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The Master of Logan
Authors: Cunningham Allan
Published: December 2020

Even in our ashes live our wonted fires.—Gray*

One summer’s eve, as I passed through a burial-ground on the banks of the Nith,* I saw an old man resting on a broad flat stone which covered a grave. The church...
Chapter VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was a great relief to the girl at last to feel sine that the dreadful move would really be made. What might happen if it shouldn’t had been from the first indefinite. It was absurd to pretend that any violence was probable—a tussle,...
Chapter XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The sense of her dryness, which was ominous of a complication, made Fleda, before complying, linger a little on the terrace: she felt the need moreover of taking breath after such a flight into the cold air of denial. When at last she rejoined...
Chapter XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I must in common decency let him know I’ve talked of the matter with you,’ she said to her hostess that evening. ‘What answer do you wish me to write him?’

‘Write him that you must see him again,’ said Mrs Gereth.

Fleda looked...
LETTER II
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

In the various modes of penance invented by the various penance mongers of pious austerity, did you ever hear the travelling in an Irish post-chaise* enumerated as a punishment, which by far exceeds horsehair...
LETTER III
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I perceive my father emulates the policy of the British Legislature, and delegates English ministers to govern his Irish domains. Who, do you think, is his fac-totum* here? The rascally son of his cunning Leicestershire steward who unites...
LETTER IV
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I can support this wretched state of non-existence, this articula mortis* no longer. I cannot read—I cannot think—nothing touches, nothing interests me; neither is it permitted me to indulge my sufferings in solitude. These hospitable people still weary...
LETTER XIII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

The conduct of this girl is inexplicable. Since the unfortunate picture scene three days back, she has excused herself twice from the drawing-desk; and to-day appeared at it with the priest by her side. Her playful familiarity is vanished, and a...
LETTER XV
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

It certainly requires less nicety of perception to distinguish differences in kind than differences in degree; but though my present, like my past situation, is solitudinous in the extreme, it demands no very great discernment to discover, that my...
LETTER XVII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I forgot to mention to you in my last, that to my utter joy and surprise, our premier here has been recalled. On the day of my return, he received a letter from his Lord, desiring his immediate attendance...
LETTER XIX
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

All the life-giving spirit of spring, mellowed by the genial glow of summer, shed its choicest treasures on the smiling hours which yesterday ushered in the most delightful of all the seasons.

I arose earlier than usual; the elixity of my...
LETTER XXI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

It is certain, that you men of the world are nothing less than men of pleasure-.—would you taste it in all its essence, come to Inismore. Ah! no, pollute not with your presence the sacred palladium*...
Chapter IX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn,

And from its covert starts the fearful prey,

Who, warm’d with youth's blood in his swelling veins,

Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie,

Shut out from all the fair creation offers?
7. Which Shows Once More the Uselessness of Passports as a Means of Control
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The inspector went back down to the quayside and headed quickly for the British Consulate. He was so insistent that he was immediately ushered into the Consul’s office.

‘Sir,’ he said coming straight to the point, ‘I have strong reasons for believing that our man...
13. In Which Passepartout Proves Once Again That Fortune Favours the Bold
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The plan was a bold one, bristling with difficulties, perhaps impossible to execute. Mr Fogg was going to risk his life, or at the very least his liberty and hence the success of his project; but he did not hesitate. He found, moreover, staunch...
16. Where Fix Gives the Impression of Not Knowing About Events Reported to Him
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The
Rangoon, one of the steamships P. & 0. employ on the China Seas and the Sea of Japan, was a screw-driven iron steamer, of 1,770 tons burden and a nominal 400 hp. She was the equal of the Mongolia for speed,...
29. Where a Tale Is Told of Diverse Incidents That Could Happen Only on the Railroads of the Union
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

That same evening, the train continued on its way without meeting any further obstacles, went past Fort Sanders, crossed Cheyenne Pass, and arrived at Evans Pass. At this spot the railroad reached the highest point on its route: 8,091 feet above sea level.*...
30. In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Three passengers had disappeared, including Passepartout. Had they been killed in the struggle? Were they prisoners of the Sioux? It was too soon to say.

