VOLUME I CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER IV. In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged. The New York ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters;...
The Age of Innocence av Edith Wharton kapittel IX. The Countess Olenska hadde sagt "etter fem", og på halv etter time Newland Archer ringte til peeling stucco huset med en gigantisk...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2 STILL EDUCATIONAL The person of the house, doll's dressmaker and manufacturer of ornamental pincushions and pen-wipers, sat in her quaint little...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 9 MR AND MRS BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION Betaking himself straight homeward, Mr Boffin, without further let or hindrance, arrived at the Bower, and gave Mrs...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 3 ANOTHER MAN As the disappearing skirts of the ladies ascended the Veneering staircase, Mortimer, following them forth from the dining-room, turned into a...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 5 BOFFIN'S BOWER Over against a London house, a corner house not far from Cavendish Square, a man with a wooden leg had sat for some years, with...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1 OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1 SETTING TRAPS Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 9 SOMEBODY BECOMES THE SUBJECT OF A PREDICTION '"We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our sister out...