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Chapter XXII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their “regalia.” He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing and profanity as long as he remained a member. Now he found out a new thing—namely, that to promise...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

About noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come for their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was measurably so, also—but suddenly said—

“Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?”

Tom mentally...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Within a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal’s cave, and the ferry-boat, well filled with passengers, soon followed. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.

When the cave door was...
Conclusion
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man. When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly...
Chapter XII The Casket
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a garden—large, considering that it lay in the heart of a city, and to my recollection at this day it seems pleasant: but time, like distance, lends to certain scenes an influence so softening; and where...
Chapter XXII The Letter
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

When all was still in the house; when dinner was over and the noisy recreation-hour past; when darkness had set in, and the quiet lamp of study was lit in the refectory; when the externes were gone home, the clashing door and clamorous bell hushed...
Chapter XXIX Monsieur’s Fête
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I was up the next morning an hour before daybreak, and finished my guard, kneeling on the dormitory floor beside the centre stand, for the benefit of such expiring glimmer as the night-lamp afforded in its last watch.

All my materials—my whole stock of beads...
Chapter XXXI The Dryad
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The spring was advancing, and the weather had turned suddenly warm. This change of temperature brought with it for me, as probably for many others, temporary decrease of strength. Slight exertion at this time left me overcome with fatigue—sleepless nights entailed languid days.

One Sunday...
Chapter XL The Happy Pair
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The day succeeding this remarkable Midsummer night, proved no common day. I do not mean that it brought signs in heaven above, or portents on the earth beneath; nor do I allude to meteorological phenomena, to storm, flood, or whirlwind. On the contrary: the sun...
Chapter IV Miss Marchmont
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

On quitting Bretton, which I did a few weeks after Paulina’s departure—little thinking then I was never again to visit it: never more to tread its calm old streets—I betook myself home, having been absent six months. It will be conjectured that I was of...
Chapter VII Villette
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I awoke next morning with courage revived and spirits refreshed: physical debility no longer enervated my judgment; my mind felt prompt and clear.

Just as I finished dressing, a tap came to the door; I said, “Come in,” expecting the chambermaid, whereas a rough man...
Chapter X Dr. John
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Madame Beck was a most consistent character; forbearing with all the world, and tender to no part of it. Her own children drew her into no deviation from the even tenor of her stoic calm. She was solicitous about her family, vigilant for their interests,...
Chapter XV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Some time elapsed before I again gave a lesson in the first Class; the holiday of Whitsuntide occupied three days, and on the fourth it was the turn of the second Division to receive my instructions. As I made the transit of the carré,...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

After all I had profited but imperfectly by the opportunity I had so boldly achieved of speaking to Mdlle. Henri; it was my intention to ask her how she came to be possessed of two English baptismal names, Frances and Evans, in addition to...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

One fine, frosty Sunday in November, Frances and I took a long walk; we made the tour of the city by the Boulevards, and afterwards, Frances being a little tired, we sat down on one of those wayside seats placed under the trees, at...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I always considered my father—I speak of him in the past tense, because we are now separated for ever; because he is henceforth as dead to me as if the grave had closed over him—I always considered my father to be the proudest man I...
V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My sister Clara is four years younger than I am. In form of face, in complexion, and—except the eyes—in features, she bears a striking resemblance to my father. Her expression, however, must be very like what my mother’s was. Whenever I have looked at her...
VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I had just received my quarter’s allowance of pocket-money, and had gone into the city to cash the cheque at my father’s bankers.

The money paid, I debated for a moment how I should return homewards. First I thought of walking: then of taking a...
XI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The nearer I approached to our own door, the more reluctance I felt to pass the short interval between my first and second interview with Mr Sherwin, at home. When I entered the house, this reluctance increased to something almost like dread. I felt unwilling...
VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The address to which I was now proceeding, led me some distance away from Mr Sherwin’s place of abode, in the direction of the populous neighbourhood which lies on the western side of the Edgeware Road. The house of Margaret’s aunt was plainly enough indicated...
Book V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: An old Friend and a New Scheme

In declaring, positively, that the boy whom she had seen digging on the moor had followed her uncle and herself to the post-town of Porthgenna, Sarah had asserted the literal truth. Jacob had tracked them...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. From Norah Vanstone to Mr. Pendril

‘Westmoreland House, Kensington,

‘August 14th, 1846.

