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that I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines Icould draw across her at the full, and the number of perpendicular lineswith which I could intersect them.” He added in his inward and ponderingmanner, as he looked at the moon, “It was twenty either way, I remember,and the twentieth was difficult to sq... | 1Dickens |
the echoes about which you have your theory.”“Not a theory; it was a fancy.”“A fancy, then, my wise pet,” said Mr. Lorry, patting her hand. “Theyare very numerous and very loud, though, are they not? Only hear them!”Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody’slife, footsteps not easily made ... | 1Dickens |
a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and steeling theheart. Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing howwarped and perverted all things good by nature were become. The maidenlybosom bared to this, the pretty almost-child’s head thus distracted, thedelicate foot mincing in this slou... | 1Dickens |
comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when thepause was broken which ensued upon my sister’s recital, and in whichpause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with“Yet,” said Mr. Pumblechook, leading the company gently back to thetheme from which they had strayed, “Pork—regar... | 1Dickens |
saw inscribed as his “Little Sainte Guillotine”--for the great sharpfemale was by that time popularly canonised. His shop was shut and hewas not there, which was a relief to Lucie, and left her quite alone.But, he was not far off, for presently she heard a troubled movementand a shouting coming along, which filled her ... | 1Dickens |
I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table.Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the bedbeside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle.Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left in darkness.How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not ... | 2Doyle |
to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was soeffectually done (the Swab family having considerable politicalinfluence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and thenit was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a whitehat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a... | 1Dickens |
she does not carry it about with her.”“Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But I aminclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, and they liketo do their own secreting. Why should she hand it over to anyone else?She could trust her own guardianship, but she could not tell whatindirec... | 2Doyle |
him on the landing outside his door, holding a light over thestair-rail to light us downstairs. Looking back at him, I thought ofthe first night of his return, when our positions were reversed, andwhen I little supposed my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious atparting from him as it was now.Old Barley was growling... | 1Dickens |
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However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, andbegged the Mouse to tell them something more."You promised to tell me your history, you know," said Alice, "and whyit is you hate--C and D," she added in a whisper, half afraid that itwould be offended again."Mine is a long and sad tale!" said the Mous... | 0Caroll |
smile, “Dear papa and mamma, I am very sorry to leave you both, and toleave my pretty sister; but I am called, and I must go!” those were nottears all of agony that wetted his young mother’s cheek, as the spiritdeparted from her embrace that had been entrusted to it. Suffer them andforbid them not. They see my Father’s... | 1Dickens |
may expect that more from a man who is alone than from one who lives inthe bosom of his family.’“‘If I promise to keep a secret,’ said I, ‘you may absolutely dependupon my doing so.’“He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I hadnever seen so suspicious and questioning an eye.“‘Do you promise, the... | 2Doyle |
which interests me deeply.”“There’s nothing in it. I looked at it before,” said Lestrade. “‘Oct.4th, rooms 8_s_., breakfast 2_s_. 6_d_., cocktail 1_s_., lunch 2_s_.6_d_., glass sherry, 8_d_.’ I see nothing in that.”“Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the note,it is important also, or at least th... | 2Doyle |
for him to receive letters, for his bills were all paid in ready money,and he had no friends of any sort. ‘From India!’ said he as he took itup, ‘Pondicherry postmark! What can this be?’ Opening it hurriedly, outthere jumped five little dried orange pips, which pattered down uponhis plate. I began to laugh at this, but... | 2Doyle |
compose her figure and the dress she had torn. It was then that I knewher condition to be that of one in whom the first expectations of beinga mother have arisen; and it was then that I lost the little hope I had“‘Is she dead?’ asked the Marquis, whom I will still describe as theelder brother, coming booted into the ro... | 1Dickens |
receive him, with every refinement of manner known to the time, and withall the engaging graces and courtesies of life.So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners andgloom, so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor andmisery through which they were seen, that Charles Darnay seemed t... | 1Dickens |
“Then, Mr. Pip, one of those two prisoners sat behind you tonight. Isaw him over your shoulder.”“Steady!” I thought. I asked him then, “Which of the two do you suppose“The one who had been mauled,” he answered readily, “and I’ll swear Isaw him! The more I think of him, the more certain I am of him.”“This is very curiou... | 1Dickens |
