CHAPTER XIX WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN. Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted with possessing more treasure than all...
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 4 A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY Mr and Mrs Wilfer had seen a full quarter of a hundred more anniversaries of their wedding day than Mr and Mrs Lammle had seen...
BOOK TWO THE WORLD WAR CHAPTER 5 1941 Chubby, brownette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to her radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport,...
BOOK ONE DAWN CHAPTER 2 THE FALL OF ATLANTIS 1. EDDORE "Members of the innermost circle, wherever you are and whatever you may be doing, tune in!" the All-Highest broadcast....
CHAPTER 17 At seven o'clock the next morning Jurgis was let out to get water to wash his cell-- a duty which he performed faithfully, but which most of the prisoners were accustomed to shirk,...
CHAPTER 15 The beginning of these perplexing things was in the summer; and each time Ona would promise him with terror in her voice that it would not happen again--but in vain. Each crisis would leave...
CHAPTER LIX. The Bulletin. The Duc de Beaufort wrote to Athos. The letter destined for the living only reached the dead. God had changed the address. "MY DEAR COMTE," wrote the...
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those...