‘Dear
Mr. Pendril,—

‘The date of this letter will show you that the last of many hard partings is over. We have left Combe-Raven; we have said farewell to...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. Extract from the Advertising Columns of The Times:—

‘An
Unknown
Friend is requested to mention (by advertisement) an address at which a letter can reach him. The receipt of the information which he offers, will be acknowledged by a reward of...
Chapter Three
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author diverts the Emperor and his Nobility of both Sexes, in a very uncommon Manner. The Diversions of the Court of Lilliput described. The Author hath his Liberty granted him upon certain Conditions.

My gentleness and good Behaviour had gained so far...
Chapter Four
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Milendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. A Conversation between the Author and a principal Secretary, concerning the Affairs of that Empire: The Author’s Offers to serve the Emperor in his Wars.

The first Request I made after I...
Chapter Two
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter. The Author carried to a Market-Town, and then to the Metropolis. The Particulars of his Journey.

My mistress had a daughter of nine Years old, a Child of towardly Parts* for her Age, very dextrous...
Chapter Five
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author permitted to see the grand Academy of Lagado.* The Academy largely* described. The Arts wherein the Professors employ themselves.

This Academy is not an entire single Building, but a Continuation of several Houses* on both Sides of...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author relateth several Particulars of the Yahoos. The great Virtues of the Houyhnhnms. The Education and Exercise of their Youth. Their general Assembly.

A s I ought to have understood human Nature much better than I supposed it possible for my Master to...
Chapter Eleven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s dangerous Voyage. He arrives at New-Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an Arrow by one of the Natives. Is seized and carried by Force into a Portugueze Ship. The great Civilities of the Captain. The Author arrives...

I ...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the shop, of an evening, Laurent was utterly happy. He generally came back from the office with Camille. Madame Raquin had taken a maternal liking to him; she knew he was penniless, that he did not eat well and slept in an attic,...
Germinal
Authors: Zola Mile
Published: December 2020

PART I

CHAPTER I

Crossing the open plain, wading through the thick, dark ink of a starless night, a solitary figure followed the highway from Marchiennes to Montsou,* which cut its paved pathway straight through ten kilometres of...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The four hewers had just spread themselves out, each lying at a different height, so as to cover the whole expanse of the coalface. They were separated by boards, hung on hooks, which caught the coal as they hewed it away; they each worked...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At Rasseneur’s, Étienne had eaten his soup and gone upstairs to the narrow attic bedroom, overlooking Le Voreux, which was going to be his home. He had fallen on to his bed fully clothed, numb with fatigue. He had not slept more than four...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was the last Sunday in July, the day of the Montsou fair, the Ducasse.* By Saturday evening, the good village housewives had sluiced their living-rooms down with floods of water, throwing whole bucketfuls over the flags and down the walls; and...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Two weeks had gone by; and, on the Monday of the third week, the attendance records received by the management indicated a further decrease in the number of men reporting for work. That morning they had expected more people to go back...
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Jeanlin was better now, and able to walk again; but his bones were so badly set that he limped with both legs, and he was quite a sight to behold, waddling like a duck, but still scuttling around as fast as ever, and still...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the early morning, since before daylight, a tremor had been running through the villages, a tremor which had now become a rumbling which traversed the highways and the whole countryside. But they couldn’t depart when they had planned, for they had heard the...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On Sunday Étienne escaped from the village as soon as night had fallen. A very bright, star-spangled sky lit the earth with a dusky blue glow. He went down towards the canal and walked slowly, following the bank up towards Marchiennes. It was his...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At four o’clock they started to go down. Dansaert, who was presiding in person at the controller’s desk in the lamp depot, registered the name of each workman who presented himself and had him given a lamp. He accepted everyone, making no comment, keeping...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Denise had come on foot from the Gare Saint-Lazare. She and her two brothers had arrived on a train from Cherbourg and had spent the night on the hard bench of a third-class carriage. She was holding Pépé by the hand, and Jean was...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, at half-past seven, Denise was standing outside the Ladies’ Paradise. She wanted to call there before taking Jean to his employer, who lived a long way off, at the top of the Faubourg du Temple. But being used to early rising,...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On that particular Monday, 10 October, a bright, victorious sun pierced through the thick grey clouds which, for a week, had cast a gloom over Paris. Throughout the night there had still been some drizzle, a fine mist that made the streets dirty with...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For a moment Denise stood dazed on the pavement in the sunshine, which was still scorching at five o’clock. The July heat was warming the gutters, and Paris was bathed in the chalky summer light with its blinding reflections. The catastrophe had been so...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

