THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle...
CHAPTER 3. THE LAST HERD Over gray No-Man's-Land stole down the shadows of night. The undulating prairie shaded dark to the western horizon, rimmed with a fading streak of light. Tall figures,...
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett CHAPTER 15. The Magic When Sara had passed the house next door she had seen Ram Dass closing the shutters, and caught her glimpse of this room also....
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 12 THE PASSING SHADOW The winds and tides rose and fell a certain number of times, the earth moved round the sun a certain number of times, the ship upon...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 5 CONCERNING THE MENDICANT'S BRIDE The impressive gloom with which Mrs Wilfer received her husband on his return from the wedding, knocked so hard...
CHAPTER 22 Jurgis took the news in a peculiar way. He turned deadly pale, but he caught himself, and for half a minute stood in the middle of the room, clenching his hands tightly and setting his...
CHAPTER 11 During the summer the packing houses were in full activity again, and Jurgis made more money. He did not make so much, however, as he had the previous summer, for the packers took on more...
CHAPTER 10 During the early part of the winter the family had had money enough to live and a little over to pay their debts with; but when the earnings of Jurgis fell from nine or ten dollars a week...
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 XI Part 2 THE TEST ON MIRIAM She was very quiet, very calm. She only realised that she was doing something for him. He could hardly bear it. She lay to be sacrificed for him because she loved...