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The Dream of Vengeance
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In the evening, her ladyship gave orders that M. d’Artagnan should be admitted as usual, as soon as he should come. But he came not.

On the next morning Kitty went again to see d’Artagnan, and told him all that had occurred on the previous...
A Charming Vision
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the appointed hour the four friends were re-united at the house of Athos. Their anxiety about equipment had entirely disappeared, and their faces no longer bore the marks of any but their own secret care—for, behind all present happiness, there lurks some fear...
The Siege of La Rochelle
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The siege of La Rochelle was one of the greatest events of the reign of Louis XIII.

The political views of the cardinal, when he undertook the siege, were extensive. Of the important cities which had been given by Henry IV. to the Huguenots, as...
The Council of the Musketeers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Athos had foreseen, the bastion was only occupied by about a dozen dead bodies, French and Rochellois.

‘Gentlemen,’ said Athos, who had taken the command of the expedition, ‘whilst Grimaud prepares the table, let us begin by gathering together the muskets and ammunition. We...
A Family Affair
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos had found the right expression. It was necessary to call Buckingham’s a family affair! A family affair was not subject to the investigation of the cardinal. A family affair concerned no one: they might occupy themselves before all the world with...
Fatality
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In the meantime, her ladyship—intoxicated with rage, and raging on the vessel’s deck like an excited lioness—had been even tempted to cast herself into the sea: for she could not bring herself to brook the thought, that she had been insulted by d’Artagnan, and...
The First Day of Imprisonment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Let us now return to her ladyship, of whom, a glance, given to the coast of France, has made us lose sight for an instant.

We shall again find her in the same desperate position in which we left her: digging for herself an abyss...
The Third Day of Imprisonment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Felton was attracted; but more than this must yet be done: it was necessary to retain him; or, rather, it was necessary that he should remain of himself; and her ladyship had only an obscure perception of the means by which this result must...
The Fifth Day of Imprisonment
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Her ladyship had, however, achieved a half triumph, and the success she had obtained renewed her strength.

There was no difficulty in vanquishing, as she had hitherto done, men ready to be led astray, whom the education of a gallant court swiftly drew into her...
The Escape
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Lord de Winter had suspected, her ladyship was not very dangerously wounded. As soon, therefore, as she found herself alone with the attendant whom the baron had summoned, and who hastened to undress her, she opened her eyes. It was, however, necessary to counterfeit...
What Happened at Portsmouth, on the Twenty-third of August, 1628
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Felton took leave of her ladyship, just as a brother who is going out for a mere walk takes leave of his sister, by kissing her hand. His whole manners and appearance indicated a state of ordinary tranquillity; except that a strange gleam, like...
Two Kinds of Demons
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Ah!’ exclaimed both Rochefort and her ladyship at the same instant, ‘it is you!’

‘Yes, it is I.’

‘And you come from——’ demanded her ladyship.

‘From La Rochelle. And you?’

‘From England.’

‘And Buckingham——’

‘Is dead, or dangerously wounded. As I was leaving,...
The Epilogue
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet, and of the succour which had been promised by Buckingham, surrendered after a year’s siege. On the twenty-eighth of October, 1628, the capitulation* was signed.

The king entered Paris on the twenty-third of...
II ‘ ’Twas on the evening of a winter’s day.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening, some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. They circumscribed two men, having at present the aspect of...
IV ‘Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

For reasons of his own, Stephen Smith was stirring a short time after dawn the next morning. From the window of his room he could see, first, two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. Towards the bottom, like liquid in a...
V ‘Bosom’d high in tufted trees.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was breakfast time.

As seen from the rectory dining-room, which took a warm tone of light from the fire, the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of grey. The long-armed trees and shrubs of juniper, cedar, and pine...
XI ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Stephen lay watching the Great Bear;* Elfride was regarding a monotonous parallelogram of window blind. Neither slept that night.

Early the next morning—that is to say, four hours after their stolen interview, and just as the earliest servant was heard moving about—Stephen Smith went...
XVIII ‘He heard her musical pants.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The old tower of West Endelstow Church had reached the last weeks of its existence. It was to be replaced by a new one from the designs of Mr. Hewby, the architect who had sent down Stephen. Planks and poles had arrived in the...
XX ‘A distant dearness in the hill.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Knight turned his back upon the parish of Endelstow, and crossed over to Cork.