There were quite a number of wounded, but it was quickly realized that none were fatally injured. One of the...
Malthus
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

‘A swaggering paradox, when once explained, soon sinks into an unmeaning common-place.’*

I

This excellent saying of a great man was never more strictly applicable to any system than it is to Mr Malthus’s paradox, and his explanation of it. It seemed, on...
On Public Opinion
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Once asking a friend why he did not bring forward an explanation of a circumstance, in which his conduct had been called in question, he said, ‘His friends were satisfied on the subject, and he cared...
Our National Theatres
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

The motto of the English nation is ‘exclusion’. In this consists our happiness and our pride. If you come to a gentleman’s park and pleasure-grounds, you see written up, ‘Man-traps and steel-guns set here’—as if he had no pleasure in walking in them, except...
On Personal Identity
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

‘If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes!’ said the Macedonian hero; and the cynic might have retorted the compliment upon the prince by saying, that, ‘were he not Diogenes, he...
Characteristics
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

105. The error in the reasonings of Mandeville, Rochefoucault, and others,* is this: they first find out that there is something mixed in the motives of all our actions, and they then proceed to argue, that they must all...
On Poetry in General
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

The best general notion which I can give of poetry is, that it is the natural impression of any object or event, by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion, and producing, by sympathy, a certain modulation of the...
Chapter XV
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

When, in the course of our tour of inspection, we came to the library, we succumbed to the temptation of the luxurious leather chairs with which it was furnished, and sat down in one of the book-lined alcoves to rest and chat awhile.1...
Chapter XX
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

That afternoon Edith casually inquired if I had yet revisited the underground chamber in the garden in which I had been found.

“Not yet,” I replied. “To be frank, I have shrunk thus far from doing so, lest the visit might revive old associations rather...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

We had made an appointment to meet the ladies at the dininghall for dinner, after which, having some engagement, they left us sitting at table there, discussing our wine and cigars with a multitude of other matters.

“Doctor,” said I, in the course of our...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

I think if a person were ever excusable for losing track of the days of the week, the circumstances excused me. Indeed, if I had been told that the method of reckoning time had been wholly changed and the days were now counted in...
Chapter II
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

The thirtieth day of May, 1887, fell on a Monday. It was one of the annual holidays of the nation in the latter third of the nineteenth century, being set apart under the name of Decoration Day,* for doing honor to the...
6. The Captain loses the battle
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

’You won’t meet an old man, or a young man in love,’ he continued after a pause, ‘because you love your daughter too much to subject her to the stratagems of an old rake, and because you, Baroness Hulot, sister of the old Lieutenant-General who...
11. Conversation between an old maid and a young one
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Ever since she had arrived in Paris, Cousin Bette had been eaten up with admiration for cashmere shawls and had become obsessed with the idea of having the yellow cashmere shawl which the Baron had given his wife in 1808. In accordance with the custom...
13. The Louvre
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At seven o’clock the Baron, seeing his brother, his son, the Baroness, and Hortense all engaged in playing whist, left to go and applaud his mistress at the Opera. He took with him Cousin Bette, who lived in the Rue du Doyenné and always made...
19. How couples separate in the thirteenth district
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

As he was about to go into the Opera, the Councillor of State was struck by the rather gloomy appearance of that temple of art on the Rue Lepeletier, where he saw no gendarmes, no lights, no attendants, no barriers to hold back the crowd....
35. In which the tail-end of an ordinary novel comes in the middle of this story which is only too close to reality, touches on the amatory, and is frighteningly moral
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Adeline, amazed at learning her uncle was saved and at seeing a dowry included in the marriage contract, felt a kind of anxiety mingled with her happiness at the arrangement of Hortense’s marriage on such honourable terms. But the day before his daughter’s marriage, planned...
41. Cousin Bette’s hopes
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

As Valérie’s wardrobe was amply paid for by both Crevel and the Baron, the two friends made another thousand francs a month out of that. And so this pure, innocent young woman had already acquired savings of one hundred and fifty thousand francs. She had...
45. Back from the dead with a fortune
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Madame Marneffe, whose drawing-room was full of her faithful adherents, had just set the usual games of whist going, when the footman, a retired military man recruited by the Baron, announced, ‘Monsieur le Baron Montes de Montéjanos.’