THAT day Bouthemont was the first to arrive at Madame Desforges’s house at four o’clock for tea. She was still alone, in her large Louis XVI drawing-room, the brass and brocades of which shone with a bright gaiety; when he entered she stood up with...
Chapter 12
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was three o’clock before they went to bed that morning in their icy room off the studio swept by the sharp November wind. Still breathless from hurrying, Christine had slipped hastily under the blankets so that Claude should not know she...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Three months later, on one of those dismal spring mornings, which in Paris recall the greyness and damp of winter, Aristide Saccard got out of a cab in the Place du Château d’Eau* and turned with four other gentlemen into the large...
Letter V Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

March 18.

Dear Madam,

This letter will be delivered to you by my child,—the child of my adoption,—my affection! Unblest with one natural friend, she merits a thousand. I send her to you, innocent as an angel, and artless as purity itself: and I...
Letter XII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Tuesday, April 5.

There is to be no end to the troubles of last night. I have, this moment, between persuasion and laughter, gathered from Maria the most curious dialogue that ever I heard. You will, at first, be startled at my vanity; but,...
Letter XIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Tuesday, April 12.

My dear Sir,

We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather, so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go, you will be frightened to hear it,—till past eleven o’clock:...
Letter XXII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Monday Morning, April 18.

Mrs.
Mirvan has just communicated to me an anecdote concerning Lord Orville, which has much surprised, half pleased, and half pained me.

While they were sitting together during the Opera, he told her that he had been greatly concerned...
Letter XXIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Queen-Ann-Street, Tuesday, April 19.

There is something to me half melancholy in writing an account of our last adventures in London; however, as this day is merely appropriated to packing, and preparations for our journey, and as I shall shortly have no more adventures...
Letter XXIV Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, April 22.

How much do I rejoice that I can again address my letters to Howard Grove! My Evelina would have grieved, had she known the anxiety of my mind, during her residence in the great world. My apprehensions have been inexpressibly alarming;...
Letter XXVIII Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, May 2.

Your letter, Madam, has opened a source of anxiety to which I look forward with dread, and which to see closed, I scarcely dare expect. I am unwilling to oppose my opinion to that of your Ladyship, nor, indeed, can...
Letter III Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, May 15th.

This insatiable Captain, if left to himself, would not, I believe, rest, till he had tormented Madame Duval into a fever. He seems to have no delight but in terrifying or provoking her, and all his thoughts apparently turn upon...
Letter XVII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The last three evenings have passed tolerably quiet, for the Vauxhall adventures had given Madame Duval a surfeit of public places: home, however, soon growing tiresome, she determined to-night, she said, to relieve her ennui, by some amusement; and it was therefore...
Letter IV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Sept. 20th.

Here I am, my dear Sir, under the same roof, and inmate of the same house, as Lord Orville! Indeed, if this were not the case, my situation would be very disagreeable, as you will easily believe, when I tell you...
Letter XVIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Oct. 9.

How agitated, my dear Sir, is the present life of your Evelina! every day seems important, and one event only a prelude to another.

Mrs. Selwyn, upon her return this morning from the Hotwell, entering my room very abruptly, said, ‘Oh my dear,...
Letter XX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Oct. 12.

