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CHAPTER FIVE A BRIEF DETAIL OF HIS EDUCATION. Nothing could have more seasonably happened to confirm the good opinion which the colonel entertained of Ferdinand’s principles. His intentions towards th...

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE MONIMIA’S HONOUR IS PROTECTED BY THE INTERPOSITION OF HEAVEN. With that complacency and fortitude which were peculiar to herself, this hapless stranger resisted all those artful tem...

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Chapter LXXXI. Cardinal Mazarin as King. T he arrest produced no sensation, indeed was almost unknown, and scarcely interrupted the course of events. To the deputation it was formally announced that t...

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CHAPTER III He hurried to Svidrigaïlov’s. What he had to hope from that man he did not know. But that man had some hidden power over him. Having once recognised this, he could not rest, and now the ti...

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CHAPTER II “Ah these cigarettes!” Porfiry Petrovitch ejaculated at last, having lighted one. “They are pernicious, positively pernicious, and yet I can’t give them up! I cough, I begin to have ticklin...

PART VI CHAPTER I A strange period began for Raskolnikov: it was as though a fog had fallen upon him and wrapped him in a dreary solitude from which there was no escape. Recalling that period long aft...

Chapter II. A Nightly Patrol. I n ten minutes Mazarin and his party were traversing the street “Les Bons Enfants” behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly for the play of “Mirame,” and in which...

CHAPTER 41. DORA’S AUNTS At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their compliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his letter their best consideration,...

Chapter XLI. Paternal Affection. W hilst this terrible scene was passing at Lord de Winter’s, Athos, seated near his window, his elbow on the table and his head supported on his hand, was listening in...

CHAPTER V Lebeziatnikov looked perturbed. “I’ve come to you, Sofya Semyonovna,” he began. “Excuse me... I thought I should find you,” he said, addressing Raskolnikov suddenly, “that is, I didn’t mean ...

PART FIVE We made it. We created it. We brought it forth from the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only. We know not what we are saying. Our head is reeling. We look up...

CHAPTER IV Raskolnikov had been a vigorous and active champion of Sonia against Luzhin, although he had such a load of horror and anguish in his own heart. But having gone through so much in the morni...

CHAPTER III “Pyotr Petrovitch,” she cried, “protect me... you at least! Make this foolish woman understand that she can’t behave like this to a lady in misfortune... that there is a law for such thing...

CHAPTER XVII Mrs. Weston’s friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by knowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She...

CHAPTER XXXVIII. “C’est beaucoup que le jugement des hommes sur les actions humaines; tôt ou tard il devient efficace.”—GUIZOT. Sir James Chettam could not look with any satisfaction on Mr. Brooke’s n...

Chapter 9 After thinking about it, I decided it must be because I'd never been in a relationship—I was too lonely. Plus, those roommates' outrageous remarks had made me have those inappropriate though...

Chapter 4 On Friday, I was packing up to leave work as usual when a message popped up in our work group from our boss: "We're meeting with President Xie this weekend to discuss a cooperation deal. How...

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Chapter 12 She’d been extremely weak then—pale, gaunt, wearing a wig. We’d met at the sanatorium. I’d hesitated to see her, but it was our last meeting. After all, we were biological sisters. "You’re ...

CHAPTER II It would be difficult to explain exactly what could have originated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina Ivanovna’s disordered brain. Nearly ten of the twenty roubles, given by Ras...

CHAPTER XI IN THE STAR DRESSING ROOM A BRIEF pause followed Sybil’s unexpectedly dramatic statement. Then Inspector Lowry bowed gravely. “That is all, Miss Merivale,” he said, without looking at her. ...

PART V CHAPTER I The morning that followed the fateful interview with Dounia and her mother brought sobering influences to bear on Pyotr Petrovitch. Intensely unpleasant as it was, he was forced littl...

CHAPTER XXXIII. PHILADELPHIA AND GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1812. I will now resume my narrative. Notwithstanding the recent death of my father, and the loneliness of my widowed mother, three days was all ...

After living on Silent Reflection Peak for years, Shang Zhu knew exactly where its silence ended. He left the wooden house beneath trees older than Lingyun Sect itself. Each had developed a spirit—and...

CHAPTER VI When he remembered the scene afterwards, this is how Raskolnikov saw it. The noise behind the door increased, and suddenly the door was opened a little. “What is it?” cried Porfiry Petrovit...

CHAPTER V When next morning at eleven o’clock punctually Raskolnikov went into the department of the investigation of criminal causes and sent his name in to Porfiry Petrovitch, he was surprised at be...

CHAPTER IV Raskolnikov went straight to the house on the canal bank where Sonia lived. It was an old green house of three storeys. He found the porter and obtained from him vague directions as to the ...

CHAPTER III The fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected such an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never dreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could esca...

CHAPTER II It was nearly eight o’clock. The two young men hurried to Bakaleyev’s, to arrive before Luzhin. “Why, who was that?” asked Razumihin, as soon as they were in the street. “It was Svidrigaïlo...

PART IV CHAPTER I “Can this be still a dream?” Raskolnikov thought once more. He looked carefully and suspiciously at the unexpected visitor. “Svidrigaïlov! What nonsense! It can’t be!” he said at las...

CHAPTER VI “I don’t believe it, I can’t believe it!” repeated Razumihin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov’s arguments. They were by now approaching Bakaleyev’s lodgings, where Pulcheria Alex...

CHAPTER V Raskolnikov was already entering the room. He came in looking as though he had the utmost difficulty not to burst out laughing again. Behind him Razumihin strode in gawky and awkward, shamef...

CHAPTER IV At that moment the door was softly opened, and a young girl walked into the room, looking timidly about her. Everyone turned towards her with surprise and curiosity. At first sight, Raskoln...

CHAPTER III “He is well, quite well!” Zossimov cried cheerfully as they entered. He had come in ten minutes earlier and was sitting in the same place as before, on the sofa. Raskolnikov was sitting in...

CHAPTER II Razumihin waked up next morning at eight o’clock, troubled and serious. He found himself confronted with many new and unlooked-for perplexities. He had never expected that he would ever wak...

PART III CHAPTER I Raskolnikov got up, and sat down on the sofa. He waved his hand weakly to Razumihin to cut short the flow of warm and incoherent consolations he was addressing to his mother and sis...