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The Presentation
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When Albert found himself alone with Monte Cristo, ‘M. le Comte,’ said he, ‘allow me to commence my duties by showing you a specimen of a bachelor’s apartment. You, who are accustomed to the palaces of Italy, can amuse yourself by calculating in how...
The Rain of Blood
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘As the jeweller returned to the apartment, he cast around him a cautious glance—but there was nothing to arouse his suspicion. Caderousse’s hands still grasped his gold and bank-notes, and La Carconte called up her sweetest smiles while welcoming the reappearance of their...
A Talk about Stocks
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Some days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs Elysées, which had already assumed that palace-like appearance which the count’s princely fortune enabled him to give even to his most temporary residences. He...
Andrea Cavalcanti
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Count of Monte Cristo entered the adjoining room which Baptistin had designated as the blue drawing—room, and found there a young man of graceful demeanour and elegant appearance who had arrived in a fiacre about half an hour previously. Baptistin had...
A Summer Ball
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The same day, during the interview of Madame Danglars with the procureur, a travelling carriage entered the Rue du Helder, passed through the gateway of No. 27, and stopped in the courtyard. In a moment the door was opened, and Madame de Morcerf alighted,...
Madame de Saint-Méran
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

A gloomy scene had indeed just occurred at the house of De Villefort. After the ladies had departed for the ball, to which all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them, the procureur du roi had,...
The Villefort Family Vault
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Two days later, a considerable crowd gathered, towards ten o’clock in the morning, round the door of M. de Villefort’s house, and a long file of mourning-coaches and private carriages extended along the Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the Rue de la Pépinière. Among them was...
Haydée
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Scarcely had the count’s horses cleared the angle of the boulevard, than Albert, turning towards the count, burst into a loud fit of laughter—much too loud, in fact, not to give the idea of its being rather forced and unnatural.

‘Well,’ said he, ‘how have...
The Accusation
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. D ’Avrigny soon restored to consciousness the magistrate who had looked like a second corpse in that chamber of death.

‘Oh, death is in my house!’ cried Villefort.

‘Say, rather, crime!’ replied the doctor.

‘M. d’Avrigny,’ cried Villefort, ‘I cannot tell you what...
The Trial
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At eight o’clock in the morning Albert was at Beauchamp’s door. The valet-de-chambre had received orders to show him into his master’s room, who was just then bathing.

‘Here I am,’ said Albert.

‘Well, my poor friend,’ replied Beauchamp, ‘I expected you.’

‘I need not...
Chapter X
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew. In pursuance of this luminous conception I mentioned to Biddy...
Chapter XV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s room, my education under that preposterous female terminated. Not, however, until Biddy had imparted to me everything she knew, from the little catalogue of prices, to a comic song* she had once...
Chapter IX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first flow of my repentance it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe’s. But, when I had secured my box-place* by to-morrow’s coach and had...
Chapter XV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As I had grown accustomed to my expectations, I had insensibly begun to notice their effect upon myself and those around me. Their influence on my own character, I disguised from my recognition as much as possible, but I knew very well...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

From
Little Britain, I went, with my cheque in my pocket, to Miss Skiffins’s brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins’s brother, the accountant, going straight to Clarriker’s and bringing Clarriker to me, I had the great satisfaction of concluding that arrangement. It was the...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After the stun of the blow came the realisation of the consequences. Susan would sit for hours trying patiently to recall and piece together fragments of recollection and consciousness in her brother's mind. She would let him go and pursue some senseless...
The Manchester Marriage
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr and Mrs Openshaw came from Manchester to settle in London. He had been, what is called in Lancashire, a Salesman for a large manufacturing firm, who were extending their business, and opening a warehouse in the city; where Mr Openshaw was now to...
Part I
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room...
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Whatever degree of small merit, the act of benignity in favour of the midwife, might justly claim, or in whom that claim truly rested,—at first sight seems not very material to this history; certain however it was, that the gentlewoman, the parson's wife, did...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

———I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour and a half's silence, to my uncle Toby,—— who you must know, was sitting on the opposite side of the fire,...
Chapter I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur,...

I...
Chapter IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Great wits jump: for the moment Dr. Slop cast his eyes upon his bag (which he had not done till the dispute with my uncle Toby about midwifery put him in mind of it)—the very same thought occurred.—'Tis God's mercy,...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

O Slawkenbergius! thou faithful analyzer of my Disgrázias,1 thou sad foreteller of so many of the whips and short turns, which in one stage or other of my life have come slap upon me from the shortness of my nose,...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

'Tis a pity, cried my father one winter's night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius,—'tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother's thread-paper into the book for a mark, as he spoke that truth, brother Toby, should shut...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY father lay stretched across the bed as still as if the hand of death had pushed him down, for a full hour and a half, before he began to play upon the floor with the toe of that foot which hung over the bed-side;...
CHAPTER IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHAT a chapter of chances, said my father, turning himself about upon the first landing, as he and my uncle Toby were going down stairs what a long chapter of chances do the events of this world lay open to us! Take pen...
CHAPTER XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—AND how does your mistress? cried my father, taking the same step over again from the landing, and calling to Susannah, whom he saw passing by the foot of the stairs with a huge pin-cushion in her hand—how does your mistress? As well,...
CHAPTER XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—BUT can the thing be undone, Yorick? said my father—for in my opinion, continued he, it cannot. I am a vile canonist, replied Yorick—but of all evils, holding suspense to be the most tormenting, we shall at least know the worst...
CHAPTER XXXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THOUGH my father was hugely tickled with the subtleties of these learned discourses—'twas still but like the anointing of a broken bone—The moment he got home, the weight of his afflictions returned upon him but so much the heavier, as is ever the case when...
Chapter IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

And lastly—for of all the choice anecdotes which history can produce of this matter, continued my father,—this, like the gilded dome which covers in the fabrick—crowns all.—

Tis of Cornelius Gallus,1 the praetor—which I dare say, brother Toby, you have...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

KING William, said my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Yorick, was so terribly provoked at count Solmes for disobeying his orders, that he would not suffer him to come into his presence for many months after.——I fear,...
CHAPTER XXXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE first thirty pages, said my father, turning over the leaves,— are a little dry; and as they are not closely connected with the subject, for the present we'll pass them by: 'tis a prefatory introduction, continued my father, or an introductory preface (for I...
CHAPTER XLII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——FIVE years with a bib under his chin;

Four years in travelling from Christ-cross-row to Malachi;1

A year and a half in learning to write his own name;

Seven long years and more τυπτω-ing it,2 at Greek and Latin;

Four years at ...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——We'll not stop two moments, my dear Sir,—only, as we have got thro' these five volumes, (do, Sir, sit down upon a set——they are better than nothing) let us just look back upon the country we have pass'd through.——

——What a wilderness has it...
CHAPTER XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The ancient Goths of Germany, who (the learned Cluverius1 is positive) were first seated in the country between the Vistula and the Oder, and who afterwards incorporated the Herculi, the ...
CHAPTER XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY uncle Toby had scarce turned the corner of his yew hedge, which separated his kitchen garden from his bowling green, when he perceived the corporal had began the attack without him.——

Let me stop and give you a picture of the corporal's apparatus; and...
CHAPTER XXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The corporal, who the night before had resolved in his mind, to supply the grand desideratum, of keeping up something like an incessant firing upon the enemy during the heat of the attack,— had no further idea in his fancy at that...
CHAPTER VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in—woe be to truth! and woe be to the vehicle and its tackling (let 'em be made of what stuff you will) upon which he...
CHAPTER XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In the whole catalogue of those whiffling vexations which come puffing across a man's canvass, there is not one of a more teasing and tormenting nature, than this particular one which I am going to describe and for which, (unless you travel with an...
CHAPTER XL
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As I knew the geography of the Tomb of the Lovers, as well as if I had lived twenty years in Lyons, namely, that it was upon the turning of my right hand, just without the gate, leading to the Fauxbourg de Vaise——I dispatch'd François...
Chapter IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

"IT is with Love as with Cuckoldom" the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter: this comes, as all the world knows, from having half a dozen words for...
Chapter IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I DO not speak it with regard to the coarseness or cleanness of them—or the strength of their gussets——but pray do not night-shifts differ from day-shifts as much in this particular, as in any thing else in the world; That they so far exceed the...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——And so to make sure of both systems, Mrs. Wadman predetermined to light my uncle Toby neither at this end or that; but like a prodigal's candle, to light him, if possible, at both ends at once.

Now, through all the lumber rooms of...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As soon as the corporal had finished the story of his amour—or rather my uncle Toby for him—Mrs. Wadman silently sallied forth from her arbour, replaced the pin in her mob, pass'd the wicker gate, and advanced slowly towards my uncle Toby's sentry-box: the disposition...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY father had such a skirmishing, cutting kind of a slashing way with him in his disputations, thrusting and ripping, and giving every one a stroke to remember him by in his turn—that if there were twenty people in company—in less than half an hour...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Whilst my father was writing his letter of instructions, my uncle Toby and the corporal were busy in preparing every thing for the attack. As the turning of the thin scarlet breeches was laid aside (at least for the present) there was nothing which should...
CHAPTER XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

UPON looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt...
CHAPTER XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As Mrs. Bridget's finger and thumb were upon the latch, the Corporal did not knock as oft as perchance your honour's taylor——I might have taken my example something nearer home; for I owe mine, some five and twenty pounds at least, and wonder at the...
CHAPTER XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As there are fifty different ends (counting all ends in——as well civil as religious) for which a woman takes a husband, she first sets about and carefully weighs, then separates and distinguishes in her mind, which of all that number of ends, is hers: then...
CHAPTER XXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——AND the story too—if you please: for though I have all along been hastening towards this part of it, with so much earnest desire, as well knowing it to be the choicest morsel of what I had to offer to the world, yet now that...
CHAPTER XXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IT is natural for a perfect stranger who is going from London to Edinburgh, to enquire before he sets out, how many miles to York; which is about the half way——nor does any body wonder, if he goes on and asks about the Corporation, &c....
CHAPTER XXX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY uncle Toby and the Corporal had gone on separately with their operations the greatest part of the campaign, and as effectually cut off from all communication of what either the one or the other had been doing, as if they had been separated from...
The Selfish Giant
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.

It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees...
The Star-Child
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and upon the branches of the trees: the frost kept snapping the...
The Artist
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

One evening there came into his soul the desire to fashion an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. And he went forth into the world to look for bronze. For he could only think in bronze.

But all the bronze of...
Winckelmann
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

Goethe’s fragments of art criticism contain a few pages of strange pregnancy on the character of Winckelmann.* He speaks of the teacher who had made his career possible, but whom he had never seen, as of an abstract type of culture, consummate,...
The Story Continued In Several Narratives
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

1. The Narrative of Hester Pinhorn, Cook in the Service of Count Fosco

[Taken down from her own statement]

I am sorry to say that I have never learnt to read or write. I have been a hard-working woman all my life, and have...
Breakfast
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bed-fellow.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good...
Going Aboard
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was nearly six o’clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.

‘There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right,’ said I to Queequeg, ‘it can’t be shadow; she’s off by sunrise, I guess; come on!’

‘Avast!’...
First Night-Watch Fore-Top
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(Stubb solus, and mending a brace.)

Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!—I’ve been thinking over it ever since, and that ha, ha’s the final consequence. Why so? Because a laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer; and come what ...
Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘Who would have thought it, Flask!’ cried Stubb; ‘if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plughole with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonderful old man!’

‘I don’t think it so strange,...
The Great Heidelburgh Tun
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Now comes the Baling of the Case. But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.

Regarding the Sperm Whale’s head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into...
A Squeeze of the Hand
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

That whale of Stubb’s, so dearly purchased, was duly brought to the Pequod’s side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the baling of the Heidelburgh Tun, or Case.

While some were occupied with this latter duty,...
Queequeg in His Coffin
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off. So, it being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and...
The Deck
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The coffin laid upon two line-tubs, between the vice-bench and the open hatchway; the Carpenter caulking its seams; the string of twisted oakum slowly unwinding from a large roll of it placed in the bosom of his frock. —Ahab comes slowly from the cabin-gangway, and...
The Chase—First Day
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man—as his wont at intervals—stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship’s dog will,...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Her thus turning her back on me was fortunately not, for my just preoccupations, a snub that could check the growth of our mutual esteem. We met, after I had brought home little Miles, more intimately than ever on the ground of my stupefaction,...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It took of course more than that particular passage to place us together in presence of what we had now to live with as we could, my dreadful liability to impressions of the order so vividly exemplified, and my companion’s knowledge henceforth—a knowledge half...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The business was practically settled from the moment I never followed him. It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this had somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read into what our...
XVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The next day, after lessons, Mrs Grose found a moment to say to me quietly: 'Have you written, Miss?'

