CHAPTER 23 Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it, when Sir William Lucas himself appeared, sent by...
CHAPTER 18 The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of...
CHAPTER V BUILDS A HOUSE-THE JOURNAL September 30, 1659.-I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island,...
CHAPTER 9 As he was sitting at breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward was shown into the room. "I am so glad I have found you, Dorian," he said gravely. "I called last...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXI. The small bright lawn stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea. The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus, and cast-iron...
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...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 1 One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister. HOWARDS END, TUESDAY. Dearest Meg, It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 6 We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or...
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 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...