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Chapter LXIX: Not to be put up with
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THE coat of arms, devised for me by the Royal heralds, was of great size, and rich colours, and full of bright imaginings. They did me the honour to consult me first, and to take no notice of my advice. For I begged that there...
Chapter LXXII: The Counsellor, and the Carver
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

FROM that great confusion—for nothing can be broken up, whether lawful or unlawful, without a vast amount of dust, and many people grumbling, and mourning for the good old times, when all the world was happiness, and every man a gentleman, and the sun himself...
Chapter LXXIV: Blood upon the Altar
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

EVERY thing was settled smoothly, and without any fear or fuss, that Lorna might find end of troubles, and myself of eager waiting, with the help of Parson Bowden, and the good wishes of two counties. I could scarce believe my fortune, when I ...
Chapter XI From Impington Gorse
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE fox ran straight from the coverts through his well-known haunts to Impington Park, and as the hounds were astray there for two or three minutes there was a general idea that he too had got up into a tree,—which would have amused the...
Chapter XXIV The Ball
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE people came of course, but not in such numbers as had been expected. Many of those in Rufford had heard of the accident, and, having been made acquainted with Nokes’s report, stayed away. Everybody was told that supper would be on the table...
Chapter XXXIII The Beginning of Persecution
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Mary Masters got up on the morning after her arrival, she knew that she would have to endure much on that day. Everybody had smiled on her the preceding evening, but the smiles were of a nature which declared themselves to be preparatory...
Chapter XXXVIII ‘You are so Severe’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON the next morning Arabella went to church, as did of course a great many of the party. By remaining at home she could only have excited suspicion. The church was close to the house, and the family pew consisted of a large room...
Chapter XLIII Persecution
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THERE was great consternation in the attorney’s house after the writing of the letter to Lawrence Twentyman. For twenty-four hours Mrs. Masters did not speak to Mary, not at all intending to let her sin pass with such moderate punishment as that, but thinking...
Chapter LIX The Last Effort
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Mary reached her home she was at once met by her stepmother in the passage with tidings of importance. ‘He is upstairs in the drawing-room,’ said Mrs. Masters. Mary, whose mind was laden with thoughts of Reginald Morton, asked who was...
Chapter LXXIII ‘Is It Tanti?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

REGINALD MORTON entertained serious thoughts of cleansing himself from the reproach which Larry cast upon him when describing his character to his mother. ‘I think I shall take to hunting,’ he said to Mary.

‘But you’ll tumble off, dear.’

‘No doubt I shall, and...
Chapter LXXX Conclusion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE Senator for Mikewa,—whose name we have taken for a book which might perhaps have been better called ‘The Chronicle of a Winter at Dillsborough’—did not stay long in London after the unfortunate close of his lecture. He was a man not very pervious...
Chapter V: Preparing for the Funeral
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Isabel, when she was left alone, felt that a terrible weight of duty was imposed on her. She seemed to be immediately encompassed by a double world of circumstances. There was that world of grief which was so natural, but which would yet be...
Chapter VI: Mr. Apjohn’s Explanation
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader need not be detained with any elaborate account of the funeral. Every tenant and every labourer about the place was there; as also were many of the people from Carmarthen. Llanfeare Church, which stands on a point of a little river just...
Chapter VII: Looking for the Will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The search was carried on up to nine o’clock that evening, and then Mr. Apjohn returned to Carmarthen, explaining that he would send out two men to continue the work on the Tuesday, and that he would come out again on the Wednesday to...
Chapter XX: Doubts
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I Know nothing about it, ’ Cousin Henry had gasped out when asked by Mr. Apjohn, when Ricketts, the clerk, had left the room, whether he knew where the will was hidden. Then, when he had declared he had nothing further to say,...
Chapter I
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands of Earl Lovel, to whom she was married in...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

They sent for me, Lady Lovel, to bid me come to your ladyship and ask your ladyship whether you would consent to a marriage between the two young people.’ It was thus that the tailor repeated for the second time the message which had...
Chapter XI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Countess had resolved that she would let their visitor depart without saying a word to him. Whatever might be the result of the interview, she was aware that she could not improve it by asking any question from the young lord, or by...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