This morning, early, I received the following letter from Sir Clement Willoughby.
A Case of Identity
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

‘MY dear fellow,’ said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, ‘life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.* We would not dare to conceive the things which...
The Noble Bachelor
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

The Lord St Simon* marriage, and its curious termination, have long since ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips...
Chapter I
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here Emulation most effectually operates...
Chapter II
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr. Joseph Andrews, the Hero of our ensuing History, was esteemed to be the only Son of Gaffer and Gammer Andrews, and Brother to the illustrious Pamela, whose Virtue is at present so famous. As to his Ancestors,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

No sooner was young Andrews arrived at London, than he began to scrape an Acquaintance with his party-colour’d Brethren, who endeavour’d to make him despise his former Course of Life. His Hair was cut after the newest Fashion, and became...
Chapter I
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

There are certain Mysteries or Secrets in all Trades from the highest to the lowest, from that of Prime Ministring to this of Authoring, which are seldom discovered, unless to Members of the same Calling. Among those used by us...
Chapter III
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

He had just entered the House, had called for his Pint and seated himself, when two Horsemen came to the Door, and fastening their Horses to the Rails, alighted. They said there was a violent Shower of Rain coming on, which they intended to...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our Travellers had walked about two Miles from that Inn, which they had more reason to have mistaken for a Castle, than Don Quixote ever had any of those in which he sojourned; seeing they had met with such Difficulty in escaping...
Chapter V
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our Travellers having well refreshed themselves at the Gentleman’s House, Joseph and Fanny with Sleep, and Mr. Abraham Adams with Ale and Tobacco, renewed their Journey with great Alacrity; and, pursuing the Road in which they were directed,...
An odd accident which befell Mr Allworthy at his return home. The decent behaviour of Mrs Deborah Wilkins, with some proper animadversions on bastards
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

I have told my reader, in the preceding chapter, that Mr Allworthy inherited a large fortune; that he had a good heart, and no family. Hence, doubtless, it will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man, owed no one a...
The reader’s neck brought into danger by a description, his escape, and the great condescension of Miss Bridget Allworthy
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Gothic style of building could produce nothing nobler than Mr Allworthy’s house. There was an air of grandeur in it that struck you with awe, and rivalled the beauties of the best Grecian architecture; and it was as commodious within as venerable without....

It...
Containing a few common matters, with a very uncommon observation upon them
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When her master was departed, Mrs Deborah stood silent, expecting her cue from Miss Bridget; for as to what had passed before her master, the prudent housekeeper by no means relied upon it, as she had often known the sentiments of the lady in...
Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love; descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It hath been observed by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives. No particular season is, as I remember, assigned for this; but the age at which Miss Bridget was arrived...
A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The captain was made large amends for the unpleasant minutes which he passed in the conversation of his wife (and which were as few as he could contrive to make them) by the pleasant meditations he enjoyed when alone.

These meditations were entirely employed on...
A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt , in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as physicians, &c, and an epitaph in the true style
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
All worthy, his sister, and another lady, were assembled at the accustomed hour in the supper-room, where, having waited a considerable time longer than usual, Mr Allworthy first declared he began to grow uneasy at the captain’s stay (for he was
The character of Mr Square the philosopher, and of Mr Thwackum the divine; with a dispute concerning——
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The name of this gentleman, who had then resided some time at Mr Allworthy’s house, was Mr Square. His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education. He was deeply read in the ancients,...
Containing a better reason still for the before-mentioned opinions
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is to be known, then, that those two learned personages, who have lately made a considerable figure on the theatre of this history, had, from their first arrival at Mr Allworthy’s house, taken so great an affection, the one to his virtue, the...
In which the author himself makes his appearance on the stage
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though Mr Allworthy was not of himself hasty to see things in a disadvantageous light, and was a stranger to the public voice, which seldom reaches to a brother or a husband, though it rings in the ears of all the neighbourhood, yet was...
In which Master Blifil and Jones appear in different lights
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Master
Blifil fell very short of his companion in the amiable quality of mercy; but he as greatly exceeded him in one of a much higher kind, namely, in justice, in which he followed both the precepts and example of Thwackum and Square; for...
A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican style, and which none but the classical reader can taste
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Western had an estate in this parish; and as his house stood at little greater distance from this church than from his own, he very often came to divine service here; and both he and the charming Sophia happened to be present at...
The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Tom
Jones had ridden one of Mr Western’s horses that morning in the chase; so that having no horse of his own in the squire’s stable, he was obliged to go home on foot. This he did so expeditiously that he ran upwards of...
Containing much clearer matters; but which flowed from the same fountain with those in the preceding chapter
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader will be pleased, I believe, to return with me to Sophia. She passed the night, after we saw her last, in no very agreeable manner. Sleep befriended her but little, and dreams less. In the morning, when Mrs Honour, her maid, attended...
A very long chapter, containing a very great incident
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

