CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard...
The White House April , 1974 Good evening. I have asked for this time tonight in order to announce my answer to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for additional Watergate tapes, and to...
CHAPTER V The haggling business, which had mainly depended on the horse, became disorganized forthwith. Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance. Durbeyfield was what was locally called a...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXIV. Newland Archer sat at the writing-table in his library in East Thirty-ninth Street. He had just got back from a big official reception for the...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 6 CUT ADRIFT The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 6 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO WORSE COMPANY It had come to pass that Mr Silas Wegg now rarely attended the minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, at...
BOOK TWO THE WORLD WAR CHAPTER 6 19--? "Theodore K. Kinnison!" a crisp, clear voice snapped from the speaker of an apparently cold, ordinary-enough-looking radio-television set. A...
CHAPTER 27 Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more. He was crippled--he was as literally crippled as any wild animal which has lost its claws, or been torn out of its shell. He had been...
CHAPTER 26 After the elections Jurgis stayed on in Packingtown and kept his job. The agitation to break up the police protection of criminals was continuing, and it seemed to him best to "lay...
CHAPTER 13 During this time that Jurgis was looking for work occurred the death of little Kristoforas, one of the children of Teta Elzbieta. Both Kristoforas and his brother, Juozapas, were cripples,...