CHAPTER XXXVI Clare arose in the light of a dawn that was ashy and furtive, as though associated with crime. The fireplace confronted him with its extinct embers; the spread supper-table, whereon...
CHAPTER LI At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year. It is a day of fulfilment;...
Chapter XXIX In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only To Be Met With On American Railroads The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption, passing Fort Saunders,...
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...
CHAPTER XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas On the first Thursday night of Anne's sojourn in Valley Road Janet asked her to go to prayer-meeting. Janet blossomed out like a rose to attend that...
CHAPTER IX A Question of Color "That old nuisance of a Rachel Lynde was here again today, pestering me for a subscription towards buying a carpet for the vestry room," said Mr....
CHAPTER XXI Roses of Yesterday The fortnight Anne spent in Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one, with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought...
-BOOK FOURTH. CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO. In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. Claude Frollo was no...
-BOOK NINTH. CHAPTER V. THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR. In the meantime, public minor had informed the archdeacon of the miraculous manner in which the gypsy had been saved. When he learned it, he knew not...