After the Earl was gone Lady Anna had but a A bad time of it at Yoxham. She herself could not so far regain her composure as to live on as though no disruption had taken place. She knew that she was in disgrace,...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the day following that on which Daniel Thwaite had visited Lady Lovel in Keppel Street, the Countess received from him a packet containing a short note to herself, and the following letter addressed to Lady Anna. The enclosure was open, and in the...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Monday the 9th of November, was the day down for the trial of the case which had assumed the name of ‘Lovel versus Murray and Another.’ This denomination had been adopted many months ago, when it had been held to be practicable by the...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Saturday, Daniel was at the Serjeant’s chambers early in the morning,—long before the hour at which the Serjeant himself was wont to attend. No time had in fact been named, and the tailor had chosen to suppose, that as he had been...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Even the Bluestones were now convinced that Lady Anna Lovel must be allowed to marry the Keswick tailor, and that it would be expedient that no further impediment should be thrown in her way. Mrs. Bluestone had been told, while walking to Keppel Street...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the time that the murder was attempted Lord Lovel was in London,—and had seen Daniel Thwaite on that morning; but before any confirmed rumour had reached his ears he had left London again on his road to Yoxham. He knew now that he...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

But the Countess never gave way an inch. The following was the answer which she returned to the note written to her by Aunt Julia;—

‘The Countess Lovel presents her compliments to Miss Lovel. The Countess disapproves altogether of the marriage which is about to...
Chapter IV. What shall be Done About It?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Rachel was still thinking of Luke Rowan and of the man’s arm when she opened the cottage door, but the sight of her sister’s face, and the tone of her sister’s voice, soon brought her back to a full consciousness of her immediate present...
Chapter XIII. Mr. Tappitt in his Counting-House
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Luke Rowan, when he left the cottage, walked quickly back across the green towards Baslehurst. He had sauntered out slowly on his road from the brewery to Bragg’s End, being in doubt as to what he would do when he reached his destination; but...
The Recognition
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

From this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation, the wearer of the scarlet letter was at length relieved by discerning, on the outskirts of the crowd, a figure which irresistibly took possession of her thoughts. An Indian, in his...
Chapter VI
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Kingston—Instructive remarks on early English history—Instructive observations on carved oak and life in general—Sad case of Stivvings, junior—Musings on antiquity—I forget that I am steering—Interesting result—Hampton Court Maze—Harris as a guide...
Chapter VII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

The river in its Sunday garb—Dress on the river—A chance for the men—Absence of taste in Harris—George’s blazer—A day with the fashion-plate young lady—Mrs Thomas’s tomb—The man who loves not graves...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Blackmailing—The proper course to pursue—Selfish boorishness of river-side landowner—‘Notice’ boards—Unchristianlike feelings of Harris—How Harris sings a comic song—A high-class party—Shameful conduct of two abandoned young men—Some useless information—...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Mr and Miss Jones, of Manchester—The benefits of cocoa—A hint to the Peace Society—The window as a mediœval argument—The favourite Christian recreation—The language of the guide—How to repair the ravages of time—...
Chapter XII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

We are grieved at the earthly instincts of the German—A superb view, but no restaurant—Continental opinion of the Englishman—That he does not know enough to come in out of the rain—There comes a weary traveller with a...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

An examination into the character and behaviour of the German student—The German Mensur—Uses and abuses of use—Views of an impressionist—The humour of the thing—Recipe for making savages—The Jungfrau: her peculiar taste in faces...
Dr Hesselius Relates How He Met The Rev. Mr Jennings
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The Rev. Mr Jennings is tall and thin. He is middle-aged, and dresses with a natty, old-fashioned, high-church* precision. He is naturally a little stately, but not at all stiff. His features, without being handsome, are well-formed, and their expression extremely kind, but...
Dr Hesselius is Summoned to Richmond
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

We parted cheerfully, but he was not cheerful, nor was I. There are certain expressions of that powerful organ of spirit— the human face—which, although I have seen them often, and possess a doctor’s nerve, yet disturb me profoundly. One look of Mr Jennings haunted...
The Second Stage
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘It was with me, and the malice which before was torpid under a sullen exterior, was now active. It was perfectly unchanged in every other respect. This new energy was apparent in its activity and its looks, and soon in other ways.

