CHAPTER 9 In Mrs. Peniston's youth, fashion had returned to town in October; therefore on the tenth day of the month the blinds of her Fifth Avenue residence were drawn up, and the eyes of the...
CHAPTER II I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle...
-CHAPTER 12 'All around everything was still as far as the ear could reach. The mist of his feelings shifted between us, as if disturbed by his struggles, and in the rifts of the immaterial...
CHAPTER XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar School opened and Anne returned to her work, with fewer theories but considerably more experience. She had several new pupils, six- and seven- year-olds just venturing,...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 8 The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop so--quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its beginnings at Speyer,...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 11 The funeral was over. The carriages rolled away through the soft mud, and only the poor remained. They approached to the newly-dug shaft and looked their last...
Our Mutual Friend por Charles Dickens CAPÍTULO 5 MERCURY PROMPTING Fledgeby mereceu elogio de Alfred Lammle. Ele foi o pior act existente, com um único par de pernas. E o instinto (uma palavra que...
CHAPTER X Part 1 CLARA WHEN he was twenty-three years old, Paul sent in a landscape to the winter exhibition at Nottingham Castle. Miss Jordan had taken a good deal of interest in him, and invited him...