But though this victorious deity easily expelled his avowed enemies from the heart of Jones, he found it more difficult to supplant the garrison which he himself had placed there. To lay aside all allegory, the concern for what must become of poor Molly...
Of love
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In our last book we have been obliged to deal pretty much with the passion of love, and in our succeeding book shall be forced to handle this subject still more largely. It may not, therefore, in this place be improper to apply ourselves...
Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Western having obtained that promise from her niece which we have seen in the last chapter, withdrew; and presently after arrived Mrs Honour. She was at work in a neighbouring apartment, and had been summoned to the key-hole by some vociferation in the...
A short chapter; but which contains sufficient matter to affect the good-natured reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was Mr Allworthy’s custom never to punish anyone, not even to turn away a servant, in a passion. He resolved, therefore, to delay passing sentence on Jones till the afternoon.

The poor young man attended at dinner, as usual; but his heart was too...
A comparison between the world and the stage
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The world hath been often compared to the theatre; and many-grave writers, as well as the poets, have considered human life as a great drama, resembling, in almost every particular, those scenical representations which Thespis is first reported to have invented, and which have...
In which the foregoing story is farther continued
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘My fellow collegiate had now entered me in a new scene of life. I soon became acquainted with the whole fraternity of sharpers, and was let into their secrets. I mean, into the knowledge of those gross cheats which are proper to impose...
Containing instructions very necessary to be perused by modern critics
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Reader, it is impossible we should know what sort of person thou wilt be; for, perhaps, thou may’st be as learned in human nature as Shakespeare himself was, and, perhaps, thou may’st be no wiser than some of his editors. Now, lest this latter...
A dialogue between the landlady and Susan the chambermaid, proper to be read by all innkeepers and their servants; with the arrival and affable behaviour of a beautiful young lady; which may teach persons of condition how they may acquire the love of the whole world
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The landlady, remembering that Susan had been the only person out of bed when the door was burst open, resorted presently to her to inquire into the first occasion of the disturbance, as well as who the strange gentleman was, and when and how...
The escape of Sophia
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is now time to look after Sophia, whom the reader, if he loves her half so well as I do, will rejoice to find escaped from the clutches of her passionate father, and from those of her dispassionate lover.

Twelve times did the iron...
From which it may be inferred that the best things are liable to be misunderstood and misinterpreted
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

A violent uproar now arose in the entry, where my landlady was well cuffing her maid both with her fist and tongue. She had, indeed, missed the wench from her employment, and, after a little search, had found her on the puppet-show stage in...
A project of Mrs Fitzpatrick, and her visit to Lady Bellaston
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Mrs Fitzpatrick retired to rest, her thoughts were entirely taken up by her cousin Sophia and Mr Jones. She was, indeed, a little offended with the former, for the disingenuity which she now discovered. In which meditation she had not long exercised her...
What arrived while the company were at breakfast, with some hints concerning the government of daughters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our company brought together in the morning the same good inclinations towards each other, with which they had separated the evening before; but poor Jones was extreme disconsolate; for he had just received information from Partridge that Mrs Fitzpatrick had left her lodging, and...
A short account of the history of Mrs Miller
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones this day ate a pretty good dinner for a sick man, that is to say, the larger half of a shoulder of mutton. In the afternoon, he received an invitation from Mrs Miller to drink tea; for that good woman, having learned, either...
Short and sweet
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding all the obligations she had received from Jones, Mrs Miller could not forbear in the morning some gentle remonstrances for the hurricane which had happened the preceding night in his chamber. These were, however, so gentle and so friendly, professing, and...
Containing love-letters of several sorts
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones, at his return home, found the following letters lying on his table, which he luckily opened in the order they were sent.