‘For a time,...
Home
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I made him have candles lighted, and saw the room looking cheery and inhabited before I left him. I told him that he must regard his illness strictly as one dependent on physical, though subtle physical, causes. I told him that he had...
Softened
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

It appeared that she had repaired to the kitchen garden, pursuant to her mistress’s directions, and had there begun to make the specified election among the rank and neglected herbs which crowded one corner of the enclosure, and while engaged in this pleasant labour, she...
Caleb Searcher
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The Judge had received the letter; had he known from whom it came, he would no doubt have read it instantaneously. As it was he simply read the direction:
Arrested
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Judge Harbottle went this night to the play at Drury Lane.* He was one of those old fellows who care nothing for late hours, and occasional knocking about in pursuit of piesaure. He had appointed with two cronies of Lincoln’s Inn*...
The Judge Leaves His House
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Mrs Flora Carwell was going up the great staircase with a posset* for the Judge in a china bowl, on a little silver tray.

Across the top of the well-staircase there runs a massive oak rail; and, raising her eyes accidentally, she saw an...
The White Rose
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I was too quick for Colonel Gaillarde. As he raised his sword, reckless of all consequences but my condign punishment,* and quite resolved to cleave me to the teeth, I struck him across the side of his head, with my heavy stick; and...
The Church-Yard
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Our dinner was really good, so were the wines; better, perhaps, at this out-of-the-way inn, than at some of the more pretentious hotels in Paris. The moral effect of a really good dinner is immense—we all felt it. The serenity and good nature that follow...
I See Three Men In A Mirror
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I awoke very early next morning, and was too excited to sleep again. As soon as I could, without exciting remark, I saw my host. I told him that I was going into town that night, and thence to——, where I had to see some...
Hope
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

She had scarcely set down my heavy box, which she seemed to have considerable difficulty in raising on the table, when the door of the room in which I had seen the coffin, opened, and a sinister and unexpected apparition entered.

It was the Count...
Despair
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

A moment’s hope, hope violent and fluctuating, hope that was nearly torture, and then came a dialogue, and with it the terrors of despair.

‘Thank heaven, Planard, you have come at last,’ said the Count, taking him, with both hands, by the arm and clinging...
Ordeal and Execution
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

As he spoke one of the strangest-looking men I ever beheld, entered the chapel at the door through which Carmilla had made her entrance and her exit. He was tall, narrow-chested, stooping, with high shoulders, and dressed in black. His face was brown and dried...
Letter to Jefferson
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

After I got home, being alone and wanting amusement I sat down to explain to myself (for there is such a thing) my Ideas of natural and civil rights and the distinction between them—I send them to you to see how nearly...
Chapter III of the old and new systems of government
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilization, and commerce, are capable of carrying mankind. Government on the old system, is an assumption of power, for the aggrandisement of itself; on...
Chapter IV of constitutions
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

That men mean distinct and separate things when they speak of constitutions and of governments, is evident; or, why are those terms distinctly and separately used? A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government...
Chapter IV Blessed is He that Believeth
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Bonaparte
Blenkins sat on the side of the bed. He had wonderfully revived since the day before, held his head high, talked in a full sonorous voice, and ate greedily of all the viands offered him. At his side was a basin of soup,...
Chapter VII He sets his Trap
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘May I come in? I hope I do not disturb you, my dear friend,’ said Bonaparte, late one evening, putting his nose in at the cabin door, where the German and his son sat finishing their supper.

It was now two months since he had...
Chapter IV Lyndall
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

She was more like a princess, yes, far more like a princess, than the lady who still hung on the wall in Tant’ Sannie’s bedroom. So Em thought. She leaned back in the little armchair; she wore a grey dressing-gown, and her long hair...
Chapter XIV Waldo goes out to Sit in the Sunshine
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

It had been a princely day. The long morning had melted slowly into a rich afternoon. Rains had covered the karroo with a heavy coat of green that hid the red earth everywhere. In the very chinks of the stone walls dark green leaves...
The Husband and Father
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder. She turned, and a bright smile lighted up her fine eyes.

“George, is it you? How you...
The Freeman’s Defence
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close. Rachel Halliday moved quietly to and fro, collecting from her household stores such needments as could be arranged in the smallest compass, for the wanderers who were to go...
Topsy
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

One morning, while Miss Ophelia was busy in some of her domestic cares, St. Clare’s voice was heard, calling her at the foot of the stairs.

