CHAPTER XLIII Results The rest of our story is soon told. George Shelby, interested, as any other young man might be, by the romance of the incident, no less than by feelings of humanity, was at the...
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 XIV As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed him that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter expressing her sorrow for Mrs....
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens POSTSCRIPT IN LIEU OF PREFACE When I devised this story, I foresaw the likelihood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose that I was at great pains...
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS CHAPTER FOUR THE DEATH OF THE CURATE It was on the sixth day of our imprisonment that I peeped for the last time, and presently found myself alone. Instead of...
Chapter 23 The Ebb-tide Runs THE coracle--as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her--was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but...
[bird screeches] [car alarm chirps] You lost? Lady, you look lost, hmm? [baby whimpers] You shouldn't be walking around alone. Don't you read the papers? What's in your bag,...