Valérie had a violent emotional shock, but she...
56. Effect of the honeymoon on the arts
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

During the first months of their marriage, the artist was in love with his wife. Hortense and Wenceslas indulged in the adorable childlike antics of happy, legitimate, boundless love. Hortense was then the first to excuse Wenceslas from all work, proud of thus being able...
60. A fine entrance
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Stidmann, Claude Vignon, and Count Steinbock arrived almost all at the same time, about six o’clock.

Any ordinary or, if you like, unsophisticated woman would have hurried to greet the man whose presence she had so ardently desired, when his name was announced. But Valérie,...
65. The first dagger-blow
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lulled by her own hopes, Hortense believed she had a happy future, and she was talking to her twenty-month-old son in that onomatopoeic langauge which makes children smile, when, about eleven o’clock, the cook, who had not seen Wenceslas go out, showed Stidmann...
69. A second father for the Marneffe child
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Ten minutes after the dispatch of this fatal letter, Baron Hulot arrived. Madame Marneffe flung her arms round the old man’s neck with kittenish grace.

‘Hector, you’re a father!’ she whispered to him. ‘That’s what comes of quarrelling and making up again.’

Seeing a certain...
86. A different style of dressing
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When Adeline had returned to her room, she went and scrutinized herself in the mirror. She studied her reflection sadly and questioningly, asking herself:

‘Am I still beautiful? Am I still desirable? Am I wrinkled?’

She pushed back her beautiful fair hair and uncovered her...
90. Another guitar
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Unfortunately, on the way from the Rue Plumet to get his share certificates from his own house, Crevel had to go by the Rue Vaneau and he could not resist the pleasure of going to see his little duchess.

He still looked upset when he...
94. A theory about press reports
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The next day, several newspapers contained, under various headings, the following items:

‘M. le Baron Hulot d’Ervy has just sent in his resignation. The irregularities in the accounts of the Algerian administration, which have come to light with the death and flight of two officials,...
102. The sword of Damocles
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Célestine and Hortense, who had become much more attached to each other by living under the same roof, spent nearly all their time together.

The Baroness, impelled by a moral feeling that made her exaggerate the obligations of her post, devoted herself to the charitable...
108. The police
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Seeing Monsieur Chapuzot alone in his office, Victorin Hulot thanked him for his help.

‘You sent me an old woman who could serve to personify the criminal side of Paris,’ he said.

Monsieur Chapuzot put his spectacles down on his papers and looked at the...
128. Recognition
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Baroness was roused from these painful thoughts by the greeting of the stove-fitter, who came to show her evidence of his prosperity.

‘In a year, I’ll be able to pay back the money you lent us, Madame, for it’s God’s money; it belongs to...
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, &c.
Authors: Defoe Daniel
Published: December 2020

I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York,* of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen,* who settled first at Hull:* He...
How Old Joe comes home, and gives the puppet the breakfast that the poor man had brought for himself.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Poor Pinocchio, whose eyes were still only half open, had not yet noticed that his feet were burnt to bits; so the minute he heard his father’s voice, he jumped down from the stool to run and pull back the bolt. But instead, after staggering...
How Old Joe makes new feet for Pinocchio, and sells his own cape to buy him an alphabet book.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As soon as his hunger had vanished, the puppet promptly began to grumble and cry because he wanted a new pair of feet.

But Old Joe, to punish him for his naughtiness, left him to cry and mope for half the day. Then he said...
How the puppets recognize Pinocchio as their brother, and make a great fuss of him; but how the puppeteer, Swallowfire, appears in the middle of it all and Pinocchio is in danger of coming to grief.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

When Pinocchio entered the puppet theatre something happened which nearly started a revolution.

By now the curtain had been raised and the play had begun.

Harlequin and Punchinello were on stage,* quarrelling with each other and, as usual, they were threatening to come...
At the Red Lobster Inn
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

They walked and walked and walked. At last, towards evening, they arrived dead tired at the Red Lobster Inn.

