-CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a...
CHAPTER VI In the Park "What are you going to do with yourselves today, girls?" asked Philippa, popping into Anne's room one Saturday afternoon. "We are going for a...
CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off The February morning looked gray and drizzling through the window of Uncle Tom's cabin. It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. The...
CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade "In Ramah there was a voice heard,-- weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be...
CHAPTER XV Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters Since the thread of our humble hero's life has now become interwoven with that of higher ones, it is necessary to give some...
CHAPTER LI At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year. It is a day of fulfilment;...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 29 Before the house-maid had lit their fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over a cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half...
Chapter XII ONE of the reasons why Tom's mind had drifted away from its secret troubles was, that it had found a new and weighty matter to interest itself about. Becky Thatcher had stopped...
Chapter XXIX In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only To Be Met With On American Railroads The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption, passing Fort Saunders,...
CHAPTER VIII Anne's First Proposal The old year did not slip away in a green twilight, with a pinky-yellow sunset. Instead, it went out with a wild, white bluster and blow. It was one of the...