One day of absence superimposed itself on another, and proportionately weighted his heart. He pushed on to the Lakes of Killarney, rambled amid their luxuriant woods, surveyed the infinite variety of...
XXI ‘On thy cold grey stones, O sea!’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Stephen had said that he should come by way of Bristol, and thence by a steamer to Castle Boterel, in order to avoid the long journey over the hills from St. Launce’s. He did not know of the extension of the railway to Camelton....

During...
XXIII ‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot?’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

By this time Stephen Smith had stepped out upon the quay at Castle Boterel, and breathed his native air.

A darker skin, a more pronounced moustache, and an incipient beard, were the chief additions and changes noticeable in his appearance.

In spite of the falling...
XXIV ‘Breeze, bird, and flower confess the hour.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The rain had ceased since the sunset, but it was a cloudy night; and the light of the moon, softened and dispersed by its misty veil, was distributed over the land in pale grey.

A dark figure stepped from the doorway of John Smith’s river-side...
XXXVIII ‘Jealousy is cruel as the grave.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Stephen pondered not a little on this meeting with his old friend and once-beloved exemplar. He was grieved, for amid all the distractions of his latter years a still small voice* of fidelity to Knight had lingered on in him. Perhaps this...
XXXIX ‘Each to the loved one’s side.’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The friends and rivals breakfasted together the next morning. Not a word was said on either side upon the matter discussed the previous evening so glibly and so hollowly. Stephen was absorbed the greater part of the time in wishing he were not forced...
Fellow-Townsmen
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

I

The shepherd on the east hill could shout out lambing intelligence to the shepherd on the west hill, over the intervening town chimneys, without great inconvenience to his voice, so nearly did the steep pastures encroach upon the burghers’ back yards. And at...
XIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The news was true. The Life—the one fragile life—that had been used as a measuring-tape of time by law, was in danger of being frayed away. It was the last of a group of lives which had served this purpose, at the end of...
XXIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

He left her at the door of her father’s house. As he receded and was clasped out of sight by the filmy shades he impressed Grace as a man who hardly appertained to her existence at all. Cleverer, greater than herself, one outside her...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

On which Strether saw that Chad was again at hand, and he afterwards scarce knew, absurd as it may seem, what had then quickly occurred. The moment concerned him, he felt, more deeply than he could have explained, and he had a subsequent passage...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

At four o’clock that afternoon he had still not seen him, but he was then, as to make up for this, engaged in talk about him with Miss Gostrey. Strether had kept away from home all day, given himself up to the town and...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether quitted the station half an hour later in different company. Chad had taken charge, for the journey to the hotel, of Sarah, Mamie, the maid and the luggage, all spaciously installed and conveyed; and it was only after the four had rolled away...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
Patagonia was slow, but spacious and comfortable, and there was a motherly decency in her long nursing rock and her rustling old-fashioned gait, the multitudinous swish, in her wake, as of a thousand proper petticoats. It was as if she wished not to...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I myself, more fortunate, continued to sacrifice to opportunity as I myself met it. During this period—of some five years—I lost my friend Latouche, who died of a malarious fever during a tour in the Levant. One of the first things I did on...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I Don’t quite see, my dear,’ Colonel Assingham said to his wife the night of Charlotte’s arrival, ‘I don’t quite see, I’m bound to say, why you take it, even at the worst, so ferociously hard. It isn’t your...
XIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Charlotte
Halfway up the ‘monumental’ staircase, had begun by waiting alone—waiting to be rejoined by her companion, who had gone down all the way, as in common kindness bound, and who, his duty performed, would know where to find her. She was meanwhile, though...
XXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He
Foundhimself therefore saying, with gaiety, even to Fanny Assingham, for their common, concerned glance at Eaton Square, the glance that was so markedly never, as it might have been, a glance at Portland Place: ‘What would our cari sposi...
The Elephant’S Child
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

N the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But...
Thrown Away
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

And some are sulky, while some will plunge.

(So ho! Steady! Stand still, you!)

Some you must gentle, and some you must lunge.*

(There! There! Who wants to kill you?)

