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Chapter XXXVIII. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin. T he cardinal rose, and advanced in haste to receive the queen of England. He showed the more respect to this queen, deprived of every mark of pomp and st...

Book V. Pro And Contra Chapter I. The Engagement Madame Hohlakov was again the first to meet Alyosha. She was flustered; something important had happened. Katerina Ivanovna’s hysterics had ended in a ...

Chapter XXXVII. Cromwell’s Letter. A t the very moment when the queen quitted the convent to go to the Palais Royal, a young man dismounted at the gate of this royal abode and announced to the guards ...

CHAPTER LXV I set out for Sussex—consult Mrs. Sagely—achieve an Interview with Narcissa—return to the Ship—we get clear of the Channel—I learn our Destination—we are chased by a large Ship—the company...

Chapter XXXVI. A Letter from Charles the First. T he reader must now cross the Seine with us and follow us to the door of the Carmelite Convent in the Rue Saint Jacques. It is eleven o’clock in the mo...

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Chapter XXXV. A Dinner in the Old Style. T he second interview between the former musketeers was not so formal and threatening as the first. Athos, with his superior understanding, wisely deemed that ...

Chapter XXXIV. On the Eve of Battle. R aoul was aroused from his sombre reflections by his host, who rushed into the apartment crying out, “The Spaniards! the Spaniards!” That cry was of such importan...

Chapter XXXIII. Grimaud Speaks. G rimaud was left alone with the executioner, who in a few moments opened his eyes. “Help, help,” he murmured; “oh, God! have I not a single friend in the world who wil...

Chapter XXXII. The Absolution. T his is what had taken place: We have seen that it was not of his own free will, but, on the contrary, very reluctantly, that the monk attended the wounded man who had ...

Chapter XXXI. The Monk. T wo men lay prone upon the ground, one bathed in blood and motionless, with his face toward the earth; this one was dead. The other leaned against a tree, supported there by t...

CHAPTER V THE BIRD HOUSE Ben Jolly it was, more sprightly, more jolly-looking than ever, for he waved his hand with a genial smile to the children staring down the side street after the whistler. The ...

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CHAPTER IX. As he was sitting at breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward was shown into the room. “I am so glad I have found you, Dorian,” he said gravely. “I called last night, and they told me you we...

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Chapter XXX. Skirmishing. T he halt at Noyon was but brief, every one there being wrapped in profound sleep. Raoul had desired to be awakened should Grimaud arrive, but Grimaud did not arrive. Doubtle...

Chapter XXIX. The Ferry across the Oise. W e hope that the reader has not quite forgotten the young traveler whom we left on the road to Flanders. In losing sight of his guardian, whom he had quitted,...

CHAPTER III While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the chamber she would put me in, and never let a...

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Chapter 1 I first met Ethan Zhou two weeks ago when I was looking for a place to live near campus. The reason I moved out of the dorm was simple: I'd had a huge falling-out with that weird roommate of...

Chapter XXVIII. The Place Royale. T hey proceeded silently to the centre of the Place, but as at this very moment the moon had just emerged from behind a cloud, they thought they might be observed if ...

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CHAPTER III THE “TAG” THE stage entrance of the Mirror Theater was on a sort of court or alley which ran at right angles from one of the side streets near Times Square. A high iron gateway which barre...

Chapter XXVII. The four old Friends prepare to meet again. W ell ,” said Porthos, seated in the courtyard of the Hotel de la Chevrette, to D’Artagnan, who, with a long and melancholy face, had returne...

PRELUDE. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, ha...

CHAPTER XI. But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. —BEN JONSON. L...

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CHAPTER LXXVI. To mercy, pity, peace, and love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight, Return their thankfulness. . . . . . . For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face; And L...

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...

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The aroma of breakfast woke Yin Xigui. He opened his eyes groggily. Sunlight already streamed through a gap in the curtains, spilling a patch of radiance across the sheets. The pillow beside him was e...

Chapter XXVI. The Rencontre. T hey rode on in this way for ten minutes. Suddenly two dark forms seemed to separate from the mass, advanced, grew in size, and as they loomed up larger and larger, assum...

Chapter XXV. An Adventure on the High Road. T he musketeers rode the whole length of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and of the road to Vincennes, and soon found themselves out of the town, then in a fores...

Chapter XXIV. The timely Arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris. A t Blois, D’Artagnan received the money paid to him by Mazarin for any future service he might render the cardinal. From Blois to Paris was a ...

Chapter XXIII. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort. M eanwhile time was passing on for the prisoner, as well as for those who were preparing his escape; only for him it passed mo...

Chapter XXII. Saint Denis. T he day had begun to break when Athos arose and dressed himself. It was plain, by a paleness still greater than usual, and by those traces which loss of sleep leaves on the...

Chapter XXI. The Abbé Scarron. T here was once in the Rue des Tournelles a house known by all the sedan chairmen and footmen of Paris, and yet, nevertheless, this house was neither that of a great lor...

Chapter XX. One of Marie Michon’s Adventures. W hilst these projects were being formed by the Duc de Beaufort and Grimaud, the Comte de la Fère and the Vicomte de Bragelonne were entering Paris by the...

Chapter XIX. Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described. I n half an hour La Ramee returned, full of glee, like most men who have eaten, and more especially drank to their heart’s con...