“Come down here, Cousin; I’ve something to show you.”

“What is it?” said Miss Ophelia, coming down, with her...
The Quadroon’s Story
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

And behold the tears of such as are oppressed; and on the side of their oppressors there was power. Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive.—Eccl. 4:1.

It was late at night, and...
The Victory
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory.”*

Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to live?

The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish...
The Young Master
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Two days after, a young man drove a light wagon up through the avenue of china-trees, and, throwing the reins hastily on the horses’ neck, sprang out and inquired for the owner of the place.

It was George Shelby; and, to show how he came...
5
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

I Had barely had time to put the wretched document back on the desk.

Professor Lidenbrock seemed preoccupied. His obsessive idea clearly hadn’t given him a moment’s rest. He had obviously pondered the question during his walk, considered it, called on every resource of his...
8
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

In less than 20 minutes, we had crossed the border into Holstein Province.* Altona, really a suburb of Hamburg, is the terminus of the line from Kiel, along which we were due to travel to the coast of the Bælts.

At half past...
26
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It must be admitted that things had gone well until now and it would have been ungracious of me to complain. But if the average difficulty didn’t increase, we couldn’t avoid reaching our goal. And what glory then! I had reached the point where...
29
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

When I came to, I found myself in semi-darkness, lying on thick covers. My uncle was watching—his eyes fixed intently on my face, looking for any sign of life. At my first sigh he took hold of my hand. When he saw my eyes...
35
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Friday, 21 August. The following day the magnificent geyser has disappeared. The wind has freshened, and quickly takes us away from Axel Island. The roaring sound gradually dies down.

The weather, if such a term may be used here, is about to change....
40
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Since the beginning of our journey I had been astonished many times; I would have thought that I was immune to surprise and blasé at any new wonder. Nevertheless, at the sight of the two letters engraved on this spot three centuries ago, I...
The Laurence Boy
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Jo! Jo! where are you?’ cried Meg, at the foot of the garret stairs.

‘Here,’ answered a husky voice from above; and running up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the ‘Heir of Redcliffe,’* wrapped up in a comforter*...
21 Laurie Makes Mischief, and Jo Makes Peace
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Jo’s face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not trouble herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to...
Chapter III The Claims of Society
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

More than an hour after Allan had set forth on his exploring expedition through his own grounds, Midwinter rose, and enjoyed, in his turn, a full view by daylight of the magnificence of the new house.

Refreshed by his long night’s rest, he descended the...
Chapter VI Midwinter in Disguise
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Towards noon, on the day of the twenty-first, Miss Milroy was loitering in the cottage garden—released from duty in the sick-room by an improvement in her mother’s health—when her attention was attracted by the sound of voices in the park. One of the voices...
Chapter XII The Clouding of the Sky
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Nine days had passed, and the tenth day was nearly at an end, since Miss Gwilt and her pupil had taken their morning walk in the cottage garden.

The night was overcast. Since sunset, there had been signs in the sky from which the popular...
Chapter I Mrs. Milroy
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Two days after Midwinter’s departure from Thorpe-Ambrose, Mrs. Milroy having completed her morning toilette, and having dismissed her nurse, rang the bell again five minutes afterwards, and on the woman’s reappearance, asked impatiently, if the post had come in.

‘Post?’ echoed the nurse. ‘Haven’t you...
Chapter V Pedgift’s Remedy
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

After waiting to hold a preliminary consultation with his son, Mr. Pedgift the elder set forth alone for his interview with Allan at the great house.

Allowing for the difference in their ages, the son was, in this instance, so accurately the reflection of the...
Chapter IX She knows the Truth
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

1.—From Mr. Bashwood to Miss Gwilt.

‘Thorpe-Ambrose, July 20th, 1851.

‘Dear Madam—I received yesterday, by private messenger, your obliging note, in which you direct me to communicate with you, through the post only, as long as there is reason to believe...
Chapter XIV Miss Gwilt’s Diary
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘All Saints’ Terrace, New Road,* London, July 28th, Monday night.—I can hardly hold my head up, I am so tired. But, in my situation, I dare not trust anything to memory. Before I go to bed, I must write my customary record of...
Chapter I At the Terminus
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On the night of the second of December, Mr. Bashwood took up his post of observation at the terminus of the South Eastern Railway for the first time. It was an earlier date, by six days, than the date which Allan had himself fixed...
Chapter XIV The Woman’s Answer
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Thus far, I have written of myself with perfect frankness and, I think I may fairly add, with some courage as well. My frankness fails me, and my courage fails me, when I look back to my husband’s farewell letter, and try to recall...
Chapter XIX The Evidence for the Defence
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The feeling of interest excited by the Trial was prodigiously increased on the fourth day. The witnesses for the defence were now to be heard; and first and foremost among them was the prisoner’s mother. She looked at her son as she lifted her...
Chapter XXII The Major makes Difficulties
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

As I opened the dining-room door, the Major hastened to meet me. He looked the brightest and the youngest of living elderly gentlemen—with his smart blue frock-coat, his winning smile, his ruby ring, and his ready compliment. It was quite cheering to meet the modern...
Chapter XXIII My Mother-in-Law Surprises me
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I took a chair at a respectful distance from the sofa on which Mrs Macallan seated herself. The old lady smiled, and beckoned to me to take my place by her side. Judging by appearances, she had certainly not come to see me in...
Chapter XXXIV Gleninch
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I found Benjamin at the hotel, poring over a cheap periodical; absorbed in guessing one of the weekly ‘Enigmas’* which the Editor presented to his readers. My old friend was a great admirer of these verbal ‘puzzles,’ and had won all sorts...
Chapter XXXV Mr Playmore’s Prophecy
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

We reached London between eight and nine in the evening. Strictly methodical in all his habits, Benjamin had telegraphed to his housekeeper, from Edinburgh, to have supper ready for us by ten o’clock, and to send the cabman whom he always employed to meet...
Chapter XL Nemesis at Last!
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The gardener opened the gate to us on this occasion. He had evidently received his orders, in anticipation of my arrival.

‘Mrs Valeria?’ he asked.

‘Yes.’

‘And friend?’

‘And friend.’

‘Please to step upstairs. You know the house.’

Crossing the hall, I stopped for...
Chapter XLI Mr Playmore in a New Character
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

By that night’s post—although I was far from being fit to make the exertion—I wrote to Mr Playmore, to tell him what had taken place, and to beg for his earliest assistance and advice.

The notes in Benjamin’s book were partly written in shorthand, and...
Chapter XLVII The Wife’s Confession
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Gleninch, October 19, 18—.

‘My Husband:—

I have something very painful to tell you, about one of your oldest friends.

‘You have never encouraged me to come to you with any confidences of mine. If you had allowed me to be as familiar...
Chapter XVI Geoffrey as a Public Character
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Time had advanced to after noon, before the selection of Geoffrey’s future wife was accomplished, and before the instructions of Geoffrey’s brother were complete enough to justify the opening of the matrimonial negotiation at Nagle’s Hotel.

‘Don’t leave him till you have got his...
Chapter XXIII Done!
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The talk in the library—aimless and empty enough, for the most part—was talk to the purpose, in one corner of the room, in which Sir Patrick and Blanche were sitting together.

‘Uncle! I have been watching you for the last minute or two.’

‘At my...
Chapter XXVIII Backwards
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Well?’ whispered Blanche, taking her uncle confidentially by the arm.

‘Well,’ said Sir Patrick, with a spark of his satirical humour flashing out at his niece. ‘I am going to do a very rash thing. I am going to place a...
Chapter XXXIX The Day
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The promise of the weather-glass was fulfilled. The sun shone on Blanche’s marriage.

At nine in the morning, the first of the proceedings of the day began. It was essentially of a clandestine nature. The bride and bridegroom evaded the restraints of lawful authority, and...
Chapter LI A Scotch Marriage
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was Saturday, the third of October—the day on which the assertion of Arnold’s marriage to Anne Silvester was to be put to the proof.

Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, Blanche and her stepmother entered the drawing-room of Lady Lundie’s town-house in Portland Place....
Chapter LII The Last Chance
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘His lordship is dangerously ill, sir. Her ladyship can receive no visitors.’

