CHAPTER 18 Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, and looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 5 BOFFIN'S BOWER Over against a London house, a corner house not far from Cavendish Square, a man with a wooden leg had sat for some years, with...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN RISES A LITTLE Mr and Mrs Lammle had come to breakfast with Mr and Mrs Boffin. They were not absolutely uninvited, but had pressed...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 16 AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION The estimable Twemlow, dressing himself in his lodgings over the stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, and hearing...
CHAPTER FOUR The Adventure of the Radical Candidate You may picture me driving that 40 h.p. car for all she was worth over the crisp moor roads on that shining May morning; glancing back at first over...
CHAPTER 30 Jurgis had breakfast with Ostrinski and his family, and then he went home to Elzbieta. He was no longer shy about it--when he went in, instead of saying all the things he had been planning...
CHAPTER 15 The beginning of these perplexing things was in the summer; and each time Ona would promise him with terror in her voice that it would not happen again--but in vain. Each crisis would leave...