CHAPTER VI ILL AND CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN When I came down to the ship I found it strangely removed. The forecastle, which lay before buried in sand, was heaved up at least six feet, and the stern, which...
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 XXIX "Now, who mid ye think I've heard news o' this morning?" said Dairyman Crick, as he sat down to breakfast next day, with a riddling gaze round upon the...
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 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...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2 STILL EDUCATIONAL The person of the house, doll's dressmaker and manufacturer of ornamental pincushions and pen-wipers, sat in her quaint little...
CHAPTER 21 That was the way they did it! There was not half an hour's warning--the works were closed! It had happened that way before, said the men, and it would happen that way forever. They...
CHAPTER X DICKON The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the...
CHAPTER 2 THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE "She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red...