‘Be so good as to take that card to Lady Holchester. It is absolutely necessary that your mistress should be made acquainted—in the interests of her younger son—with something which I can...
Chapter LV The Morning
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When does the vain regret find its keenest sting? When is the doubtful future blackened by its darkest cloud? When is life least worth having, and death oftenest at the bedside? In the terrible morning hours, when the sun is rising in its glory,...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this day, less known to the inhabitants of...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many...
Mr. and Mrs. Squeers at Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. squeers, being safely landed, left Nicholas and the boys standing with the luggage in the road, to amuse themselves by looking at the coach as it changed horses, while he ran into the tavern and went through the leg-stretching process at...
Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a New Capacity, and being unsuccessful, accepts an engagement as Tutor in a Private Family
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The first care of Nicholas, next morning, was, to look after some room in which, until better times dawned upon him, he could contrive to exist, without trenching upon the hospitality of Newman Noggs, who would have slept upon the stairs with pleasure, so...
Madame Mantalini finds herself in a Situation of some Difficulty, and Miss Nickleby finds herself in no Situation at all
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The agitation she had undergone, rendered Kate Nickleby unable to resume her duties at the dressmaker’s for three days, at the expiration of which interval she betook herself at the accustomed hour, and with languid steps, to the temple of fashion where Madame Mantalini...
Festivities are held in honour of Nicholas, who suddenly withdraws himself from the Society of Mr. Vincent Crummles and his Theatrical Companions
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. vincent
crummles was no sooner acquainted with the public announcement which Nicholas had made relative to the probability of his shortly ceasing to be a member of the company, than he evinced many tokens of grief and consternation; and, in the...
Relating chiefly to some remarkable Conversation, and some remarkable Proceedings to which it gives rise
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘London at last!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great-coat and rousing Smike from a long nap. ‘It seemed to me as though we should never reach it.’

‘And yet you came along at a tidy pace too,’ observed the coachman, looking over his shoulder...
Private and confidential) relating to Family Matters. Showing how Mr. Kenwigs underwent violent Agitation, and how Mrs. Kenwigs was as well as could be expected
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It might have been seven o’clock in the evening, and it was growing dark in the narrow streets near Golden Square, when Mr. Kenwigs sent out for a pair of the cheapest white kid gloves———those at fourteenpence—and selecting the strongest, which happened to be...
Containing some Romantic Passages between Mrs. Nickleby and the Gentleman in the Small-clothes next Door
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Ever since her last momentous conversation with her son, Mrs. Nickleby had begun to display unusual care in the adornment of her person, gradually superadding to those staid and matronly habiliments which had, up to that time, formed her ordinary attire, a variety of...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There go the three-quarters past!’ muttered Newman Noggs, listening to the chimes of some neighbouring church,‘and my dinner time’s two. He does it on purpose. He makes a point of it. It’s just like him.’

It was in his own little den of an office...
Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray, but plucks up his Spirits again, and determines to attempt it. Domestic Intelligence of the Kenwigses and. Lillyvicks
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Finding that Newman was determined to arrest his progress at any hazard, and apprehensive that some well-intentioned passenger attracted by the cry of‘stop thief,’ might lay violent hands upon his person, and place him in a disagreeable predicament from which he might have some...
Ralph makes one last Appointment—and keeps it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Creeping from the house, and slinking off like a thief; groping with his hands when first he got into the street, as if he were a blind man; and looking often over his shoulder while he hurried away, as though he were followed in...
The Brothers Cheeryble make various Declarations for themselves and others. Tim Linkinwater makes a Declaration for himself
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Some weeks had passed, and the first shock of these events had subsided. Madeline had been removed; Frank had been absent; Nicholas and Kate had begun to try in good earnest to stifle their own regrets, and to live for each other and for...
Chapter the Eighth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Business disposed of, Mr. Swiveller was inwardly reminded of its being nigh dinner-time, and to the intent that his health might not be endangered by longer abstinence, despatched a message to the nearest eating-house requiring an immediate supply of boiled beef and greens for...
Chapter the Nineth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The child, in her confidence with Mrs. Quilp, had but feebly described the sadness and sorrow of her thoughts, or the heaviness of the cloud which overhung her home, and cast dark shadows on its hearth. Besides that it was very difficult to...
Chapter the Thirty-Fourth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In course of time, that is to say, after a couple of hours or so, of diligent application, Miss Brass arrived at the conclusion of her task, and recorded the fact by wiping her pen upon the green gown, and taking a pinch of...
Chapter the Sixty-Eighth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Lighted rooms, bright fires, cheerful faces, the music of glad voices, words of love and welcome, warm hearts, and tears of happiness— what a change is this! But it is to such delights that Kit is hastening. They are awaiting him, he knows....
Chapter I the dawn of a gala day
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there...
Chapter III molly gibson’s childhood
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Sixteen years before this time, all Hollingford had been disturbed to its foundations by the intelligence that Mr Hall, the skilful doctor, who had attended them all their days, was going to take a partner. It was no use reasoning to them on the...
Chapter VIII drifting into danger
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

