CHAPTER 3 "Before these fields were shorn and till'd, Full to the brim our rivers flow'd; The melody of waters fill'd The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents...
CHAPTER 8 "They linger yet, Avengers of their native land."--Gray The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion. During the occurrence of the deadly encounter just...
CHAPTER IX The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that...
CHAPTER XXXI Tess wrote a most touching and urgent letter to her mother the very next day, and by the end of the week a response to her communication arrived in Joan Durbeyfield's wandering...
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...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XIX. The day was fresh, with a lively spring wind full of dust. All the old ladies in both families had got out their faded sables and yellowing ermines,...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXII. "A party for the Blenkers--the Blenkers?" Mr. Welland laid down his knife and fork and looked anxiously and incredulously across...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXI. Archer had been stunned by old Catherine's news. It was only natural that Madame Olenska should have hastened from Washington in response to...
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton XIII. Ez egy zsúfolt este Wallack a színházban. A darab volt a "Shaughraun," a Dion Boucicault a címszerepben és Harry Montague és Ada Dyas, mint...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 12 Charles need not have been anxious. Miss Schlegel had never heard of his mother's strange request. She was to hear of it in after years, when she had...