“Let us shudder too. We may know what it is.”“It will seem nothing to you. Such whims are only impressive as weoriginate them, I think; they are not to be communicated. I havesometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have madethe echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are comingby-and-by... | 1Dickens |
Queen so soon—and I’ll tell you what it is, your majesty,” she went onin a severe tone (she was always rather fond of scolding herself),“it’ll never do for you to be lolling about on the grass like that!Queens have to be dignified, you know!”So she got up and walked about—rather stiffly just at first, as she wasafraid ... | 0Caroll |
do it, and that it had never been done.The happiness of his own chosen English home, the necessity of beingalways actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of the timewhich had followed on one another so fast, that the events of this weekannihilated the immature plans of last week, and the events of the weekfol... | 1Dickens |
these people should know there is such a man as I here; it is a soundprecaution, and may be a necessary preparation. But care, care, care!Let me think it out!”Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took aturn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thoughtin his mind to its poss... | 1Dickens |
"Good afternoon," said Scrooge."I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you soresolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which Ihave been a party. But I have made the trial inhomage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmashumour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!""Good afternoon!" said Scrooge."And A Happy New Y... | 1Dickens |
be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the house for“‘That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you havestolen,’ said I. And then, realising the dreadful position in which Iwas placed, I implored him to remember that not only my honour but thatof one who was far greater than I was at st... | 2Doyle |
Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old at the time ofmy mother’s re-marriage. She had a considerable sum of money—not lessthan £ 1000 a year—and this she bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirelywhile we resided with him, with a provision that a certain annual sumshould be allowed to each of us in the event of... | 2Doyle |
fowls, you have no idea. You shall have some eggs, and judge foryourself. I say, Mr. Pip!” calling me back, and speaking low. “This isaltogether a Walworth sentiment, please.”“I understand. Not to be mentioned in Little Britain,” said I.Wemmick nodded. “After what you let out the other day, Mr. Jaggers mayas well not k... | 1Dickens |
principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhapssecond-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait,Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep. The arrival of his breakfast roused him,and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chai... | 1Dickens |
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your advice upon the subject. We guard our secret very jealously,however, and if it once became known that we had hydraulic engineerscoming to our little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, ifthe facts came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting thesefields and carrying out our plans. That is why ... | 2Doyle |
place where our red-headed client carried on his business. SherlockHolmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked itall over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids. Then hewalked slowly up the street, and then down again to the corner, stilllooking keenly at the houses. Finally he ret... | 2Doyle |
“It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and thenoble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink upon the outerside of his right little finger,” remarked Holmes as he folded up the“He says four o’clock. It is three now. He will be here in an hour.”“Then I have just time, with your assistan... | 2Doyle |
intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Atouch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight tremor of his extendedhand, recalled Holmes’ surmise as to his habits. His rusty blackfrock-coat was buttoned right up in front, with the collar turned up,and his lank wrists protruded from his sleeves w... | 2Doyle |
common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But really Ithink that we are wandering rather far from the point.”“Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less cheerfulframe of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do on re-entering“I saw her in conversation with her maid.”“And who is her mai... | 2Doyle |
been hailed and stopped, both steamers were drifting away from us, andwe were rising and falling in a troubled wake of water. The look-outwas kept, long after all was still again and the two steamers weregone; but everybody knew that it was hopeless now.At length we gave it up, and pulled under the shore towards the ta... | 1Dickens |
“I do not quite understand,” returned the uncle, sipping his coffee.“Dare I ask you to explain?”“I believe that if you were not in disgrace with the Court, and had notbeen overshadowed by that cloud for years past, a letter de cachet wouldhave sent me to some fortress indefinitely.”“It is possible,” said the uncle, wit... | 1Dickens |
