CHAPTER XI A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such...
CHAPTER 4 "Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury." --Midsummer Night's Dream. The words were still in the mouth of the scout,...
CHAPTER VIII. 'It's my own Invention' After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no...
CHAPTER XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar School opened and Anne returned to her work, with fewer theories but considerably more experience. She had several new pupils, six- and seven- year-olds just venturing,...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk...
CHAPTER FIVE The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman I sat down on the very crest of the pass and took stock of my position. Behind me was the road climbing through a long cleft in the hills, which...
CHAPTER IX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN It was the sweetest, most mysterious- looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of...
I. KAFLI Part 1 The Early GIFT lífi MORELS "THE botn" tók til "Hell Row". Hell Row var blokk af thatched, bulging sumarhús sem stóð af Brookside á Greenhill Lane....
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH THE COLLAPSE OF THE PENITENT Part 1 Spring had held back that year until the dawn of May, and then spring and summer came with a rush together. Two days after this conversation...
CHAPTER LIX. The Bulletin. The Duc de Beaufort wrote to Athos. The letter destined for the living only reached the dead. God had changed the address. "MY DEAR COMTE," wrote the...