CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor,...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER VIII. It was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had "lost her looks." She had appeared there first, in Newland...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 25 Evie heard of her father's engagement when she was in for a tennis tournament, and her play went simply to pot. That she should marry and leave him had...
CHAPTER IV A Day Behind the Counter TOWARDS noon, Hepzibah saw an elderly gentleman, large and portly, and of remarkably dignified demeanor, passing slowly along on the opposite side of the white and...
BOOK THREE TRIPLANETARY CHAPTER 13 THE HILL The heavy cruiser Chicago hung motionless in space, thousands of miles distant from the warring fleets of space-ships so viciously attacking and so...
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 XX "I SHALL LIVE FOREVER--AND EVER--AND EVER!" But they were obliged to wait more than a week because first there came some very windy days and then Colin was threatened with...
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 IV MARTHA When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily....
CHAPTER XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet. D'Artagnan, still confused and oppressed by the conversation he had just had with the king, could not resist asking himself if he were really in...