Some—there are losses in every trade—

Will break their hearts ere...
Watches of the Night
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

What is in Brahmin’s* books, that is in the Brahmin’s heart. Neither you nor I knew there was so much evil in the world.

Hindu Proverb.

This began in a practical joke; but it has gone far enough now, and is getting serious....

Platte,...
In the House of Suddhoo
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

A stone’s throw out on either hand

From that well-ordered road we tread,

And all the world is wild and strange:

Churel* and ghoul and Djinn* and sprite

Shall bear us company to-night,

For we have reached the Oldest Land

Wherein the Powers...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At La Croix-de-Maufras, in a garden traversed by the railway, the house is placed at an angle, so close to the line that it shakes with every train that passes; and a single journey is enough to fix it in the memory: the whole...
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That day in the second week of March, Monsieur Denizet, the examining magistrate,* had once again summoned a number of important witnesses in the Grandmorin affair to attend him in his chambers in the Palais de Justice at Rouen.

For three weeks this affair...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Three weeks later, at about half-past-eleven on a lovely sunny morning, Gervaise and Coupeau the roofer were having a brandied plum together at Père Colombe’s bar, the Assommoir.* Coupeau had been smoking a cigarette outside on the pavement when Gervaise crossed the...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Gervaise didn’t want a fancy wedding. Why spend the money? Besides, she still felt a bit bashful and couldn’t see the point of drawing attention to the marriage all over the neighbourhood. But Coupeau protested that you couldn’t get married just like that, without...
XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Octave went downstairs the next morning at eight o’clock, he was surprised to find that the whole building knew about Monsieur Vabre’s seizure of the previous night and of the landlord’s desperate condition. No one, however, was concerned about the patient; their sole...
Chapter V
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

Some time had elapsed when there happened another occurrence, still more remarkable. Pleyel, on his return from Europe, brought information of considerable importance to my brother. My ancestors were noble Saxons, and possessed large domains in Lusatia.* The Prussian wars had destroyed...
Chapter XI
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘For once I was the Hero’

Lord
John
Roxton was right when he thought that some specially toxic quality might lie in the bite of the horrible creatures which had attacked us. On the morning after our first adventure upon the plateau, both Summerlee...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘Those were the Real Conquests’

We had imagined that our pursuers, the ape-men, knew nothing of our brushwood hiding-place, but we were soon to find out our mistake. There was no sound in the woods-not a leaf moved upon the trees, and all was...
Chapter 3 magic and religion
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

The two principles of Sympathetic Magic are the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact or Contagion.

If we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like...
Chapter 6 the worship of trees
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

Great forests of ancient Europe.

In the religious history of the Aryan race in Europe the worship of trees has played an important part. Nothing could be more natural. For at the dawn of history Europe was covered with immense primaeval forests, in...
Chapter 8 the kings of rome
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

Egeria at Nemi a nymph of water and of the oak, perhaps a form of Diana.

The legend of nuptials of Numa and Egeria may be a reminiscence of a sacred marriage which the kings of Rome contracted with the goddess of water and...
Chapter 23 killing the divine animal
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

Hunting and pastoral tribes as well as agricultural peoples, have been in the habit of killing and eating the beings whom they worship. The Californian Indians used solemnly to kill the great buzzard which they adored; but they believed that though they slew it...
Deserted
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Mrs Ellphalet Johnson was a very hardworking woman—even her nextdoor neighbors admitted that. Her chimney blackened the soft morning air as early as any in town; her wash fluttered white under the apple boughs long before breakfast. That is, before Ellphalet’s breakfast.

Ellphalet kept store....
The Widow’s Might
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

James had come on to the funeral, but his wife had not; she could not leave the children—that is what he said. She said, privately, to him, that she would not go. She never was willing to leave New York except for Europe or...
A Partnership
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

After the Baby was married—not a real baby, of course, but a girl of twenty-two who could never persuade her parents to call her anything but ‘Baby’—Mrs Haven fell to cleaning house.

