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EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER XVIII Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs. Weston's fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For the present, he could not be spared, to his very great morti
EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER I Emma and Harriet had been walking together one morning, and, in Emma's opinion, had been talking enough of Mr. Elton for that day. She could not think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and s
EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER IV Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's
EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER VIII Frank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner waiting, it was not known at Hartfield; for Mrs. Weston was too anxious for his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse, to betray any imperf
EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER XI It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue
EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER XII One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emmaits being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 21 It was not only the November sleet, setting up a forbidding curtain before the mountains, turning the roadways into slipperiness on which a car would swing around and crash into poles, that kept Dorem
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 11 She found Campion downstairs in the deserted lobby. I saw you go upstairs, he said excitedly. Is he all right? When is the duel going to be? I don't know. She resented his speaking of i
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 6 Feeling good from the rosy wine at lunch, Nicole Diver folded her arms high enough for the artificial camellia on her shoulder to touch her cheek, and went out into her lovely grassless
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 2 We thought maybe you were in the plot, said Mrs. McKisco. She was a shabby-eyed, pretty young woman with a disheartening intensity. We don't know who's in the plot and who isn't. One man
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 9 It was a limpid black night, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. The horn of the car ahead was muffled by the resistance of the thick air. Brady's chauffeur drove slowly; the ta
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 22 Nicole pulled her dressing-gown closer around her and dismissed him briskly. Mystified she took a bath and dressed. By this time it was after ten and she called Rosemary but got no answ
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 19 Abe left from the Gare Saint Lazare at elevenhe stood alone under the fouled glass dome, relic of the seventies, era of the Crystal Palace; his hands, of that vague gray color that only
Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 17 It was a house hewn from the frame of Cardinal de Retz's palace in the Rue Monsieur, but once inside the door there was nothing of the past, nor of any present that Rosemary knew. The o
Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 5 The veranda of the central building was illuminated from open French windows, save where the black shadows of stripling walls and the fantastic shadows of iron chairs slithered down into
Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 8 During the next weeks Dick experienced a vast dissatisfaction. The pathological origin and mechanistic defeat of the affair left a flat and metallic taste. Nicole's emotions had been use
EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to have his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from his long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his
CHAPTER V I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston, said Mr. Knightley, of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing. A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?why so? I think they will neither of
EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER VII The very day of Mr. Elton's going to London produced a fresh occasion for Emma's services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home t
EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER XI Mr. Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma's power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures. The coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipa