CHAPTER XXIII. The King's Gratitude. The two men were on the point of darting towards each other when they suddenly and abruptly stopped, as a mutual recognition took place, and each uttered a...
CHAPTER XXXI. The Silver Dish. The journey passed off pretty well. Athos and his son traversed France at the rate of fifteen leagues per day; sometimes more, sometimes less, according to the intensity...
CHAPTER LV. Porthos's Will. At Pierrefonds everything was in mourning. The courts were deserted--the stables closed--the parterres neglected. In the basins, the fountains, formerly so...
CHAPTER XXIII. The King's Gratitude. The two men were on the point of darting towards each other when they suddenly and abruptly stopped, as a mutual recognition took place, and each uttered a...
CHAPTER X. The tattered man stood musing. "Well, he was reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he," said he finally in a little awestruck voice. "A...
Book the Third: The Track of a Storm Chapter XI. Dusk The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 30 Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and...