She set her teeth, put clamps on her heart, and cleaned house from...
Girls and Land
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

If Dacia Boone’s father had lived he would have been a rich man, a very rich man, and a power in politics also—for good or ill. He was of the same stamp as Mark Hanna, a born organizer, an accumulator and efficient handler of...
Dionea
Authors: Lee Vernon
Published: December 2020

From the Letters of Doctor Alessandro De Rosis to the Lady Evelyn Savelli, Princess of Sabina

Montemirto Ligure, June 29, 1873

I Take immediate advantage of the generous offer of your Excellency (allow an old Republican who has held you on his...
The Mark of the Beast
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger?

East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church...
Volume II
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

To Dr. LEWIS

dear lewis,

Your fable of the monkey and the pig, is what the Italians call ben trovata:
1 but I shall not repeat it to my apothecary, who is a proud Scotchman, very thin skinned, and, for aught...
XII The Daguerreotypist
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

IT MUST not be supposed that the life of a personage, naturally so active as Phoebe, could be wholly confined within the precincts of the old Pyncheon-house. Clifford’s demands upon her time were usually satisfied, in those long days, considerably earlier than sunset. Quiet as...
XIII Alice Pyncheon
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

THERE was a message brought, one day, from the worshipful Gervayse Pyncheon to young Matthew Maule, the carpenter, desiring his immediate presence at the House of the Seven Gables.

“And what does your master want with me?” said the carpenter to Mr. Pyncheon’s black servant....
2
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Whether much or little consideration had been directed to the result, Miss Chancellor certainly would not have incurred this reproach. She was habited in a plain dark dress, without any ornaments, and her smooth, colourless hair was confined as carefully as that of her...
4
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She had told him before they started that they should be early; she wished to see Miss Birdseye alone, before the arrival of any one else. This was just for the pleasure of seeing her—it was an opportunity; she was always so taken up...
5
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Farrinder, meanwhile, was not eager to address the assembly. She confessed as much to Olive Chancellor, with a smile which asked that a temporary lapse of promptness might not be too harshly judged. She had addressed so many assemblies, and she wanted to...
9
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Ransom approached Mrs Farrinder again, who had remained on her sofa with Olive Chancellor; and as she turned her face to him he saw that she had felt the universal contagion. Her keen eye sparkled, there was a flush on her matronly cheek, and...
20
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She hoped she should not soon see him again, and there appeared to be no reason she should, if their intercourse was to be conducted by means of cheques. The understanding with Verena was, of course, complete; she had promised to stay...
28
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He could command the music-room very well from where he stood, behind a thick outer fringe of intently listening men. Verena Tarrant was erect on her little platform, dressed in white, with flowers in her bosom. The red cloth beneath her feet looked rich...
29
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Luna was early in the field the next day and her sister wondered to what she owed the honour of a visit from her at eleven o’clock in the morning. She very soon saw, when Adeline asked her whether it had been she...
42
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Ransom made no reply; he was watching the door, which at that moment gave way from within. Verena stood there—it was she, evidently, who had opened it—and her eyes went straight to his. She was dressed in white, and her face was whiter than...
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Nor are those empty hearted, whose low sound

Reverbs no hollowness.’

The conversation related in the last chapter was interrupted by the entrance of Peter, who, as he left the room, looked significantly at Adeline and almost beckoned. She was anxious to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Danger, whose limbs of giant mold

What mortal eye can fix’d behold?

Who stalks his round, an hideous form!

Howling amidst the midnight Storm!—

And with him thousand phantoms join’d,

Who prompt to deeds accurs‘d the mind!—

On whom that rav’ning brood of Fate,

Who...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Still Fancy, to herself unkind,

Awakes to grief the soften’d mind,

And points the bleeding friend.’

Adeline, assisted by a fine constitution, and the kind attentions ofher new friends, was in a little more than a week so much recovered as to...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

"Tis only when with inbred horror smote

At some base act, or done, or to be done,

That the recoiling soul, with conscious dread,

Shrinks back into itself.’

