Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 14 STRONG OF PURPOSE The sexton-task of piling earth above John Harmon all night long, was not conducive to sound sleep; but Rokesmith had some broken...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 13 A SOLO AND A DUETT The wind was blowing so hard when the visitor came out at the shop-door into the darkness and dirt of Limehouse Hole, that it almost...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 15 THE WHOLE CASE SO FAR Bradley Headstone held fast by that other interview he was to have with Lizzie Hexam. In stipulating for it, he had been impelled...
CHAPTER IV As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the night before. He said "So long,...
CHAPTER II As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and...
CHAPTER 15. DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont. For a while sheer anger mastered me. It was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him,...
Chapter 15 The Man of the Island FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees. My eyes turned...
Book the Second: The Golden Thread Chapter XIV. The Honest Tradesman To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and...