‘Let’s stop here for a while,’ said the Fox. ‘We’ll have a bite to eat and rest up for a few hours. We shall...
How the beautiful Little Girl with indigo hair has the puppet taken down, and puts him to bed, and calls three doctors to see whether he is alive or dead.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Poor Pinocchio, hanged by the murderers on a branch of the Great Oak, by now seemed more dead than alive. Meanwhile, the beautiful Little Girl with indigo hair came to the window once more and, filled with pity at the sight of that unfortunate dangling...
Lucerne
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

8 July

Last night I arrived at Lucerne, and put up at the best hotel here, the Schweizerhof.

‘Lucerne, an ancient town and the capital of the canton, situated on the shore of the Lake of Lucerne,’ says Murray,* ‘is one of the...
The Devil
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for...
Chapter XIII: Showing, what became of Martin and his desperate Resolve, after he left Mr. Pecksniff’s House; what persons he Encountered; what Anxieties he Suffered; and what News he Heard
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Carrying Tom Pinch’s book quite unconsciously under his arm, and not even buttoning his coat as a protection against the heavy rain, Martin went doggedly forward at the same quick pace, until he had passed the finger-post, and was on the high road to...
Chapter XXXI: Mr. Pinch is discharged of a Duty which he never owed to Anybody; and Mr. Pecksniff discharges a Duty which he owes to Society
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The closing words of the last chapter, lead naturally to the commencement of this, its successor; for it has to do with a church. With the church so often mentioned heretofore, in which Tom Pinch played the organ for nothing.

One sultry afternoon, about...
Chapter XLI: Mr. Jonas and his Friend, arriving at a Pleasant Understanding, set forth upon an Enterprise
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The office of the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Insurance Company being near at hand; and Mr. Montague driving Jonas straight there; they had very little way to go. But the journey might have been one of several hours’ duration, without provoking a remark...
Chapter LI: Sheds New and Brighter Light upon the Very Dark Place; and contains the Sequel of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas and his Friend
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The night had now come, when the old clerk was to be delivered over to his keepers. In the midst of his guilty distractions, Jonas had not forgotten it.

It was a part of his guilty state of mind to remember it; for on his...
II: The Faun
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Donatello,” playfully cried Miriam, “do not leave us in this perplexity! Shake aside those brown curls, my friend, and let us see whether this marvellous resemblance extends to the very tips of the ears. If so, we shall like you all the better!”...
VI: The Virgin’s Shrine
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After Donatello had left the studio, Miriam herself came forth, and taking her way through some of the intricacies of the city, entered what might be called either a widening of a street, or a small piazza. The neighborhood comprised a baker’s oven, emitting...
XVII: Miriam’s Trouble
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

As usual, of a moonlight evening, several carriages stood at the entrance of this famous ruin, and the precincts and interiour were anything but a solitude. The French sentinel, on duty beneath the principal archway, eyed our party curiously, but offered no obstacle to...
Book III
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Count
d’Erfeuil had been present at the ceremony on the Capitol and, coming the next day to see Lord Nelvil, said, ‘My dear Oswald, would you like me to take you to Corinne’s this evening?’ ‘What,’ interrupted Lord Nelvil eagerly,...
Book V
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

When they saw each other the next day, Oswald and Corinne were embarrassed. Corinne no longer had confidence in the love she inspired. Oswald was displeased with himself; he knew there was a kind of weakness in his character which sometimes made...
Book XVI
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

As soon as people heard of Corinne’s arrival in Venice, everyone was very anxious to see her. When she went to a café in the Piazza San Marco, people crowded under the arcades round the square to catch sight of her for a...
Chapter IX: Birds in the Bush
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Rosa, having no relation that she knew of in the world, had, from the seventh year of her age, known no home but the Nuns’ House, and no mother but Miss Twinkleton. Her remembrance of her own mother was of a pretty little creature...
Chapter XIII: Both at their Best
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Miss Twinkleton’s establishment was about to undergo a serene hush. The Christmas recess was at hand. What had once, and at no remote period, been called, even by the erudite Miss Twinkleton herself, “the half;” but what was now called, as being more elegant,...
Chapter XX: A Flight
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Rosa no sooner came to herself than the whole of the late interview was before her. It even seemed as if it had pursued her into her insensibility, and she had not had a moment’s unconsciousness of it. What to do, she was at...
Chapter XXI: A Recognition
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Nothing occurred in the night to flutter the tired dove, and the dove arose refreshed. with Mr. Grewgious when the clocks struck ten in the morning, came Mr. Crisparkle, who had come at one plunge out of the river at Cloisterham.