On Thursday, the quiet country household was stirred through all its fibres with the thought of Roger’s coming home. Mrs Hamley had not seemed quite so well, or quite in such good spirits for two or three days before; and the squire himself had...
Chapter IX the widower and the widow
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Kirkpatrick was only too happy to accept Lady Cumnor’s invitation. It was what she had been hoping for, but hardly daring to expect, as she believed that the family were settled in London for some time to come. The Towers was a pleasant...
Chapter XXVIII rivalry
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

For some days after the ball Cynthia seemed languid, and was very silent. Molly, who had promised herself fully as much enjoyment in talking over the past gaiety with Cynthia as in the evening itself, was disappointed when she found that all conversation on...
Chapter XXX old ways and new ways
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
Preston was now installed in his new house at Hollingford; Mr Sheepshanks having entered into dignified idleness at the house of his married daughter, who lived in the county town. His successor had plunged with energy into all manner of improvements; and among...
Chapter XXXVII a fluke, and what came of it
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The honour and glory of having a lover of her own was soon to fall to Molly’s share; though to be sure it was a little deduction to the honour that the man who came with the full intention of proposing to her, ended...
Chapter XLII the storm bursts
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The autumn drifted away through all its seasons; the golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and...
Chapter XLVII scandal and its victims
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Mr Gibson returned to Hollingford, he found an accumulation of business waiting for him, and he was much inclined to complain of the consequences of the two days’ comparative holiday, which had resulted in over-work for the week to come. He had hardly...
Chapter XLIX molly gibson finds a champion
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Lady
Cumnor had so far recovered from the violence of her attack, and from the consequent operation, as to be able to be removed to the Towers for change of air; and accordingly she was brought thither by her whole family with all the...
Chapter LI ‘troubles never come alone’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Molly had her out-of-door things on, and she crept away as she was bidden; she lifted her heavy weight of heart and body along till she came to a field, not so very far off,—where she had sought the comfort of loneliness ever since...
Chapter LIX molly gibson at hamley hall
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The conversation ended there for the time. Wedding-cake and wine were brought in, and it was Molly’s duty to serve them out. But those last words of Mrs Goodenough’s tingled in her ears, and she tried to interpret them to her own satisfaction in...
9: The Simple Faith
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Seated in the reading-room of a club to which he had newly procured admission, Everard Barfoot was glancing over the advertisement columns of a literary paper. His eye fell on an announcement that had a personal interest for him, and at once he went...
15: The Joys of Home
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Monica and her husband, on leaving the house in Queen’s Road, walked slowly in the eastward direction. Though night had fallen, the air was not unpleasant; they had no object before them, and for five minutes they occupied themselves with their thoughts. Then Widdowson...
25: The Fate of the Ideal
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Rhoda’s week at the seashore was spoilt by uncertain weather. Only two days of abiding sunshine; for the rest, mere fitful gleams across a sky heaped with stormclouds. Over Wastdale hung a black canopy; from Scawfell came mutterings of thunder; and on the last...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Although Mary had hardly been conscious of her thoughts, and it had been more like a secret instinct informing her soul, than the result of any process of reasoning, she...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Not many days after John Barton’s funeral was...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Butler, on his departure from the sign of the Golden Nag, went in quest of a friend of his connected with the law, of whom he wished to...
Chapter XI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

We have been a long while in...
Chapter XII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Come in,’ answered the low and sweet-toned voice he loved best to hear, as Butler...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Like the digressive...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

It is by no means my intention to describe minutely the forms of a Scottish criminal trial, nor am I sure that I could draw up an account so intelligible and accurate as...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

In pursuing her solitary journey, our heroine, soon after passing the house of Dumbiedikes, gained a little eminence, from which, on...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

