Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2 STILL EDUCATIONAL The person of the house, doll's dressmaker and manufacturer of ornamental pincushions and pen-wipers, sat in her quaint little...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 9 MR AND MRS BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION Betaking himself straight homeward, Mr Boffin, without further let or hindrance, arrived at the Bower, and gave Mrs...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 10 THE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER DISCOVERS A WORD A darkened and hushed room; the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean; a figure on the...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 16 AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION The estimable Twemlow, dressing himself in his lodgings over the stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, and hearing...
CHAPTER NINE The Thirty-Nine Steps 'Nonsense!' said the official from the Admiralty. Sir Walter got up and left the room while we looked blankly at the table. He came back in ten...
CHAPTER 21 That was the way they did it! There was not half an hour's warning--the works were closed! It had happened that way before, said the men, and it would happen that way forever. They...
CHAPTER 18 Jurgis did not get out of the Bridewell quite as soon as he had expected. To his sentence there were added "court costs" of a dollar and a half--he was supposed to pay for...
CHAPTER XIII "I AM COLIN" Mary took the picture back to the house when she went to her supper and she showed it to Martha. "Eh!" said Martha with great pride....
CHAPTER 1 THE HAPPY PRINCE High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and...
CHAPTER: THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and he lived on the...