'Yes—I've written.' But I didn't add—for the hour—that my letter, sealed and directed, was still in my pocket. There would be time enough to send it...
XXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Before a new day, in my room, had fully broken, my eyes opened to Mrs Grose, who had come to my bedside with worse news. Flora was so markedly feverish that an illness was perhaps at hand; she had passed a night of extreme...
A Companion Picture
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Sydney,” said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his jackal; “mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.”

Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and...
The Fellow Of Delicacy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor’s daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental debating of the point, he...
Knitting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur Defarge. As early as six o’clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over measures of wine. Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin...
Triumph
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The dread Tribunal of five Judges,* Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day.* Their lists went forth every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The standard gaoler-joke was, “Come out and listen...
A new Acquaintance. The Stroller’s Tale—A disagreeable Interruption; and an unpleasant Rencontre
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pickwick had felt some apprehensions in consequence of the unusual absence of his two friends, which their mysterious behaviour during the whole morning had by no means tended to diminish. It was, therefore, with more than ordinary pleasure that he rose to greet...
Some Account of Eatanswill; of the state of Parties therein; and of the Election of a Member to serve in Parliament for that ancient, loyal, and patriotic Borough
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We will frankly acknowledge, that up to the period of our being first immersed in the voluminous papers of the Pickwick club, we had never heard of Eatanswill; we will with equal candour admit, that we have in vain searched for proof of the...
Comprising a brief Description of the Company at the Peacock assembled; and a Tale told by a Bagman
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is pleasant to turn from contemplating the strife and turmoil of political existence, to the peaceful repose of private life. Although in reality no great partisan of either side, Mr. Pickwick was sufficiently fired with Mr. Pott’s enthusiasm, to apply his whole time...
Too full of Adventure to be briefly described
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year, are enhanced...
Mr. Samuel Weller, being entrusted with a Mission of Love, proceeds to execute it; with what success will hereinafter appear
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

During the whole of next day, Sam kept Mr. Winkle steadily in sight, fully determined not to take his eyes off him for one instant, until he should receive express instructions from the fountain-head. However disagreeable Sam’s very close watch and great vigilance were...
Chapter LV Mr. Solomon Pell, assisted by a Select Committee of Coachmen, arranges the Affairs of the elder Mr. Weller
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Samivel,” said Mr. Weller, accosting his son on the morning after the funeral, “I’ve found it, Sammy. I thought it vos there.”

“Thought wot wos vere?” enquired Sam.

“Your mother-in-law’s vill, Sammy,” replied Mr. Weller. “In wirtue o’ vich, them arrangements is to...
Chapter I: On the Look-Out
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which...
Chapter IV: The R. Wilfer Family
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Reginald WILFER is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror. For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De...
Chapter VII: Mr. Wegg looks after himself*
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Silas WEGG, being on his road to the Roman Empire, approaches it by way of Clerkenwell. The time is early in the evening; the weather moist and raw. Mr. Wegg finds leisure to make a little circuit, by reason that he folds his screen...
Chapter I: Of an Educational Character
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book*—the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book—was a miserable loft in...
Chapter VII: In which a Friendly Move is Originated
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The arrangement between Mr. Boffin and his literary man, Mr. Silas Wegg, so far altered with the altered habits of Mr. Boffin’s life, as that the Roman Empire usually declined in the morning and in the eminently aristocratic family mansion, rather than in the...
Chapter XII: More Birds of Prey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Rogue RIDERHOOD dwelt deep and dark in Lime-house Hole, among the riggers, and the mast, oar, and block makers, and the boat-builders, and the sail-lofts, as in a kind of ship’s hold stored full of waterside characters, some no better than himself, some very...
Chapter I: Lodgers in Queer Street
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being...
Chapter III: The Same Respected Friend in More Aspects than One
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In sooth, it is Riderhood and no other, or it is the outer husk and shell of Riderhood and no other, that is borne into Miss Abbey’s first-floor bedroom. Supple to twist and turn as the Rogue has ever been, he is sufficiently rigid...
Chapter V: The Golden Dustman Falls into Bad Company*
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Were Bella Wilfer’s bright and ready little wits at fault, or was the Golden Dustman passing through the furnace of proof and coming out dross? Ill news travels fast. We shall know full soon.