We return now to Pierre De la Motte, who, after remaining some weeks...
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

The Lamp of Memory

Among the hours of his life to which the writer looks back with peculiar gratitude, as having been marked by more than ordinary fulness of joy or clearness of teaching, is one passed, now some years ago, near time of...
Modern Painters, IV (1856)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Of the Turnerian Picturesque

I Cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of...
Cambridge School of Art: Inaugural Address (1858)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

I Suppose the persons interested in establishing a School of Art for workmen may in the main be divided into two classes, namely, first, those who chiefly desire to make the men themselves happier, wiser, and better; and secondly, those who desire to...
Unto This Last (1860)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

The Roots of Honour

Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious—certainly the least creditable—is the modern soi- disant science of political economy, based on the...
Lectures on Art (1870)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Inaugural

The duty which is to-day laid on me, of introducing, among the elements of education appointed in this great University, one not only new, but such as to involve in its possible results some modification of the rest, is, as you well feel,...
Chapter VI
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter

August 4.—The first post brought a nice letter from our dear son Willie, acknowledging a trifling present which Carrie sent him, the day before yesterday being his twentieth birthday. To our utter amazement he...
Chapter VII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Home again. Mrs James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin. Next-door neighbours are a little troublesome. Some one tampers with my diary. Got a place for Lupin. Lupin startles us with an announcement.

August 22.—Home sweet Home again! Carrie bought some...
Chapter X
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Reflections. I make another Good Joke. Am annoyed at the constant serving up of the‘Blancmange’. Lupin expresses his opinion of Weddings. Lupin falls out with Daisy Mutlar.

November 16.—Woke about twenty times during the night, with terrible thirst. Finished off all the water...
Chapter XI
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr Padge. Don’t care for him. Mr Burwin-Fosselton becomes a nuisance.

November 20.—Have seen nothing of Lupin the whole day. Bought a cheap address-book. I spent the evening copying in the...
Chapter XI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which a logical Argument is unseasonably interrupted

The Marquis was also extremely uneasy at her Obstinacy: He desired nothing more ardently than to marry her to his Nephew; but he could not resolve to force her Consent; and, however determined he appeared to...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Two Conversations, out of which the Reader may pick up a great deal

Arabella, continuing to ruminate upon her Adventure during their little Journey, appeared so low-spirited and reserved, that Mr. Glanville, tho’ he ardently wished to know all the Particulars of...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which contains some necessary Consequences of the foregoing Mistakes.—A Soliloquy on a Love-Letter

While
Arabella passed her Time in her Closet, in the most disagreeable Reflections, Glanville was racking his Brain to find out the Meaning of those mysterious Words she had...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine is in some little Confusion

While
Arabella was uttering this pathetic Complaint, Mr. Glanville, with great Difficulty, kept himself from smiling; and, by some supplicating Looks to his Sister, prevented her laughing out; yet she gigled in secret...
Chapter IX
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Reader willfind a Description of a Beauty, in a Style truly sublime

The new-fallen Snow, pursued Sir George, was tanned, in Comparison of the refined Purity of that White which made up the Ground of her Complexion; and, though...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which concludes with an authentic Piece of History

Arabella, during the rest of this Journey, was so wholly taken up in contemplating upon the last Adventure, that she mixed but little in the Conversation. Upon their drawing near Bath, the Situation of...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Contains the Conversation referr’d to in the last Chapter of the preceding Book

Miss
Glanville, who with a malicious Pleasure had secretly triumph’d in the Extravagances her beautiful Cousin had been guilty of, was now sensibly disappointed to find they had had so little...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which is related an admirable Adventure

Miss
Glanville whose Spirits were greatly exhilerated at their Entrance into London, that Seat of Magnificence and Pleasure, congratulated her Cousin upon the Entertainment she would receive from the new and surprizing Objects which every...
Chapter IX
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which will be found to contain Information absolutely necessary for the right understanding of this History

Our fair and afflicted Heroine, accompanied by the Ladies we have mention’d, having cross’d the River, pursu’d their Walk upon its winding Banks, entertaining themselves with the usual...
Chapter I
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for...
Chapter IV
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

The following evening Melmoth retired early. The restlessness of the preceding night inclined him to repose, and the gloom of the day left him nothing to...
Chapter XI
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘And it was true,—I was a prisoner in the Inquisition. Great emergencies certainly inspire us with the feelings they...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Isidora was so accustomed to the wild exclamations and (to her) unintelligible allusions of her mysterious lover, that she felt no unwonted alarm at his singular language, and abrupt departure. There was nothing in...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘The remainder of that dreadful night when Isidora disappeared, had been passed almost in despair...
Chapter II
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data. It might be supposed that a catastrophe such as I have just related would have effectually cooled my...
Chapter IV
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The brig put to sea, as I had supposed, in about an hour after he had left the watch. This was on the twentieth of June. It will be remembered that I had then been in the hold for three days; and, during this...
Chapter V
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