LETTER 1

‘Surely I am under some strange infatuation; I cannot keep my resolutions a moment, however strongly made or...
A discovery made by Partridge
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

While Jones was exulting in the consciousness of his integrity, Partridge came capering into the room, as was his custom when he brought, or fancied he brought, any good tidings. He had been dispatched that morning by his master, with orders to endeavour, by...
In which the history is obliged to look back
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is almost impossible for the best parent to observe an exact impartiality to his children, even though no superior merit should bias his affection; but sure a parent can hardly be blamed when that superiority determines his preference.

As I regard all the personages...
In which Mrs Miller pays a visit to Sophia
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Access to the young lady was by no means difficult; for as she lived now on a perfect friendly footing with her aunt, she was at full liberty to receive what visitants she pleased.

Sophia was dressing when she was acquainted that there was...
The history draws nearer to a conclusion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Mr Western was departed, Jones began to inform Mr Allworthy and Mrs Miller that his liberty had been procured by two noble lords, who, together with two surgeons and a friend of Mr Nightingale’s, had attended the magistrate by whom he had been...
Chapter IX Dressing for Tea
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Let China’s earth, enrich’d with colour’d stains, Pencil’d with gold, and streak’d with azure veins, The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf, Or Mocho’s sunburnt berry glad receive.’

The day after this meeting with Higgins and his daughter, Mr....
Chapter XX Men and Gentlemen
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Old and young, boy, let ‘em all eat, I have it; Let ‘em have ten tire of teeth a-piece, I care not.’

Margaret went home so painfully occupied with what she had heard and seen that she...
Chapter XXI The Dark Night
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘On earth is known to none The smile that is not sister to a tear.’

Margaret and her father walked home. The night was fine, the streets clean, and with her pretty white silk, like Leezie Lindsay’s* gown o’...
Chapter XX Not all a Dream
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Where are the sounds that swam along The buoyant air when I was young? The last vibration now is o’er, And they who listened are no more; Ah! let me close my eyes and dream.’

The idea of Helstone...
Chapter XXIII ‘ne ‘er to be Found Again’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘My own, my father’s friend!     I cannot part with thee! I ne’er have shown, thou ne’er hast known,     How dear thou art to me.’

The elements of the dinner-parties which Mrs. Lennox gave, were these; her friends contributed the beauty, Captain Lennox...
Chapter I Description of Farmer Oak: an incident
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of...
Chapter VII Recognition: a timid girl
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Bathsheba withdrew into the shade. She scarcely knew whether most to be amused at the singularity of the meeting or to be concerned at its awkwardness. There was room for a little pity, also for a very little exultation; the former at his position,...
Chapter XXIV The same night: the fir plantation
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Among the multifarious duties which Bathsheba had voluntarily imposed upon herself by dispensing with the services of a bailiff, was the particular one of looking round the homestead before going to bed, to see that all was right and safe for the night. Gabriel...
Chapter XXVIII The hollow amid the ferns
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The hill opposite Bathsheba’s dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of heath-land dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.

At eight o’clock this...
Chapter XLIII Fanny’s revenge
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“Do you want me any longer, ma’am?” enquired Liddy, at a later hour the same evening, standing by the door with a chamber candlestick in her hand, and addressing Bathsheba, who sat cheerless and alone in the large parlour beside the first fire of the...
I.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Slender as was Jude Fawley’s frame he bore the two brimming house-buckets of water to the cottage without resting. Over the door was a little rectangular piece of blue board, on which was painted in yellow letters, ‘Drusilla Fawley, Baker.’ Within the little lead...
I.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Not a soul was visible on the hedgeless highway, or on either side of it, and the white road seemed to ascend and diminish till it joined the sky. At the very top it was crossed at right angles by a green ‘ridgeway’—the Icknield...
I.–viii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

