-CHAPTER 7 'An outward-bound mail-boat had come in that afternoon, and the big dining-room of the hotel was more than half full of people with a-hundred-pounds-round-the-world tickets in their...
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 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...
CHAPTER I. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXVIII. "Ol-ol--howjer spell it, anyhow?" asked the tart young lady to whom Archer had pushed his wife's telegram across the...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 10 A MARRIAGE CONTRACT There is excitement in the Veneering mansion. The mature young lady is going to be married (powder and all) to the mature young...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in...
BOOK THREE TRIPLANETARY CHAPTER 13 THE HILL The heavy cruiser Chicago hung motionless in space, thousands of miles distant from the warring fleets of space-ships so viciously attacking and so...
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