As our traveller set out early on the ensuing morning to prosecute her journey, and was in the act of leaving the inn-yard, Dick Ostler, who either had risen early...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Pursuing the path which Madge had chosen, Jeanie Deans observed, to her no small delight, that marks of more cultivation appeared, and the thatched roofs of houses,...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

While Mr Staunton, for such was this worthy clergyman’s name, was laying aside his gown in the vestry, Jeanie was in the act of coming to an open rupture with...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Jeanie arose from her seat, and made her quiet reverence, when the elder Mr Staunton entered the apartment. His astonishment was extreme at finding his son in such...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The fatigue and agitation of these various scenes had agitated Jeanie so much, notwithstanding her robust...
Chapter III
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its extreme length and width, a long oaken...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, past through the intricate...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The apartment to...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When the Jester, arrayed in the cowl and frock of the hermit, and having his knotted...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be called such, had taken place, that a low knock was heard at...
Chapter XL
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When the Black Knight—for it becomes necessary to resume the train of his adventures—left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held his way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent and revenue, called the...
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Madame Bonancieux and the duke entered the Louvre without any difficulty; Madame Bonancieux was known to be of the household of the queen; and the duke wore the uniform of the musketeers of M. de Treville, who, as we have said, were on guard...
In which the Keeper of the Seals, Séguier, looked more than once after the bell, that he might ring it as he had been used to do
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It is impossible to form an idea of the impression which these few words produced on the king. He grew red and pale by turns, and the cardinal saw immediately that he had regained, by a single stroke, all the ground that he had...
The Countess de Winter
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As they hurried on, the duke heard from d’Artagnan, not really all that had occurred, but all that d’Artagnan himself knew. By putting together what fell from the lips of the young man, and what was supplied by his own recollections, he was enabled to...
A Conjugal Scene
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Athos had foreseen, the cardinal was not long before he descended. He opened the door of the room in which he had left the three musketeers, and found Porthos and Aramis engaged in a most earnest game of dice. With a rapid glance, he...
A Chat between a Brother and Sister
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

During the time which Lord de Winter occupied in shutting and bolting the door, and bringing a seat beside the easy-chair of his sister-in-law, her ladyship was thoughtfully directing her glance into the dephts of possibility, and discovering the whole of that plot, of...
An Event in Classical Tragedy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

After a moment’s silence, which her ladyship employed in observing the young officer who was listening to her, she continued her recital.

‘For nearly three days, I had neither eaten nor drunk,’ said she, ‘and I was suffering dreadful tortures, Sometimes, a feeling as of...
X ‘Beneath the shelter of an aged tree.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Stephen retraced his steps towards the cottage he had visited only two or three hours previously. He drew near and under the rich foliage growing about the outskirts of Endelstow Park, the spotty lights and shades from the shining moon maintaining a race over...
XIV ‘We frolic while ’tis May.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It has now to be realized that nearly three-quarters of a year have passed away. In place of the autumnal scenery which formed a setting to the previous enactments, we have the culminating blooms of summer in the year following.

Stephen is in India, slaving...
XXIX ‘Care, thou canker.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It is an evening at the beginning of October, and the mellowest of autumn sunsets irradiates London, even to its uttermost eastern end. Between the eye and the flaming West, columns of smoke stand up in the still air like tall trees. Everything in...
XXX ‘Vassal unto Love.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Elfride clung more closely to Knight as day succeeded day. Whatever else might admit of question, there could be no dispute that the allegiance she bore him absorbed her whole soul and existence. A greater than Stephen had arisen, and she had left all...
XXXII ‘Had I wist before I kist.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

I t was now October, and the night air was chill. After looking to see that she was well wrapped up Knight took her along the hillside path they had pursued so many times in each other’s company, when doubt was a thing...
XXXVI ‘The pennie’s the jewel that beautifies a’.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

‘I can’t think what’s coming to these St. Launce’s people at all at all.’

‘With their “How-d’ye-do’s,” do you mean?’

‘Ay, with their “How-d’ye-do’s,” and shaking of hands, asking me in, and tender inquiries for you, John.’

These words formed part of a conversation between...
Interlopers at the Knap
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

I

The north road from Casterbridge is tedious and lonely, especially in winter time. Along a part of its course it connects with Long-Ash Lane,* a monotonous track without a village or hamlet for many miles, and with very seldom a turning....