“Miss Twinkleton was so...
Chapter XXII: A Gritty State of Things Comes on
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tartar’s chambers were the neatest, the cleanest, and the best ordered chambers ever seen under the sun, moon, and stars. The floors were scrubbed to that extent, that you might have supposed the London blacks emancipated for ever, and gone out...
The Belfast Address (1874)
Authors: Tyndall John
Published: December 2020

The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of science must, in so far as they do...
On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870)
Authors: Otis Laura
Published: December 2020

This essay was originally a lecture delivered to the British Association at Liverpool, 16 September 1870.

[Previously] I had been thinking much of light and heat, of magnetism and electricity, of organic germs, atoms, molecules, spontaneous generation, comets, and skies. With one or another of...
From Two on a Tower (1882)
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

He brought a little lantern from the cabin, and lighted her up the winding staircase to the temple of that sublime mystery on whose threshold he stood as priest.

The top of the column was quite changed. The tub-shaped space within the parapet,...
The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883)
Authors: A. Proctor Richard
Published: December 2020

To the poet of old, who could judge only by what his eyes showed him, the starlit heavens, the moon walking in brightness, the sun rejoicing as a giant to run his course, the planets, which
In the Cage (1898)
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In James’s story, the unnamed protagonist is engaged to Mr Mudge, a grocer. When she marries, she will be leaving her office and going to live in Chalk Farm. Because telegraphy offers contact with upper-class clients and stimulates her imagination, she is not looking forward...
From Dombey and Son (1847–8)
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Besides telling the story of proud Mr Dombey and his unscrupulous business manager, Carker, Dombey and Son shows how the rapidly growing railways were affecting British society in the 1840s. In the first passage, Mr Dombey is accompanying his friend, Major Bagstock, on...
From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)
Authors: Davy Sir Humphry
Published: December 2020

Medicine and Physiology, those sciences which connect the preservation of the health of the human being with the abstruse philosophy of organized nature, will be found to have derived from chemistry most of their practical applications; and many of the analogies which have contributed to...
From Cellular Pathology (1858)
Authors: Virchow Rudolf
Published: December 2020

Rudolf Virchow’s Cellular Pathology consists of a series of lectures ‘taken down in short-hand, just as they were delivered’ at the Berlin Pathological Institute in 1856–7. His audience consisted mainly of practising physicians, and he supported his claims with numerous microscopical preparations which...
From Middlemarch (1871–2)
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Starting with some general reflections on history, Eliot offers readers the history of one of her main characters, Dr Tertius Lydgate, explaining what attracted him to the district of Middlemarch.

A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to...
The Mask of the Red Death (1842)
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

A Fantasy

The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator* and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse...
From Principles of Biology (1864–7)
Authors: Spencer Herbert
Published: December 2020

What is an individual? is a question which many readers will think it easy to answer. Yet it is a question that has led to much controversy among Zoologists and Botanists; and no quite satisfactory reply to it seems possible. As applied to a man,...
From Confessions of an English Opium–Eater (1822)
Authors: De Quincey Thomas
Published: December 2020

Arrived at my lodgings, it may be supposed that I lost not a moment in taking the quantity prescribed. I was necessarily ignorant of the whole art and mystery of opium-taking: and, what I took, I took under every disadvantage. But I took it:—and in...
From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843)
Authors: Elliotson John
Published: December 2020

Case of Amputation of a Leg Above the Knee, Without Pain, in the Mesmeric State: Description of the Case

‘I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.’

—m. g. lewis

‘Le vrai n’est pas toujours vraisemblable.’

