CHAPTER 27 Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more. He was crippled--he was as literally crippled as any wild animal which has lost its claws, or been torn out of its shell. He had been...
CHAPTER XIX "IT HAS COME!" Of course Dr. Craven had been sent for the morning after Colin had had his tantrum. He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always...
CHAPTER VI "THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING--THERE WAS!" The next day the rain poured down in torrents again, and when Mary looked out of her window the moor was almost hidden by gray mist...
CHAPTER II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman. Since the departure of Athos for Blois, Porthos...
CHAPTER X Part 1 CLARA WHEN he was twenty-three years old, Paul sent in a landscape to the winter exhibition at Nottingham Castle. Miss Jordan had taken a good deal of interest in him, and invited him...
BOOK I: THE ROBE CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT The sleepy village of Gavrillac, a half- league removed from the main road to Rennes, and therefore undisturbed by the world's traffic, lay in a...
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH THE LAST DAYS AT HOME Part 1 They decided to go to Switzerland at the session's end. "We'll clean up everything tidy," said Capes.... For her...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XVII. "Your cousin the Countess called on mother while you were away," Janey Archer announced to her brother on the evening of his...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XVIII. "What are you two plotting together, aunt Medora?" Madame Olenska cried as she came into the room. She was dressed as if for a...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXIII. The next morning, when Archer got out of the Fall River train, he emerged upon a steaming midsummer Boston. The streets near the station were full...