On that very night of her return from the Happy Return,...
Chapter XIV: Mr. Wegg Prepares a Grindstone for Mr. Boffin’s Nose
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Having assisted at a few more expositions of the lives of Misers, Mr. Venus became almost indispensable to the evenings at the Bower. The circumstance of having another listener to the wonders unfolded by Wegg, or, as it were, another calculator to cast up...
Chapter IV: A Runaway Match
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Cherubic Pa arose with as little noise as possible from beside majestic Ma, one morning early, having a holiday before him. Pa and the lovely woman had a rather particular appointment to keep.

Yet Pa and the lovely woman were not going out together. Bella...
Chapter XI No Way Out
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing themselves over Coketown. A clattering of clogs upon the pavement; a rapid ringing of bells; and all the melancholy mad elephants, polished and oiled up for the day’s...
Chapter VII Gunpowder
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. James Harthouse, “going in” for his adopted party, soon began to score. With the aid of a little more coaching for the political sages, a little more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty,...
Chapter IX Hearing the Last of it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Sparsit, lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in Mr. Bounderby’s retreat, kept such a sharp look-out, night and day, under her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of lighthouses on an iron-bound coast, might have warned all prudent...
Chapter II Very Ridiculous
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. James Harthouse passed a whole night and a day in a state of so much hurry, that the World, with its best glass* in its eye, would scarcely have recognized him during that insane interval, as the brother Jem of the...
Chapter V Found
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Day and night again, day and night again. No Stephen Blackpool. Where was the man, and why did he not come back?

Every night, Sissy went to Rachael’s lodging, and sat with her in her small neat room. All day, Rachael toiled as such people...
Chapter XXIX I Visit Steerforth at His Home, Again
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of absence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary, and consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was no...
Chapter XXXIV My Aunt Astonishes Me
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Wrote to Agnes as soon as Dora and I were engaged. I wrote her a long letter, in which I tried to make her comprehend how blest I was, and what a darling Dora was. I entreated Agnes not to regard this...
Chapter XLI Dora’s Aunts
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their compliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his letter their best consideration, “with a view to the happiness of both parties”—which I thought rather an alarming expression,...
Chapter XLIII Another Retrospect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession.

Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. They seem little more than a...
Chapter LI The Beginning of A Longer Journey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was walking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise now, being so much in attendance on my dear Dora), I was told that Mr. Peggotty desired...
Chapter LX Agnes
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My aunt and I, when we were left alone, talked far into the night. How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those “pecuniary liabilities,” in reference...
Part the Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The world had grown six years older since that night of the return. It was a warm autumn afternoon, and there had been heavy rain. The sun burst suddenly from among the clouds; and the old battleground, sparkling brilliantly and cheerfully at sight of...
Chapter Ten The Law-Writer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On the eastern borders of Chancery Lane, that is to say, more particularly, in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street, Mr Snagsby, Law Stationer, pursues his lawful calling. In the shade of Cook’s Court, at most times a shady place, Mr Snagsby has dealt in all...
Chapter Twenty-One The Smallweed Family
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In a rather ill-favored and ill-savored neighbourhood, though one of its rising grounds bears the name of Mount Pleasant, the Elfin Smallweed, christened Bartholomew, and known on the domestic hearth as Bart, passes that limited portion of his time on which the office and...
Chapter Twenty-Five MRS Snagsby Sees it all
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is disquietude in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street. Black suspicion hides in that peaceful region. The mass of Cook’s Courtiers are in their usual state of mind, no better and no worse; but, Mr Snagsby is changed, and his little woman knows it.

For, Tom-all-alone’s...
Chapter Twenty-Seven More Old Soldiers Than One
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr George has not far to ride with folded arms upon the box, for their destination is Lincoln’s Inn Fields. When the driver stops his horses, Mr George alights, and looking in at the window, says:

‘What, Mr Tulkinghorn’s your man, is he?’

