CHAPTER XXXV Her narrative ended; even its re-assertions and secondary explanations were done. Tess's voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no...
Adventure II. The Yellow Face [In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 46 Marianne's illness, though weakening in its kind, had not been long enough to make her recovery slow; and with youth, natural strength,...
Chapter XVIII THAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on...
Chapter 8 At the Sign of the Spy-glass WHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spy-glass, and told me I should easily find the place by...
The refusal by government to evaluate the risks of MMR properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history. There are very powerful people in positions of great authority who have...
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...
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 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...