CHAPTER 8 "They linger yet, Avengers of their native land."--Gray The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion. During the occurrence of the deadly encounter just...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXI. Archer had been stunned by old Catherine's news. It was only natural that Madame Olenska should have hastened from Washington in response to...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 30 Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of college, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as concerned him,...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 13 GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME, AND HANG HIM Fascination Fledgeby, left alone in the counting-house, strolled about with his hat on one side, whistling, 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 21 That was the way they did it! There was not half an hour's warning--the works were closed! It had happened that way before, said the men, and it would happen that way forever. They...
CHAPTER 18 Jurgis did not get out of the Bridewell quite as soon as he had expected. To his sentence there were added "court costs" of a dollar and a half--he was supposed to pay for...
CHAPTER V THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR At first each day which passed by for Mary Lennox was exactly like the others. Every morning she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling upon the...
CHAPTER III ACROSS THE MOOR She slept a long time, and when she awakened Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunchbasket at one of the stations and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread and butter and...