—fontenelle*

On...
From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Authors: Louis Stevenson Robert
Published: December 2020

Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

I was born in the year 18—to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as might have been...
Address to the German Chemical Society (1890)
Authors: Kekulé August
Published: December 2020

They say that genius thinks in leaps. Gentlemen, the waking mind does not think in leaps. It is not in its power to do so.

Perhaps it would be of interest if I lay out for you, through some highly indiscreet disclosures of my mental...
1
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar*

The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s* Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St Louis.*

In 1830*...
7
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

The company broke up reluctantly, and drifted toward their several homes, chatting with vivacity, and all agreeing that...
9
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who,...
14
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the...
18
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

Thanksgiving Day.—Let all give humble, hearty,...
5
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

[A long and vigorous quarrel follows, between the twins. And there is plenty to quarrel about, for Angelo was always seeking truth, and this obliged him to change and improve his religion with frequency, which wearied Luigi, and annoyed him too; for he had to...
I
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. It was so proud...
II
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Hadleyburg village woke up world-celebrated—astonished—happy—vain. Vain beyond imagination. Its nineteen principal citizens and their wives went about shaking hands with each other, and beaming, and smiling, and congratulating, and saying this thing adds a new word to the dictionary—Hadleyburg, synonym for...
Chapter X
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr. Sandford finding his friend Dorriforth frequently perplexed in the management of his ward, and he himself thinking her incorrigible, gave his advice, that a proper match should be immediately sought out for her, and the care of so dangerous a person...
Chapter II
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When the time for Miss Woodley to depart arrived, Miss Milner entreated earnestly to accompany her home, and made the most solemn promises that she would guard not only her behaviour, but her very thoughts within the limitation her friend should prescribe....
Chapter IV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

As soon as the first transports of despair were over, Miss Milner suffered herself to be once more in hope—she found there were no other means to support her life; and to her no small joy, her friend, Miss Woodley, was much less severe on...
Chapter IV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After Lord Elmwood had retired into his chamber, it was some time before he read the letter Sandford had given him. He first walked backwards and forwards in the room—he then began to take off some part of his dress, but did it slowly....
Chapter XIII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Sandford acted deliberately he always acted up to his duty; it was his duty to forgive Rushbrook and he did so—but he had declared he would never ‘be again in his company unless Lord Elmwood was present;’—and with all his forgiveness, he found...
Chapter X
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Lord Margrave, black as this incident in his story must make him to the reader, still nursed in his conscience a reserve of virtue, to keep him in peace with himself.—It was his design to plead, to argue, to implore, nay even to threaten,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

During the earlier months of this spring, Haworth was extremely unhealthy. The weather was damp, low fever was prevalent, and the household at the Parsonage suffered along with its neighbours. Charlotte says,* ‘I have felt it (the fever) in frequent thirst and...
Chapter XI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The reader will remember that Anne Brontë had been interred in the churchyard of the Old Church at Scarborough. Charlotte had left directions for a tombstone to be placed over her; but many a time during the solitude of the past winter, her sad,...
• Chapter 5 • Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Our morning’s exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes’s departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours’ sleep. It was a useless...
The Events of A Day and Night
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. November the twenty-eighth. Until ten, p.m.

Monday came, the day named for Mrs. Manston’s journey from London to her husband’s house; a day of singular and great events, influencing the present and future of nearly all the personages whose actions in a complex...
Chapter VI
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The thing that struck him most was the exceedingly casual way in which some craft loafed about the broad Atlantic. Fishing-boats, as Dan said, were naturally dependent on the courtesy and wisdom of their neighbours; but one expected better things of steamers. That was...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom ; the rapid Mississippi expands ; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one magnified wake of a seventy-four.* The sun comes out, a golden hussar, from Ms tent, flashing Ms helm...
CHAPTER XXV
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the act of retiring, the cosmopolitan was met by a passenger, who, with the bluff abord* of the West, thus addressed him, though a stranger.

‘ Queer ’coon,* your friend. Had a little scrimmage with him myself. Rather entertaining old ’coon,...
CHAPTER XXII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ The judge always began in these words : “ The backwoodsman’s hatred of the Indian has been a topic for some remark. In the earlier times of the frontier the passion was thought to be readily accounted for. But Indian rapine having...
CHAPTER XXX
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ “ Praise be unto the press,* not Faust’s, but Noah’s ; let us extol and magnify the press, the true press of Noah, from which breaketh the true morning. Praise be unto the press, not the black press but the...
CHAPTER XXXI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘In want of money ! ’ pushing back his chair as from a suddenly disclosed man-trap or crater.

