CHAPTER XXXI My home, then, when I at last find a home,- -is a cottage; a little room with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 41 Edward, having carried his thanks to Colonel Brandon, proceeded with his happiness to Lucy; and such was the excess of it by the time he reached...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 15 Mrs. Dashwood's visit to Lady Middleton took place the next day, and two of her daughters went with her; but Marianne excused herself...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 4 "What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing." "No taste...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 49 Unaccountable, however, as the circumstances of his release might appear to the whole family, it was certain that Edward was free; and to what...
-BOOK SEVENTH. CHAPTER VIII. THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER. Claude Frollo (for we presume that the reader, more intelligent than Phoebus, has seen in this whole adventure no other...
-BOOK SEVENTH. CHAPTER IV. ANArKH. It chanced that upon a fine morning in this same month of March, I think it was on Saturday the 29th, Saint Eustache's day, our young friend the student,...
CHAPTER III To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion...
-BOOK NINTH. CHAPTER IV. EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL. Day followed day. Calm gradually returned to the soul of la Esmeralda. Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short...