gone, including even the Arbuthnots. Felix Graham and Sophia Furnival, that terrible pair of guests, had relieved Mrs Staveley of their presence; but, alas! the mischief they had done remained behind them....
No Surrender
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Sir Peregrine Orme had gone up to London, had had his interview with Mr Round, and had failed. He had then returned home, and hardly a word on the subject had been spoken between him and Mrs Orme. Indeed little or nothing was now...
Felix Graham Returns to Noningsby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘If you love the man, let him come.’ It was thus that the judge had declared to his daughter his opinion of what had better be done in that matter of Felix Graham. Then he had gone on to declare that he had...
The Two Judges
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Felix Graham as he left the Alston court-house on the close of the first day of the trial was not in a happy state of mind. He did not actually accuse himself of having omitted any duty which he owed to his client; but...
Mrs Orme Tells the Story
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was late when that second day’s work was over, and when Mrs Orme and Lady Mason again found themselves in the Hamworth carriage. They had sat in court from ten in the morning till past seven, with a short interval of a few...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing: the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and...
Chapter X
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to the first ten years of my life, I have given almost as many chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography: I am only bound to invoke memory where...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.

While arranging...
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcross;* he could take me no farther for the sum I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My home, then—when I at last find a home,—is a cottage: a little room with white-washed walls, and a sanded floor; containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things...
Chapter XI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I had heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes went there. His father had purchased the estate for...
Chapter XII Conclusion
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner, and John cleaning the knives,...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That Sunday, on one of the first warm days of June, under a stormy sky in the Bois de Boulogne the Paris Grand Prix was being run. In the morning the sun had risen out of a reddish haze. But towards eleven, just when...
Chapter VII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasioned to the progress of his great work—the Key to...
Chapter XI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Lydgate, in fact, was already conscious of...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The triumphant confidence of the Mayor founded on Mr Featherstone’s insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all that was agitating the...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The transactions referred to by Caleb Garth as having gone forward between Mr Bulstrode and Mr Joshua Rigg Featherstone concerning the land attached to Stone Court, had occasioned...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘Pues no podemos haber aquello que queremos, queramos aquello que podremos.’ ‘Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.’—Spanish Proverb

While Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under his command, felt himself struggling for Medical Reform...
Chapter LIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

News...
Chapter LXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in...
Chapter LXXVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he should be away until the evening....
Book I: Death of Louis XV.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I.: Louis the Well-beloved.

President Hénault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even when, they were conferred, takes occasion in his sleek official way to make a philosophical reflection. ‘The Surname of...
Book III. The Parlement of Paris.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Dishonoured Bills.

While the unspeakable confusion is every where weltering within, and through so many cracks in the surface sulphur-smoke is issuing, the question arises: Through what crevice will the main Explosion carry itself? Through which of the old craters or chimneys;...
Book IV. States General
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. The Notables again.

The universal prayer, therefore, is to be fulfilled! Always in days of national perplexity, when wrong abounded and help was not, this remedy of States General was called for; by a Malesherbes, nay by a Fénelon:1 even...
Book V. The Third Estate.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Inertia.

That exasperated France, in this same National Assembly of hers, has got something, nay something great, momentous, indispensable, cannot be doubted; yet still the question were: Specially what? A question hard to solve, even for calm onlookers at this...
Book I. The Feast of Pikes.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. In the Tuileries.

The victim having once got his stroke-of-grace, the catastrophe can be considered as almost come. There is small interest now in watching his long low moans: notable only are his sharper agonies, what convulsive struggles he may make to...
Book II. Nanci.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Bouillé.

Dimly visible, at Metz on the North-Eastern frontier, a certain brave Bouillé, last refuge of Royalty in all straits and meditations of flight, has for many months hovered occasionally in our eye; some name or shadow of a brave Bouillé: let...
Book VI. The Marseillese.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Executive that does not Act.

How could your paralytic National Executive be put ‘in action,’* in any measure, by such a Twentieth of June as this? Quite contrariwise: a large sympathy for Majesty so insulted arises everywhere; expresses itself in...
Book III. The Girondins.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Cause and Effect.

This huge Insurrectionary Movement, which we liken to a breaking out of Tophet and the Abyss, has swept away Royalty, Aristocracy, and a King’s life. The question is, What will it next do; how will it henceforth shape itself?...
Captain Nemo’s Last Words
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The panels had closed again over this frightening vision, but the light had not been switched on again in the salon. Inside the Nautilus there reigned only darkness and silence. It was leaving that place of destruction, 100 feet beneath the water,...
Chapter I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I am indebted to my dear parents (both now in heaven) for having had habits of order and regularity instilled into me at a very early age.

In that happy bygone time, I was taught to keep my hair tidy at all hours of the...
Chapter III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Consideration for poor Lady Verinder forbade me even to hint that I had guessed the melancholy truth, before she opened her lips. I waited her pleasure in silence; and, having privately arranged to say a few sustaining words at the first convenient opportunity, felt...
Chapter IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The signing of the Will was a much shorter matter than I had anticipated. It was hurried over, to my thinking, in indecent haste. Samuel, the footman, was sent for to act as second witness—and the pen was put at once into my aunt’s...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘I have lost a beautiful girl, an excellent social position, and a handsome income,’ Mr Godfrey began; ‘and I have submitted to it without a struggle. What can be the motive for such extraordinary conduct as that? My precious friend, there is no...

‘No...
II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

As to your cousin’s death, then, first.

It appears to me to be established, beyond any reasonable doubt, that he was killed (while he was asleep, or immediately on his waking)* by being smothered with a pillow from his bed*—that the...
LETTER I.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Saville,* England.

St. Petersburgh,* Dec. 11th, 17—.*

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

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

Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.

To V. Frankenstein.

‘my dear cousin,

‘I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning your health. We cannot help imagining that your friend Clerval conceals the extent of your...
Chapter I.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Justine died; she rested;...
Chapter III.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original æra of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and...
Chapter VI.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as...
Chapter VII.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.

‘As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil;...
Chapter III.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my...