One week’s end Jude was as usual walking out to his aunt’s at Mary-green from his lodgings in Alfredston, a walk which now had large attractions for him quite other than his desire to see his aged and morose relative. He diverged to the...
II.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Jude’s old and embittered aunt lay unwell at Marygreen, and on the following Sunday he went to see her—a visit which was the result of a victorious struggle against his inclination to turn aside to the village of Lumsdon and obtain a miserable interview...
II.–vii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The stroke of scorn relieved his mind, and the next morning he laughed at his self-conceit. But the laugh was not a healthy one. He re-read the letter from the Master; and the wisdom in its lines which had at first exasperated him, chilled...
III.–ii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

‘To-morrow is our grand day, you know. Where shall we go?’

‘I have leave from three till nine. Wherever we can get to and come back from in that time. Not ruins, Jude—I don’t care for them.’

‘Well—Wardour Castle. And then we can do...
III.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Jude’s reverie was interrupted by the creak of footsteps ascending the stairs.

He whisked Sue’s clothing from the chair where it was drying, thrust it under the bed, and sat down to his book. Somebody knocked and opened the door immediately. It was the landlady....
III.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile a middle-aged man was dreaming a dream of great beauty concerning the writer of the above letter. He was Richard Phillotson, who had recently removed from the mixed village school at Lumsdon near Christminster, to undertake a large boys’ school in his native...
IV.–i.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Shaston,* the ancient British Palladour,

‘From whose foundation first such strange reports arise,’

(as Drayton sang it), was, and is, in itself the city of a dream. Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of...
IV.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Phillotson was sitting up late, as was often his custom, trying to get together the materials for his long-neglected hobby of Roman antiquities. For the first time since reviving the subject he felt a return of his old interest in it. He forgot time...
IV.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Four-and-twenty hours before this time Sue had written the following note to Jude:

‘It is as I told you; and I am leaving to-morrow evening. Richard and I thought it could be done with less obtrusiveness after dark. I feel rather frightened, and therefore ask...
V.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The unnoticed lives that the pair had hitherto led began, from the day of the suspended wedding onwards, to be observed and discussed by other persons than Arabella. The society of Spring Street and the neighbourhood generally did not understand, and probably could not...
VI.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next afternoon the familiar Christminster fog still hung over all things. Sue’s slim shape was only just discernible going towards the station.

Jude had no heart to go to his work that day. Neither could he go anywhere in the direction by which she...
VI.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The place was the door of Jude’s lodging in the outskirts of Christminster—far from the precincts of St. Silas’ where he had formerly lived, which saddened him to sickness. The rain was coming down. A woman in shabby black stood on the doorstep talking...
VI.–ix.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On the platform stood Arabella. She looked him up and down.

‘You’ve been to see her?’ she asked.

‘I have,’ said Jude, literally tottering with cold and lassitude.

‘Well, now you’d best march along home.’

The water ran out of him as he went, and...
VI.–xi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The last pages to which the chronicler of these lives would ask the reader’s attention are concerned with the scene in and out of Jude’s bedroom when leafy summer came round again.

His face was now so thin that his old friends would hardly have...
V
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A few score yards brought them to the spot, where the town band was now shaking the window-panes with the strains of “The Roast Beef of Old England.”*

The building before whose doors they had pitched their music-stands was the chief hotel in Casterbridge,...
VII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Elizabeth-Jane and her mother had arrived some twenty minutes earlier. Outside the house they had stood and considered whether even this homely place, though recommended as moderate, might not be too serious in its prices for their light pockets. Finally however they...
XIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A Martinmas summer* of Mrs. Henchard’s life set in with her entry into her husband’s large house and respectable social orbit, and it was as bright as such summers well can be. Lest she should pine for deeper affection than he...
XVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On this account Henchard’s manner towards Farfrae insensibly became more reserved. He was courteous—too courteous—and Farfrae was quite surprised at the good-breeding which now for the first time showed itself among the qualities of a man he had hitherto thought undisciplined, if warm and...
XXV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next phase of the supersession of Henchard in Lucetta’s heart was an experiment in calling on her, performed by Farfrae with some apparent trepidation. Conventionally speaking he conversed with both Miss Templeman and her companion; but in fact it was rather that Elizabeth...
XXXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Two bridges stood near the lower part of Casterbridge town.

