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CHAPTER XII. ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED Was the “poor Peter” of Cranford the Aga Jenkyns of Chunderabaddad, or was he not? As somebody says, that was the question. In my own home, whenever people had nothi...

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CHAPTER VI Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and—a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping right and left—he brought a wife with him. What she was, and where she was born, he never ...

CHAPTER XI. SAMUEL BROWN The next morning I met Lady Glenmire and Miss Pole setting out on a long walk to find some old woman who was famous in the neighbourhood for her skill in knitting woollen stoc...

Lemma XV. Si ab Ellipseos vel Hyperbolæ cujusvis umbilicis duobus S , H , ad punctum quodvis tertium V inflectantur rectæ duæ SV , HV , quarum una HV æqualis sit axi transverso figuræ, altera SV a per...

CHAPTER X. THE PANIC I think a series of circumstances dated from Signor Brunoni’s visit to Cranford, which seemed at the time connected in our minds with him, though I don’t know that he had anything...

CHAPTER IX. SIGNOR BRUNONI Soon after the events of which I gave an account in my last paper, I was summoned home by my father’s illness; and for a time I forgot, in anxiety about him, to wonder how m...

CHAPTER XXXIV For some days after that evening, Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He had an aversion to yielding so completely...

CHAPTER XXIII The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning—half frost, half drizzle—and temporary brooks crossed our path—gurgling from the uplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and l...

PART TWELVE It was when I read the first of the books I found in my house that I saw the word “I.” And when I understood this word, the book fell from my hands, and I wept, I who had never known tears...

CHAPTER VIII. “YOUR LADYSHIP” Early the next morning—directly after twelve—Miss Pole made her appearance at Miss Matty’s. Some very trifling piece of business was alleged as a reason for the call; but...

Chapter VII. Mitya’s Great Secret. Received With Hisses “Gentlemen,” he began, still in the same agitation, “I want to make a full confession: that money was my own .” The lawyers’ faces lengthened. T...

CHAPTER VII. VISITING One morning, as Miss Matty and I sat at our work—it was before twelve o’clock, and Miss Matty had not changed the cap with yellow ribbons that had been Miss Jenkyns’s best, and w...

CHAPTER VI. POOR PETER Poor Peter’s career lay before him rather pleasantly mapped out by kind friends, but Bonus Bernardus non videt omnia , in this map too. He was to win honours at the Shrewsbury S...

CHAPTER XIX The character of Mr. Lavement, his wife and daughter—some anecdotes of the family—the mother and daughter rivals—I am guilty of a mistake that gives me present satisfaction, but is attende...

CHAPTER V. OLD LETTERS I have often noticed that almost every one has his own individual small economies—careful habits of saving fractions of pennies in some one peculiar direction—any disturbance of...

CHAPTER XI We descry the Waggon—get into it—arrive at an inn—our Fellow Travellers described—a Mistake is committed by Strap, which produces strange things We travelled half-a-mile without exchanging ...

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CHAPTER IV. A VISIT TO AN OLD BACHELOR A few days after, a note came from Mr Holbrook, asking us—impartially asking both of us—in a formal, old-fashioned style, to spend a day at his house—a long June...

CHAPTER III. A LOVE AFFAIR OF LONG AGO I thought that probably my connection with Cranford would cease after Miss Jenkyns’s death; at least, that it would have to be kept up by correspondence, which b...

CHAPTER LXXXVI. “Le cœur se sature d’amour comme d’un sel divin qui le conserve; de là l’incorruptible adhérence de ceux qui se sont aimés dès l’aube de la vie, et la fraîcheur des vielles amours prol...

The hand on the birthing bed clenched the metal rail. Nails scraped across rust with a shriek. The white sheet slipped away, revealing a woman. She lay gray-faced and sweating, her lips cracked. Her b...

Chapter LX. Respect to Fallen Majesty. A s our fugitives approached the house, they found the ground cut up, as if a considerable body of horsemen had preceded them. Before the door the traces were ye...

The day the Tianxuan blades arrived, I held one in my hands for a long time. It looked similar to the WZ ‑ 16 blade, but the moment I touched it, I could tell it was different lighter, with a pale gol...

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CHAPTER II. THE CAPTAIN It was impossible to live a month at Cranford and not know the daily habits of each resident; and long before my visit was ended I knew much concerning the whole Brown trio. Th...

CHAPTER I. OUR SOCIETY In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow t...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “Oh, sir! Can you be Peter?” A magnificent family red silk umbrella Meekly going to her pasture Endeavouring to beguile her into conversation She brought the affrighted carter .....

Chapter 5 During the time I was dating Alex Liu, I had always presented myself as an ordinary person. I had planned to surprise him with my true identity someday, but fate had other plans. So even tho...

CHAPTER XXXVII. CHESAPEAKE DISTRICT—GOVERNOR BASSETT’S DEATH AND CHARACTER. The conference met in Philadelphia on April 20, 1815. Bishop Asbury was so exceedingly ill that the laboring oar fell upon B...

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. OUR SOCIETY CHAPTER II. THE CAPTAIN CHAPTER III. A LOVE AFFAIR OF LONG AGO CHAPTER IV. A VISIT TO AN OLD BACHELOR CHAPTER V. OLD LETTERS CHAPTER VI. POOR PETER CHAPTER VII. VISITIN...

Lady Li’s every word carried the same regret: if she had spoken sooner, perhaps none of this would have happened. Murong Qing did not know how to comfort her. Everyone interpreted guilt differently. W...

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XII. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proc...

XI. “LIKE SUMMER TEMPESTS CAME HIS TEARS” The Rat put out a neat little brown paw, gripped Toad firmly by the scruff of the neck, and gave a great hoist and a pull; and the water-logged Toad came up s...

X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding col...