For some minutes after the cook had left the forecastle, Augustus abandoned himself to despair, never hoping to leave the berth alive. He now came to the resolution of acquainting the first of the men who should come down with my situation,...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Onthe twentieth of the month, finding it altogether impossible to subsist any longer upon the filberts, the use of which occasioned us the most excruciating torment, we resolved to make a desperate attempt at descending the southern declivity of the hill. The face of...
Ms found in a bottle
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Qui n’a plus qu’un moment à vivre N’a plus rien à dissimuler.*

Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me...
Loss of breath
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Oh, breathe not, etc.—

The most notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy, as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy. Salmanezer, as we have it in the holy...
Mystification
Authors: poe Edgar Allan
Published: December 2020

’Slid, if these be your ‘passados’ and ‘montantes,’ I’ll have none of them.

Ned
Knowles.*

The Baron Ritzner Von Jung was of a noble Hungarian family, every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend)...
III
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

‘Don’t worry, Monsieur,’ said Indiana. ‘The man you killed will be quite well in a few days; at least we hope so, though he can’t speak yet.’

‘That’s not the point, Madame,’ said the Colonel sullenly. ‘I want you to tell me the name of...
VI
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Raymon had not expected such a silent drawing-room, with its few subdued figures. It was impossible to pronounce a word which was not heard in every corner of the room. The dowagers who were playing cards seemed to be there only to get in...
VII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

The next day, when he woke up Raymon received a second letter from Noun. He did not despise that one and throw it away. On the contrary, he opened it eagerly; it might tell him something about Madame Delmare. It did indeed, but what...
X
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

As for Raymon, it was not out of boastfulness or hurt pride that he aspired more than ever to Madame Delmare’s love and forgiveness. He thought they were unattainable, and the love of no other woman, no other happiness on earth, seemed worthwhile. He was...
XII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

He had been in the drawing-room for two hours when he heard Madame Delmare’s gentle, slightly husky voice in the neighbouring room. Through thinking about his seduction plan, he had become enthusiastic about it like an author for his subject or a lawyer for...
XXIII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Letter from Madame Delmare to M. de Ramière

From Bourbon Island, 3 June 18.

‘I had resolved to weary you no more with my memory, but on arriving here and reading the letter you sent me the day before my departure from Paris, I feel...
XXIV
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Madame Delmare’s home had, however, become more peaceful. Many of the difficulties which had been aggravated formerly by the officious zeal of her false friends had disappeared with these eager mediators. Sir Ralph with his silence and apparent non-intervention was more skilful than all...
XXV
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Now, it so happened that the ministry of 8 August,* which caused so many upsets in France, dealt a hard blow to the security of Raymon’s position. M. de Ramière was not one of those blindly vain individuals who were triumphant over one...
XXIX
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

At the city boundary, the carriage stopped. A servant, whom Madame Delmare recognized as having seen in the past in Raymon’s service, came to the carriage door to ask where he should take Madame. Without thinking, Indiana gave the street and the...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Varvara
Petrovna rang the bell and flung herself into an armchair near the window.

‘Sit here, my dear,’ she said, motioning Marya Timofeevna to a seat in the middle of the room near a large round table. ‘Stepan Trofimovich, what do you make of...
Chapter 9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

In the meantime an incident occurred that surprised me and shocked Stepan Trofimovich. At eight o’clock in the morning his servant Nastasya came running over to tell me that her master had been ‘raided’. At first I could make nothing of it: about all...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Many people saw Peter Stepanovich that morning; those who did reported him to be in a state of extreme agitation. At two o’clock he went to see Gaganov, who had arrived from the country only the day before and whose house was full...
The Grievance
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

(Here at the beginning of this chapter the editor of the late Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov’s Memoirs considers it his duty to make the following communication to his readers:

