Book the Second: The Golden Thread Chapter XXI. Echoing Footsteps A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 1 One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister. HOWARDS END, TUESDAY. Dearest Meg, It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 35 One speaks of the moods of spring, but the days that are her true children have only one mood; they are all full of the rising and dropping of winds, and the...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 30 Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of college, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as concerned him,...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 4 CUPID PROMPTED To use the cold language of the world, Mrs Alfred Lammle rapidly improved the acquaintance of Miss Podsnap. To use the warm language of...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 15 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN AT HIS WORST The breakfast table at Mr Boffin's was usually a very pleasant one, and was always presided over by Bella. As...
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...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 12 THE PASSING SHADOW The winds and tides rose and fell a certain number of times, the earth moved round the sun a certain number of times, the ship upon...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 13 SHOWING HOW THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN HELPED TO SCATTER DUST In all the first bewilderment of her wonder, the most bewilderingly wonderful thing to Bella was...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 11 EFFECT IS GIVEN TO THE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER'S DISCOVERY Mrs John Rokesmith sat at needlework in her neat little room, beside a basket of...