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CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE AFTER DIVERS UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS, HE HAS RECOURSE TO THE MATRIMONIAL NOOSE. Chancing to meet with one of his acquaintance at a certain coffee-house, the discourse turned upon the c...

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In the days that followed, Yin Xigui began going out far more often. At first it was once every two days; soon, he was leaving every other day. Before each trip, he reported to Sheng Linyou that he an...

CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR HIS ECLIPSE, AND GRADUAL DECLINATION. Misfortunes seldom come single; upon the back of this hue and cry he unluckily prescribed phlebotomy to a gentleman of some rank, who chanced t...

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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE ACQUIRES EMPLOYMENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF A LUCKY MISCARRIAGE. These ill offices, however, far from answering her purpose, had a quite contrary effect. For, in consequence of her invec...

CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER X...

CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight. The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Del...

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CHAPTER XVIII. The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of ...

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO REPAIRS TO THE METROPOLIS, AND ENROLS HIMSELF AMONG THE SONS OF PAEAN. Before this affair could be brought to a proper explanation, the season being almost ended, the ladies departed...

CHAPTER V. “Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such di...

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE TRIUMPHS OVER A MEDICAL RIVAL. Yet, in the midst of all this attention, his medical capacity seemed to be quite forgot. They respected his good breeding, were charmed with his voice,...

The Awakening of the Saw-horse The Saw-Horse, finding himself alive, seemed even more astonished than Tip. He rolled his knotty eyes from side to side, taking a first wondering view of the world in wh...

CHAPTER VIII. KENT, BRISTOL, AND NORTHAMPTON CIRCUITS. During the interval between the Baltimore and the Philadelphia Conference Bishops Asbury and Whatcoat spent some time on the Peninsula. They visi...

CHAPTER FIFTY FATHOM SHIFTS THE SCENE, AND APPEARS IN A NEW CHARACTER. Fathom’s expectations with respect to the fair orphan having thus proved abortive, he lost no time in bewailing his miscarriage, ...

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...

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT COUNT FATHOM UNMASKS HIS BATTERY; IS REPULSED; AND VARIES HIS OPERATIONS WITHOUT EFFECT. Every necessary preparation being made, Renaldo, accompanied by our adventurer, took the ro...

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN THE ART OF BORROWING FURTHER EXPLAINED, AND AN ACCOUNT OF A STRANGE PHENOMENON. In this manner did the artful incendiary work upon the passions of the credulous unsuspecting Hungar...

Chapter X. “It Was He Who Said That” Alyosha coming in told Ivan that a little over an hour ago Marya Kondratyevna had run to his rooms and informed him Smerdyakov had taken his own life. “I went in t...

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX OUR ADVENTURER BECOMES ABSOLUTE IN HIS POWER OVER THE PASSIONS OF HIS FRIEND, AND EFFECTS ONE HALF OF HIS AIM. Influenced by this dire mistake, the breast of those unhappy lovers beg...

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE RENALDO’S DISTRESS DEEPENS, AND FATHOM’S PLOT THICKENS. Such aggravated misfortune could not fail to affect his temper and deportment. The continual efforts he made to conceal his v...

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ANECDOTES OF POVERTY, AND EXPERIMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. His affairs being thus circumstanced, it is not to be supposed that he passed his time in tranqui...

Chapter 2 This apartment was our wedding house. I had personally chosen it and overseen the renovations. After we got married, I had gradually added little touches here and there until it became what ...

CHAPTER XLIX I receive a Challenge—the Consequence of it—the Quarrel being made up, am put in Arrest by the Care and Affection of Strap—but immediately released upon explaining my Affair—the Behaviour...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Modest Proposal This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoev...

Chapter 16 I had amnesia, but I was now certain why I’d chosen Ethan Green over Luke Brown. Luke Brown was toxic—extremely toxic. I angrily ate up all the breakfast, and firmly stated that I wouldn’t ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN HIS SUCCESS BEGETS A BLIND SECURITY, BY WHICH HE IS ONCE AGAIN WELL-NIGH ENTRAPPED IN HIS DULCINEA’S APARTMENT. In this manner did the crafty Fathom turn to account those ingratiating ...

Chapter 1 The Photo “What’s going on here?” A friend sent me photos of my best friend walking down the street with my husband, saying she’d run into them the previous day and was shocked. In the photo...

CHAPTER LVII. They numbered scarce eight summers when a name Rose on their souls and stirred such motions there As thrill the buds and shape their hidden frame At penetration of the quickening air: Hi...

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE FATHOM JUSTIFIES THE PROVERB, “WHAT’S BRED IN THE BONE WILL NEVER COME OUT OF THE FLESH.” Some circumstances of this conversation made a deep impression upon the mind of our advent...

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO AN UNEXPECTED RENCONTRE, AND A HAPPY REVOLUTION IN THE AFFAIRS OF OUR ADVENTURER. As she did not lodge within the precincts of this garrison, she was one day, after tea, conducted to...

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ONE QUARREL IS COMPROMISED, AND ANOTHER DECIDED BY UNUSUAL ARMS. Among other topics of conversation that were discussed at this genial meeting, Sir Mungo’s scheme was brought upon th...

CHAPTER FORTY HE CONTEMPLATES MAJESTY AND ITS SATELLITES IN ECLIPSE. This expedition being happily finished, General Macleaver put the whole army, navy, transports, and scene of action into a canvas b...

THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE OUR ADVENTURER IS MADE ACQUAINTED WITH A NEW SCENE OF LIFE. Just as he entered these mansions of misery, his ears were invaded with a hoars...

PART II. With the Author’s Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier, Ph.D. Department of English, Harvard University.

THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM by Tobias Smollett COMPLETE IN TWO PARTS

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT THE BITER IS BIT. Yet, he had no sooner committed his effects to the care of this triumvirate, than his fancy was visited with direful warnings, which produced cold sweats and pal...