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THE MINUTE BOYS OF THE WYOMING VALLEY CHAPTER I. THE COMPANY I am not claiming even to myself that I, Jonathan Ogden, who was just turned sixteen years of age on the first day of June, in the year of ...

CHAPTER XXIV V alancy herself made Cissy ready for burial. No hands but hers should touch that pitiful, wasted little body. The old house was spotless on the day of the funeral. Barney Snaith was not ...

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CHAPTER XXIII O n one of Cissy’s wakeful nights, she told Valancy her poor little story. They were sitting by the open window. Cissy could not get her breath lying down that night. An inglorious gibbo...

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CHAPTER XXII T he next thing the Stirlings heard was that Valancy had been seen with Barney Snaith in a movie theatre in Port Lawrence and after it at supper in a Chinese restaurant there. This was qu...

CHAPTER XXI “W e’ll just sit here,” said Barney, “and if we think of anything worth while saying we’ll say it. Otherwise, not. Don’t imagine you’re bound to talk to me.” “John Foster says,” quoted Val...

MY LIFE IN SARAWAK BY THE RANEE OF SARAWAK PREFACE BY SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM, G.C.M.G. GOVERNOR OF THE STRAITS COLONY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND LATE CONSUL-GENERAL FOR BORNEO ...

CHAPTER LXII. He was a squyer of lowe degre, That loved the king’s daughter of Hungrie. — Old Romance . Will Ladislaw’s mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again, and forthwith quitting Middle...

Der ehrliche Dieb. Aufzeichnungen. E ines Morgens, als ich mich gerade anschickte, in den Dienst zu gehn, trat Agrafena, meine Köchin, Wäscherin und Haushälterin, zu mir ins Zimmer und begann zu meine...

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Chapter II. Dangerous Witnesses I do not know whether the witnesses for the defense and for the prosecution were separated into groups by the President, and whether it was arranged to call them in a c...

CHAPTER XX W hen Abel Gay paid Valancy her first month’s wages—which he did promptly, in bills reeking with the odour of tobacco and whiskey—Valancy went into Deerwood and spent every cent of it. She ...

CHAPTER XIX O f course, the Stirlings had not left the poor maniac alone all this time or refrained from heroic efforts to rescue her perishing soul and reputation. Uncle James, whose lawyer had helpe...

CHAPTER VI THE DIVIDED DANGER AS she swept to the door, her golden head held high, her black scarf floating from one round white arm, she encountered a newcomer, one Tony Clay. “Beg pardon!” he gasped...

CHAPTER XLI. By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. — Twelfth Night . The transactions referred to by Caleb Garth as having gone forward between Mr. Bulstrode and Mr. J...

CHAPTER XVIII V alancy was acquainted with Barney by now—well acquainted, it seemed, though she had spoken to him only a few times. But then she had felt just as well acquainted with him the first tim...

Chapter 6 Earlier that day, when Olivia had left, she'd said Ethan had "stayed by my side all night again" and that his "dark circles were terrible." I wanted to sneer. Last month, I'd caught a bad co...

INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW It chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when they came in front of the door...

Chapter 24 Sophia Miller’s eyes turned red instantly. She nodded. “I do.” “How long have you known him?” “For a long time.” “So you deliberately introduced him to me?” “Yes!” “Why?” “Because of Luke B...

Chapter IV. The Lost Dog Kolya leaned against the fence with an air of dignity, waiting for Alyosha to appear. Yes, he had long wanted to meet him. He had heard a great deal about him from the boys, b...

CHAPTER XVII W hen Valancy had lived for a week at Roaring Abel’s she felt as if years had separated her from her old life and all the people she had known in it. They were beginning to seem remote—dr...

CHAPTER XVI V alancy had walked out to Roaring Abel’s house on the Mistawis road under a sky of purple and amber, with a queer exhilaration and expectancy in her heart. Back there, behind her, her mot...

CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty ...

CHAPTER IV A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: “Miss Woodhouse—if...

CHAPTER XV “L et us be calm,” said Uncle Benjamin. “Let us be perfectly calm.” “Calm!” Mrs. Frederick wrung her hands. “How can I be calm—how could anybody be calm under such a disgrace as this?” “Why...

CHAPTER VII The Rejang River deserves a few words of explanation. It is a magnificent roadway to commerce in the interior, and once the head-hunting propensities of the tribes in its neighbourhood are...

CHAPTER XIV L ife cannot stop because tragedy enters it. Meals must be made ready though a son dies and porches must be repaired even if your only daughter is going out of her mind. Mrs. Frederick, in...

CHAPTER XIII U ncle Benjamin found he had reckoned without his host when he promised so airily to take Valancy to a doctor. Valancy would not go. Valancy laughed in his face. “Why on earth should I go...

Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son You can easily imagine what a father such a man could be and how he would bring up his children. His behavior as a father was exactly what might be expected. ...

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CHAPTER IV To what do these definitions of beauty amount? Not reckoning the thoroughly inaccurate definitions of beauty which fail to cover the conception of art, and which suppose beauty to consist e...

CHAPTER XII V alancy hurried home through the faint blue twilight—hurried too fast perhaps. The attack she had when she thankfully reached the shelter of her own room was the worst yet. It was really ...

CHAPTER XI M eanwhile the dinner in its earlier stages was dragging its slow length along true to Stirling form. The room was chilly, in spite of the calendar, and Aunt Alberta had the gas-logs lighte...

CHAPTER X “B less this food to our use and consecrate our lives to Thy service,” said Uncle Herbert briskly. Aunt Wellington frowned. She always considered Herbert’s graces entirely too short and “fli...

CHAPTER IX U ncle Herbert and Aunt Alberta’s silver wedding was delicately referred to among the Stirlings during the following weeks as “the time we first noticed poor Valancy was—a little— you under...

CHAPTER VIII V alancy did not sleep that night. She lay awake all through the long dark hours—thinking—thinking. She made a discovery that surprised her: she, who had been afraid of almost everything ...

CHAPTER VII T here was a rosebush on the little Stirling lawn, growing beside the gate. It was called “Doss’s rosebush.” Cousin Georgiana had given it to Valancy five years ago and Valancy had planted...

CHAPTER VI T he ordeal was not so dreadful, after all. Dr. Trent was as gruff and abrupt as usual, but he did not tell her her ailment was imaginary. After he had listened to her symptoms and asked a ...

CHAPTER V O f course she must buy the tea in Uncle Benjamin’s grocery-store. To buy it anywhere else was unthinkable. Yet Valancy hated to go to Uncle Benjamin’s store on her twenty-ninth birthday. Th...