In the first chaper of ‘Memoirs from the House of the Dead’ something is said of...
The Escape
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Soon after the major’s replacement a radical change took place in our prison. The penal servitude division was abolished and in its place there was founded a military penal company, based on the penal battalions in Russia. This meant that exiled convicts of the...
Chapter XXII The Holy Fountain
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn’t...
Chapter XXXV A Pitiful Incident
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

It’s a world of surprises. The king brooded; this was natural. What would he brood about, should you say? Why, about the prodigious nature of his fall, of course—from the loftiest place in the world to the lowest; from the most illustrious station in...
Shirley seeks to be Saved by Works
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

“Of course, I know he will marry Shirley,” were her first words when she rose in the morning. “And he ought to marry her: she can help him,” she added firmly. “But I shall be forgotten when they are married,” was...
To-Morrow
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The two girls met no living soul on their way back to the Rectory: they let themselves in noiselessly; they stole up-stairs unheard: the breaking morning gave them what light they needed. Shirley sought her couch immediately; and, though the room was strange—for she...
Rushedge, a Confessional
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Everybody said it was high time for Mr. Moore to return home: all Briarfield wondered at his strange absence, and Whinbury and Nunnely brought each its separate contribution of amazement.

Was it known why he stayed away? Yes: it was known twenty—forty times over; there...
Case of Domestic Persecution. — Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Martin, having known the taste of excitement, wanted a second draught; having felt the dignity of power, he loathed to relinquish it. Miss Helstone—that girl he had always called ugly, and whose face was now perpetually before his eyes, by day and by night,...
A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter To a Friend. A Fragment.
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Bookseller’s Advertisement.

The following Discourse came into my hands perfect and entire. But there being several thing in it which the present age would not very well bear, I kept it by me some years, resolving it should never see the light. At...
Additions to A Tale of a Tub
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

[a] The History of Martin.

How
Jack & Martin being parted, set up each for himself. How they travel’d over hills & dales, met many disasters, suffered much for the good cause, & strugled with difficultys & wants, not having where to lay their...
Of Liberty and Necessity
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

PART I

IT might reasonably be expected, in questions, which have been canvassed and disputed with great eagerness, since the first origin of science and philosophy, that the meaning of all the terms, at least, should have been agreed upon among the disputants; and...
Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

PART I

There is not a greater number of philosophical reasonings, displayed upon any subject, than those, which prove the existence of a Deity, and refute the fallacies of Atheists;* and yet the most religious philosophers still dispute whether any man...
Chapter VI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I make great progress in my studies——am caressed by every body——my female cousins take notice of me——I reject their invitation——they are incensed and conspire against me——I am left destitute by a misfortune that befals my uncle—Gawky’s treachery——my revenge

As I was now capable of reflection,...
Chapter XII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Captain Weazel challenges Strap, who declines the combat—an affair between the captain and me——the usurer is fain to give miss Jenny five guineas for a release——we are in danger of losing a meal——the behaviour of Weazel, Jenny, and Joey on that occasion—an account of captain...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We lament over the fate of our companion——the captain offers Morgan his liberty, which he refuses to accept——we are brought before him and examined——Morgan is sent back to custody, whither also I am remanded after a curious trial

The news of this event affected...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I get up, and crawl into a barn, where I am in danger of perishing thro’ the fear of the country people——their inhumanity——I am succoured by a reputed witch——her story——her advice——she recommends me as a valet to a single lady, whose character she explains

But...
Chapter LXII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I read Melopoyr’s tragedy, and conceive a vast opinion of his genius——he recounts his adventures

While we eat our breakfast together, I acquainted him with the character and condition of the poet, who came in with his play at that instant, and imagining we...
Chapter LXIV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am seized with a deep melancholy, and become a sloven——I am relieved by my uncle——he prevails upon me to engage with his owners, as surgeon of the ship which he commands——he makes me a considerable present—entertains Strap as his steward——I take my leave of...
Chapter LXVIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

My father makes a present to Narcissa—the letter is dispatched to her brother—I appear among my acquaintance—Banter’s behaviour—the Squire refuses his consent—my uncle comes to town——approves of my choice—I am married——we meet the Squire and his lady at the play—our acquaintance is courted

