CHAPTER 11. LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY 12 September.--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively...
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...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1 OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great...
CHAPTER I. The Prisoner. Part 1 Since Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period, the place which Aramis had held...
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...
SHE WAS CONSTANTLY HARASSED BY THE BOARD OF HER HOUSING CO-OPERATIVE, UNTIL SHE ONE DAY... THE DREAM OF PARADISE ...she wanted to be healed there, and... Private area I was looking for my Paradise out...
Chapter II SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips....
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death "Matthew--Matthew--what is the matter? Matthew, are you sick?" It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through...
CHAPTER 13. DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and...