‘Yes, my...
Chapter Thirty-Seven Jarndyce and Jarndyce
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

If the secret that I had to keep had been mine, I must have confided it to Ada before we had been long together. But it was not mine; and I did not feel that I had a right to tell it, even to...
Chapter Forty-Two In Mr Tulkinghorn’s Chambers
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

From the verdant undulations and the spreading oaks of the Dedlock property, Mr Tulkinghorn transfers himself to the stale heat and dust of London. His manner of coming and going between the two places, is one of his impenetrabilities. He walks into Chesney Wold...
Chapter Forty-Three Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It matters little now, how much I thought of my living mother who had told me evermore to consider her dead. I could not venture to approach her, or to communicate with her in writing, for my sense of the peril in which her...
Chapter Forty-Five In Trust
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

One morning when I had done jingling about with my baskets of keys, as my beauty and I were walking round and round the garden I happened to turn my eyes towards the house, and saw a long thin shadow going in which looked...
Chapter Forty-Nine Dutiful Friendship
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A great annual occasion has come round in the establishment of Mr Matthew Bagnet, otherwise Lignum Vitæ, ex-artilleryman and present bassoon-player. An occasion of feasting and festival. The celebration of a birthday in the family.

It is not Mr Bagnet’s birthday. Mr Bagnet merely distinguishes...
Chapter Fifty-One Enlightened
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr Woodcourt arrived in London, he went, that very same day, to Mr Vholes’s in Symond’s Inn. For he never once, from the moment when I entreated him to be a friend to Richard, neglected or forgot his promise. He had told me...
Chapter Sixty-Five Beginning the World
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Term had commenced, and my guardian found an intimation from Mr Kenge that the Cause would come on in two days. As I had sufficient hopes of the will to be in a flutter about it, Allan and I agreed to go down...
Chapter 7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who was it who first announced, who first proclaimed that man only does vile things when he does not know where his real interests lie? and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were...
Chapter 2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But my bout of dissipation was coming to an end and I was becoming dreadfully sick of it. I was struck by remorse, but I drove it away: I was already too sickened. None the less, little by little I grew accustomed...
Chapter 3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

However, yesterday she did not say a word to me all day long about gambling. Indeed, she avoided talking to me altogether yesterday. Her former manner to me has not altered. The same completely offhand behaviour when we meet, even something contemptuous and hostile...
Chapter 9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

On the upper level of the hotel’s broad porch, seated regally in the armchair in which she had been carried up, surrounded by servants, maids, and a host of fawning retainers belonging to the hotel, in the presence of the head waiter himself, who...
Chapter 12
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Grandmother was in an impatient, irritable mood; one could see that the roulette had gone to her head. She was inattentive to everything else and was generally distracted. For example, she did not keep asking about things as we went along, as she had...
2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

General Yepanchin resided in his own house just off Liteinaya, towards the Church of the Transfiguration. Besides this splendid dwelling, five-sixths of which was rented out, the general possessed another huge house on Sadovaya which also brought in a vast income. In...
11
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was three days before the Yepanchins relented. Although the prince blamed himself a great deal as usual, and quite sincerely expected chastisement, inwardly he had been fully convinced all the same that Lizaveta Prokofievna could not be seriously angry with him, and was...
The Judgment of Dungara
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

They tell the tale even now among the groves of the Berbulda Hills, and for corroboration point to the roofless and windowless Mission-house. The great God Dungara, the God of Things as...
In Flood Time
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

There is no getting over the river to-night, Sahib. They say...
Only a Subaltern
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

… Not only to enforce by command, but to encourage by example the energetic discharge of duty and the steady endurance of the difficulties and privations inseparable from Military Service.—Bengal Army

They made Bobby Wick pass an examination at Sandhurst.*...
Chapter 9
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island, that I’d found when I was exploring; so we started, and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a...
Chapter 26
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, when they was all gone, the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she’d give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which was...
Chapter 29
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

They was fetching a very nice looking old gentleman along, and a nice looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And my souls, how the people yelled, and laughed, and kept it up. But I didn’t see no joke about it,...
Chapter V
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

About half-past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon. The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision....
Chapter XIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom’s mind was made up now. He was gloomy and desperate. He was a forsaken, friendless boy, he said; nobody loved him; when they found out what they had driven him to, perhaps they would be sorry; he had tried to do right and...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

At last the sleepy atmosphere was stirred—and vigorously: the murder trial came on in the court. It became the absorbing topic of village talk immediately. Tom could not get away from it. Every reference to the murder sent a shudder to his heart, for...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.

As usual,...
Chapter XV The Long Vacation
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Following Madame Beck’s fête, with its three preceding weeks of relaxation, its brief twelve hours’ burst of hilarity and dissipation, and its one subsequent day of utter languor, came a period of reaction; two months of real application, of close, hard study. These two months,...
Chapter I Bretton
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husband’s family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace—Bretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had been a...
Chapter XXV The Little Countess
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Cheerful as my godmother naturally was, and entertaining as, for our sakes, she made a point of being, there was no true enjoyment that evening at La Terrasse, till, through the wild howl of the winter-night, were heard the signal sounds of arrival. How often,...
Chapter XXXII The First Letter
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Where, it becomes time to inquire, was Paulina Mary? How fared my intercourse with the sumptuous Hotel Crécy? That intercourse had, for an interval, been suspended by absence; M. and Miss de Bassompierre had been travelling, dividing some weeks between the provinces and the capital...
II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Darkly and wearily the days of my recovery went on. After that first outburst of sorrow on the evening when I recognised my sister, and murmured her name as she sat by my side, there sank over all my faculties a dull, heavy trance of...
Journal
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

October 19th.—My retrospect is finished. I have traced the history of my errors and misfortunes, of the wrong I have done and the punishment I have suffered for it, from the past to the present time.

The pages of my manuscript (many more...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Madame Raquin was a former haberdasher from Vernon,* where for nearly twenty-five years she had run a small shop. A few years after the death of her husband she had become tired of the business and sold off her stock. Her savings,...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next morning Laurent awoke feeling refreshed and in good spirits. He had slept well. The cold air coming in through the window quickened his sluggish blood. He scarcely remembered the events of the day before; were it not for the burning sensation in...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

As he left the arcade, Laurent’s mind was on edge and his body tense. Thérèse’s warm breath, her compliance, had brought back his desires with all their former keenness. He walked along the embankment with his hat in his hand, so he could feel the...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning, instead of going up to his studio, Laurent installed himself in a bar at the corner of the Rue Guénégaud, opposite the arcade. From there he examined all the people emerging on to the pavement of the Rue Mazarine. He was watching...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Étienne finally came down from the slag-heap, he went into the pit-head at Le Voreux; and the men he approached to ask if there was any work shook their heads, but they all told him to wait until the overman arrived. They left...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Maheu got home, after leaving étienne at Rasseneur’s, he found Catherine, Zacharie, and Jeanlin already seated round the table finishing their soup. When they got back from the pit they were so hungry that they ate in their damp clothes before even cleaning...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Towards the middle of August, Étienne moved in with the Maheus, after Zacharie had married and was able to obtain an empty house in the village from the Company for Philomène and her two children; and, at first, the young man felt...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That Sunday evening, when it struck eight o’clock, Souvarine was already alone in the bar of the Avantage, at his usual place, leaning his head back against the wall. There wasn’t a single miner who could find two sous to buy himself a pint,...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At the bottom of the pit, the wretched men who had been left stranded were screaming with terror. Now the water was up to their stomachs. They were deafened by the noise of the torrent, and the final collapse of the lining sounded to...
Letter IX Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry-Hill, March 28.

To resist the urgency of entreaty, is a power which I have not yet acquired: I aim not at an authority which deprives you of liberty, yet I would fain guide myself by a prudence which should save me the pangs of...
Doctor Chevalier’s Lie
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The quick report of a pistol rang through the quiet autumn night. It was no unusual sound in the unsavory quarter where Dr. Chevalier had his office. Screams commonly went with it. This time there had been none.

Midnight had already rung in the old...
A Lady of Bayou St. John
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The days and the nights were very lonely for Madame Delisle. Gustave, her husband, was away yonder in Virginia somewhere with Beauregard,* and she was here in the old house on Bayou St. John,* alone with her slaves.

Madame was very beautiful. So...
In Sabine
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The sight of a human habitation, even if it was a rude log cabin with a mud chimney at one end, was a very gratifying one to Grégoire.*

He had come out of Natchitoches parish, and had been riding a great part of the...
Lilacs
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

I

Mme. Adrienne Farival never announced her coming; but the good nuns knew very well when to look for her. When the scent of the lilac blossoms began to permeate the air, Sister Agathe would turn many times during the day to the window; upon...