After...
Chapter LXIX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

My father intends to revisit the place of his nativity—we propose to accompany him—my uncle renews his will in my favour, determining to go to sea again——we set out for Scotland——arrive at Edinburgh—purchase our paternal estate——proceed to it——halt at the town where I was educated——take...
Chapter 8
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Having seen our friend properly installed in his new office, we turned our eyes towards Windsor. The nearness of this place to London was such, as to take away the idea of painful separation, when we quitted Raymond and Perdita. We took leave of...
Chapter 12
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

During this voyage, when on calm evenings we conversed on deck, watching the glancing of the waves and the changeful appearances of the sky, I discovered the total revolution that the disasters of Raymond had wrought in the mind of my sister. Were they...
Chapter 18
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I did proceed to Windsor, but not with the intention of remaining there. I went but to obtain the consent of Idris, and then to return and take my station beside my unequalled friend; to share his labours, and save him, if so it...
Chapter 25
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

After the repose of a few days, we held a council, to decide on our future movements. Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. We had...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

“Peace to the spirits of my honoured parents, respected be their Remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness; and Oh may their orphan-descendant be influenced through life...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning during breakfast, Cecilia was informed that a gentleman desired to speak with her. She begged permission of Mrs. Harrel to have him asked up stairs, and was not a little surprized when he proved to be the same old gentleman whose...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The two following days had neither event nor disturbance, except some little vexation occasioned by the behaviour of Sir Robert Floyer, who still appeared not to entertain any doubt of the success of his addresses. This impertinent confidence she could only attribute...
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

And here, at the door of his Father’s house, and just ascending the steps, she perceived young Delvile.

“Again!” cried he, handing her out of the chair, “surely some good genius is at work for me this morning!”

She told him she should not have...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

As Cecilia now found herself cleared, at least, of all suspicions of harbouring too tender a regard for Mr. Belfield, her objections to visiting his sister were removed, and the morning after her return to Mr. Harrel’s, she went in a chair to Swallow-street....

She...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

At the door of the Pantheon they were joined by Mr. Arnott and Sir Robert Floyer, whom Cecilia now saw with added aversion: they entered the great room during the second act of the Concert, to which as no one of the party but...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mr. Briggs was at home, and Cecilia instantly and briefly informed him that it was inconvenient for her to live any longer at Mr. Harrel’s, and that if she could be accommodated at his house, she should be glad to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia’s next progress, therefore, was to St. James’s-square, whither she went in the utmost anxiety, from her uncertainty of the reception with which her proposal would meet.

The servants informed her that Mr. and Mrs. Delvile were at breakfast, and that the Duke...
Chapter X
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

From this soothing prospect, Cecilia was presently disturbed by Mrs. Harrel’s maid, who came to entreat she would hasten to her lady, whom she feared was going into fits.

Cecilia flew to her immediately, and found her in the most violent affliction. She used every...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Delvile Castle was situated in a large and woody park, and surrounded by a moat. A draw-bridge which fronted the entrance was every night, by order of Mr. Delvile, with the same care as if still necessary for the preservation of the family, regularly...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

At dinner, with the assistance of Lord Ernolf, who was most happy to give it, Cecilia seemed tolerably easy. Lord Derford, too, encouraged by his father, endeavoured to engage some share of her attention; but he totally failed; her mind was superior to little...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia was still in this tempestuous state, when a message was brought her that a gentleman was below stairs, who begged to have the honour of seeing her. She concluded he was Delvile, and the thought of meeting him merely to communicate what must...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

It was necessary, however, not to moralize, but to act; Cecilia had undertaken to give her answer in a week, and the artful attorney had drawn from her an acknowledgement of her situation, by which he might claim it yet sooner.

The law-suit with which...
Chapter X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Fleda’s line had been taken, her word was quite ready: on the terrace of the painted pots she broke out before her benefactress could put a question. ‘His errand was perfectly simple: he came to demand that you shall pack everything straight up again...
Introductory Letters
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

If there are certain circumstances under which a fond father can address an imprisoned son, without suffering the bitterest heart-rendings of paternal agony, such are...
LETTER VII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

This is the sixth day of my convalescence, and the first of my descent from my western tower; for I find it is literally in a tower, or turret, which terminates a wing of these ruins, I have been lodged. These...