CHAPTER I To my former teacher HATTIE GORDON SMITH in grateful remembrance of her sympathy and encouragement. Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines...
CHAPTER XVII That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow. On...
CHAPTER VII My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear...
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;...
CHAPTER XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar School opened and Anne returned to her work, with fewer theories but considerably more experience. She had several new pupils, six- and seven- year-olds just venturing,...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXI. The small bright lawn stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea. The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus, and cast-iron...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 15 The sisters went out to dinner full of their adventure, and when they were both full of the same subject, there were few dinner-parties that could stand up...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 8 The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop so--quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its beginnings at Speyer,...