Chapter IX AT half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. They said their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited, in restless impatience. When it seemed to...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle...
CHAPTER 1. STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long,...
CHAPTER 27 Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more. He was crippled--he was as literally crippled as any wild animal which has lost its claws, or been torn out of its shell. He had been...
CHAPTER 8 Yet even by this deadly winter the germ of hope was not to be kept from sprouting in their hearts. It was just at this time that the great adventure befell Marija. The victim was Tamoszius...
CHAPTER IV MARTHA When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily....
CHAPTER 4 THE DEVOTED FRIEND One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER X. The next day he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. As was the custom in old-fashioned Episcopalian New York, she usually...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XVII. "Your cousin the Countess called on mother while you were away," Janey Archer announced to her brother on the evening of his...
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...