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,...
CHAPTER FOUR The Adventure of the Radical Candidate You may picture me driving that 40 h.p. car for all she was worth over the crisp moor roads on that shining May morning; glancing back at first over...
CHAPTER 17 At seven o'clock the next morning Jurgis was let out to get water to wash his cell-- a duty which he performed faithfully, but which most of the prisoners were accustomed to shirk,...
CHAPTER XXVII IN THE GARDEN In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before....
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 1 THE HAPPY PRINCE High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and...
CHAPTER "The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge."...
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...
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-- Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank,...
History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott -CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA. There were three great European nations in ancient days, each of which furnished history with a hero: the Greeks, the...