‘ Yes,’ naively assented the cosmopolitan, ‘ and you are going to loan me fifty dollars. I could almost wish I was in need of more,...
CHAPTER XXXII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

While speaking or rather hissing those words, the boon companion underwent much such a change as one reads of in fairy-books. Out of old material sprang a new creature. Cadmus glided into the snake.*

The cosmopolitan rose, the traces of previous feeling vanished ;...
CHAPTER XXXVI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

As, not without some haste, the boon companion withdrew, a stranger* advanced, and touching the cosmopolitan, said : ‘ I think I heard you say you would see that man again. Be warned ; don’t you do so.’

He turned, surveying the speaker; a...
The United Idolaters
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

His name was Brownell and his reign was brief. He came from the Central Anglican Scholastic Agency, a soured, clever, reddish man picked up by the Head at the very last moment of the summer holidays in default of Macrea (of Macrea’s House) who...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was nearly six years after the departure of Mr David Faux for the West Indies, that the vacant shop in the market-place at Grimworth was understood to have been let to the stranger with a sallow complexion and a buff cravat, whose first...
5
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

As his urge to sequester himself from a loathsome age of shameful duplicity intensified, the need to see no longer pictures representing the human figure toiling away in Paris between four walls, or roaming the streets in quest of money, grew more overpowering.

After dissociating...
16
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

Des Esseintes shut himself up in his bedroom, turning a deaf ear to the banging of the hammers as the servants nailed down the crates they had packed; each blow struck him in the heart, sending an excruciating pang through his flesh. The sentence passed...
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After the kings of Great Britain had assumed the right of appointing the colonial governors*, the measures of the latter seldom met with the ready and general approbation which had been paid to those of their predecessors, under the original charters. The...
Young Goodman Brown
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Young Goodman* Brown came forth at sunset into the street of Salem village;* but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust...
The Birthmark
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In the latter part of the last century* there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical...
Chapter VII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Archibald
Floyd received the news of his daughter’s choice with evident pride and satisfaction. It seemed as if some heavy burden had been taken away, as if some cruel shadow had been lifted from the lives of father and daughter.

The banker took his family...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The early spring brought Lucy Floyd on a visit to her cousin, a wondering witness of the happiness that reigned at Mellish Park.

Poor Lucy had expected to find Aurora held as something better than the dogs, and a little higher than the horses, in...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Talbot
Bulstrode yielded at last to John’s repeated invitations, and consented to pass a couple of days at Mellish Park.

He despised and hated himself for the absurd concession. In what a pitiful farce had the tragedy ended! A visitor in the house of...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The second dinner-bell rang five minutes after the ‘Softy’ had left Aurora, and Mr John Mellish came out upon the lawn to look for his wife. He came whistling across the grass, and whisking the roses with his pocket-handkerchief in very gaiety of heart....
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

John went straight to his own apartment to look for his wife; but he found the guns put back in their usual places, and the room empty. Aurora’s maid, a smartly-dressed girl, came tripping out of the servants’ hall, where the rattling of knives...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Aurora found a civil railway official at the Doncaster station, who was ready to take a ticket for her, and find her a comfortable seat in an empty carriage; but before the train started, a couple of sturdy farmers took their seats upon the...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Talbot
Bulstrode went out early upon the quiet Sunday morning after Aurora’s arrival, and walked down to the Telegraph Company’s Office at Charing Cross, whence he despatched a message to Mr John Mellish. It was a very brief message, only telling Mr Mellish to...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Very soon after breakfast, upon that happy Sabbath of reunion and contentment, John Mellish drove Aurora to Felden Woods. It was necessary that Archibald Floyd should hear the story of the trainer’s death from the lips of his own children, before newspaper...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

