-CHAPTER XI WITH DEJAH THORIS As we reached the open the two female guards who had been detailed to watch over Dejah Thoris hurried up and made as though to assume custody of her once more. The poor...
Book the Second: The Golden Thread Chapter XXIII. Fire Rises There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on...
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Adventure VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with...
CHAPTER 2 JEEVES AND THE UNBIDDEN GUEST I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare--or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad--who says that...
Chapter VII. "GIT up! What you 'bout?" I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. Pap was standing...
PART FOUR--The Stockade Chapter 16 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How theShip Was Abandoned IT was about half past one--three bells in the sea phrase--that the two boats went ashore from the...
Book One: Recalled to Life Chapter V. The Wine-shop A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out...
Chapter 31 The Treasure-hunt--Flint's Pointer "JIM," said Silver when we were alone, "if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. I seen...
CHAPTER III WRECKED ON A DESERT ISLAND After this stop, we made on to the southward continually for ten or twelve days, living very sparingly on our provisions, which began to abate very much, and...
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN By Mark Twain NOTICE: PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons...