African Americans who fought during the Civil War had high hopes of gaining some form of meaningful citizenship. Clearly the outcomes fell well short of their expectations, and by that measure, the...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 18 Elinor saw, with great uneasiness the low spirits of her friend. His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment...
CHAPTER 6 The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss...
CHAPTER 7 The light projected on the situation by Mrs. Fisher had the cheerless distinctness of a winter dawn. It outlined the facts with a cold precision unmodified by shade or colour, and refracted,...
CHAPTER 8. THE LAST NIGHT Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole. "Bless me, Poole, what brings you...
BOOK FIFTH II On which Strether saw that Chad was again at hand, and he afterwards scarce knew, absurd as it may seem, what had then quickly occurred. The moment concerned him, he felt, more deeply...
-CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE The facts of the burglary at the vicarage came to us chiefly through the medium of the vicar and his wife. It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the...
HOOFSTUK XVIII wat hulle gesien het in die land van El Dorado. Cacambo het sy nuuskierigheid aan die verhuurder, wat antwoord gemaak: "Ek is baie onkundig, maar nie die ergste op daardie...
HOOFSTUK XXVIII Twee dae is verby. Dit is 'n somer-aand; die koetsier het my neergesit op' n plek met die naam Whitcross; hy kon my nie verder neem vir die bedrag wat ek gegee het, en...