The first, of weather-stained brick, was immediately at the end of High Street, where a diverging branch from that thoroughfare ran round to the low-lying Durnover lanes; so that the precincts of the bridge formed...
XXXIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Next morning, accordingly, she rose at five o’clock, and went into the street. It was not yet light; a dense fog prevailed, and the town was as silent as it was dark, except that from the rectangular avenues which framed in the borough there...
XXXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Such was the state of things when the current affairs of Casterbridge were interrupted by an event of such magnitude that its influence reached to the lowest social stratum there, stirring the depths of its society simultaneously with the preparations for the skimmington. It...
XXXVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The proceedings had been brief—too brief—to Lucetta, whom an intoxicating Weltlust* had fairly mastered; but they had brought her a great triumph nevertheless. The shake of the royal hand still lingered in her fingers; and that chit-chat she had overheard, that...
Chapter VI The Figure against the Sky
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When the whole Egdon conclave had left the site of the bonfire to its accustomed loneliness a closely-wrapped female figure approached the barrow from that quarter of the heath in which the little fire lay. Had the reddleman been watching he might have recognised...
Chapter XI The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The reddleman had left Eustacia’s presence with desponding views on Thomasin’s future happiness; but he was awakened to the fact that one other channel remained untried by seeing, as he followed the way to his van, the form of Mrs Yeobright slowly walking towards...
Chapter VIII Firmness is discovered in a Gentle Heart
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On that evening the interior of Blooms-End, though cosy and comfortable, had been rather silent. Clym Yeobright was not at home. Since the Christmas party he had gone on a few days’ visit to a friend about ten miles off.

The shadowy form seen by...
Chapter III The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The afternoon was fine, and Yeobright walked on the heath for an hour with his mother. When they reached the lofty ridge which divided the valley of Blooms-End from the valley of Shadwater, they stood still and looked around. The Quiet Woman inn was...
Chapter III She goes out to battle against Depression
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A few days later, before the month of August had expired, Eustacia and Yeobright sat together at their early dinner.

Eustacia’s manner had become of late almost apathetic. There was a forlorn look about her beautiful eyes which, whether she deserved it or not, would...
Chapter IV The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Eustacia’s journey was at first as vague in direction as that of thistledown in the wind. She did not know what to do. She wished it had been night instead of morning that she might at least have borne her misery without the possibility...
Chapter VIII Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

While the effigy of Eustacia was melting to nothing, and the fair woman herself was standing on Blackbarrow, her soul in an abyss of desolation seldom plumbed by one so young, Yeobright sat lonely at Blooms-End. He had fulfilled his word to Thomasin by...
IX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend, made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square. The...
XV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“By experience,” says Roger Ascham, “we find out a short way by a long wandering.”* Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? Tess Durbeyfield’s experience was of this...
XXXI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Tess wrote a most touching and urgent letter to her mother the very next day; and by the end of the week a response to her communication arrived, in Joan Durbeyfield’s wandering, last-century hand.

Dear Tess,

J write these few lines hoping they will find...
XXXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Midnight came and passed silently, for there was nothing to announce it in the Valley of the Froom.

Not long after one o’clock there was a slight creak in the darkened farm-house once the mansion of the d’Urbervilles. Tess, who used the upper chamber, heard...
XL
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At breakfast Brazil was the topic, and all endeavoured to take a hopeful view of Clare’s proposed experiment with that country’s soil, notwithstanding the discouraging reports of some farm-labourers who had emigrated thither and returned home within the twelve months. After breakfast Clare went...
XLI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

From the foregoing events of the winter-time let us press on to an October day, more than eight months subsequent to the parting of Clare and Tess. We discover the latter in changed conditions: instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others...