John
Mellish and Talbot Bulstrode walked to and fro upon the lawn before the drawing-room windows on that afternoon on which the detective and his underling lost sight of Stephen Hargraves. It was a dreary time, this period of watching and waiting, of uncertainty...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

This personage wandered back to the divan and seated himself, on the other side, in view of the great canvas on which Paul Veronese has spread, to swarm and glow there for ever, the marriage-feast of Cana of Galilee.* Weary as he...
XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Valentin De
Bellegarde died tranquilly, just as the cold faint March dawn began to clear the grave faces of the little knot of friends gathered about his bedside. An hour later Newman left the inn and drove to Geneva. He was naturally unwilling to...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Newman returned to Paris the second day after his interview with Mrs Bread. The morrow he had spent at Poitiers, reading over and over again the signed warrant he had lodged in his pocket-book, persuading himself more and more that it had, as he...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Old Ballad*

We left Morton, along with three companions in captivity, travelling in the custody...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Flnlay*

We must now return to the fortress of Tillietudlem and its inhabitants. The morning, being the first after the battle of Loudon-hill, had dawned upon...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Henry V*

On the evening of this day, all the information which they could procure led them to expect, that the insurgent army would be with early dawn on their march against Tillietudlem. Lord Evandale’s...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College*

It is not by corporal wants and infirmities only that men of the...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Old Ballad*

When he entered the cottage, Morton perceived that the old hostess had spoken truth. The...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Palamon and Arate*

The indisposition of Edith confined...
Chapter 10
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

While moralizing thus, Fabrice was jumping down on to the highway that goes from Lombardy into Switzerland; at that spot it runs fully four or five feet below the level of the forest. If my man takes fright, he thought, he’ll gallop away and I’ll...
Chapter 15
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Two hours later the unfortunate Fabrice, wearing handcuffs and secured by a long chain to the actual sediola they had compelled him to get into, was on his way to the Parma fortress, escorted by eight constables. The latter had orders to take...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She certainly made up with Susie directly, however, for any allowance she might have had privately to extend to tepid appreciation; since the late and long talks of these two embraced not only everything offered and suggested by the hours they spent apart, but...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I say, you know, Kate—you did stay!’ had been Merton Densher’s punctual remark on their adventure after they had, as it were, got out of it; an observation which she not less promptly on her side, let him see that she...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

They came to it almost immediately; he was to wonder afterwards at the fewness of their steps. ‘She has turned her face to the wall.’

‘You mean she’s worse?’

The poor lady stood there as she had stopped; Densher had, in the instant flare of...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Kate slowly rose; it was, since she had lighted the candles and sat down, the first movement she had made. ‘Are you trying to fix it on me that I must have told him?’

She spoke not so much in resentment as in pale...
Chapter I The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

In the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain...
Chapter V Animadversions On Some Of The Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

The opinions speciously supported, in some modern publications on the female character and education, which have given the tone to most of the observations made, in a more cursory manner, on the sex, remain now to be examined.

Section I

I shall begin with Rousseau,...
Chapter X Parental Affection
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love; for we have not, like the French,1 two terms to distinguish the pursuit of a natural and reasonable desire, from the ignorant calculations of weakness. Parents often love their children in the most...
Book V, Chapter IV
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned. Whilst men in a savage state preserve...
The ‘Gloria Scott’
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘I have some papers here,’ said my friend, Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter’s night on either side of the fire, ‘which I really think, Watson, it would be worth your while to glance over. These are the documents in the extraordinary...
The Final Problem
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel,...
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

In the Army List they still stand as ‘The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Anspach’s Merthyr-Tydfilshire Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry, Regimental District 329A’, but the Army through all its barracks and canteens knows them now as the ‘Fore and Aft’. They may in time...
The Lost Legion
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

When the Indian Mutiny broke out, and a little time before the siege of Delhi, a regiment of Native Irregular Horse was stationed at Peshawur on the frontier of India. That regiment caught what John Lawrence* called at the time ‘the prevalent...
A Sahibs’ War
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Pass?* Pass? Pass? I have one pass already, allowing me to go by the rêl from Kroonstadt* to Eshtellenbosch, where the horses are, where I am to be paid off, and whence I return to India. I am a—trooper...