heart--if it ever had been there--if it ever could be there--I could notnow touch this honoured hand.”He laid his own upon it as he spoke.“No, dear Doctor Manette. Like you, a voluntary exile from France; likeyou, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and miseries; likeyou, striving to live away from it by m... | 1Dickens |
it ran away when it saw mine coming!""How do you like the Queen?" said the Cat in a low voice."Not at all," said Alice: "she's so extremely----" Just then she noticedthat the Queen was close behind her listening: so she went on,"----likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game."The Queen smiled and pa... | 0Caroll |
“I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he.“It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on themeshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”“I’ll eat my breakfast afore they’re the death of me,” said he. “I’d dothat, if I was going to be strung up to that there gallows as there isover there, directly a... | 1Dickens |
that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child theinheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, byrearing her in the belief that her father was dead--No, don’t kneel! InHeaven’s name why should you kneel to me!”“For the truth. O dear, good, compassionate sir, for the truth!”“A--a matter... | 1Dickens |
the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secretburden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a greatpunishment. The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe—Inever thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of thehousekeeping property as his—united to the n... | 1Dickens |
“Do you often go to see him--”“Shave? Always. Every day. What a barber! You have seen him at work?”“Go and see him when he has a good batch. Figure this to yourself,citizen; he shaved the sixty-three to-day, in less than two pipes! Lessthan two pipes. Word of honour!”As the grinning little man held out the pipe he was ... | 1Dickens |
no reason to be ashamed of it. I wished him to help me. I believed that if I had an interview I could gain his help, so I asked him to meet me.” “But why at such an hour?” “Because I had only just learned that he was going to London next day and might be away for months. There were reason... | 2Doyle |
Lorry closing the little procession. They had not traversed many stepsof the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof andround at the walls.“You remember the place, my father? You remember coming up here?”“What did you say?”But, before she could repeat the question, he murmured an answer as ifshe had... | 1Dickens |
Betimes in the morning I was up and out. It was too early yet to go toMiss Havisham’s, so I loitered into the country on Miss Havisham’s sideof town,—which was not Joe’s side; I could go there to-morrow,—thinkingabout my patroness, and painting brilliant pictures of her plans forShe had adopted Estella, she had as good... | 1Dickens |
before the Tribunal. He has not received the notice yet, but I knowthat he will presently be summoned for to-morrow, and removed to theConciergerie; I have timely information. You are not afraid?”She could scarcely answer, “I trust in you.”“Do so, implicitly. Your suspense is nearly ended, my darling; he shallbe restor... | 1Dickens |
“I assure you,” returned Mr. Stryver, in the friendliest way, “that Iam sorry for it on your account, and sorry for it on the poor father’saccount. I know this must always be a sore subject with the family; letus say no more about it.”“I don’t understand you,” said Mr. Lorry.“I dare say not,” rejoined Stryver, nodding ... | 1Dickens |
trouble you, Madame Defarge wishes to see those whom she has the powerto protect at such times, to the end that she may know them--that shemay identify them. I believe,” said Mr. Lorry, rather halting in hisreassuring words, as the stony manner of all the three impressed itselfupon him more and more, “I state the case,... | 1Dickens |
not think that it is probable that I shall use the carriage to-night.”Lestrade laughed indulgently. “You have, no doubt, already formed yourconclusions from the newspapers,” he said. “The case is as plain as apikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes. Still,of course, one can’t refuse a lady, and ... | 2Doyle |
grass at her feet—and the black shadows of the forest behind—all thisshe took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, sheleant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in ahalf dream, to the melancholy music of the song.“But the tune _isn’t_ his own invention,” she said to herself: “it’s... | 0Caroll |
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K three times repeated. There was nothing else save the five driedpips. What could be the reason of his overpowering terror? I left thebreakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down withan old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand,and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the... | 2Doyle |
Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it wouldbe as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While shewas trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off thefire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach atthe Duchess and the baby--the fire-irons ca... | 0Caroll |
“But you! You are police, are you not? You have killed GiuseppeGorgiano. Is it not so?”“We are police, madam.”She looked round into the shadows of the room.“But where, then, is Gennaro?” she asked. “He is my husband, GennaroLucca. I am Emilia Lucca, and we are both from New York. Where isGennaro? He called me this mome... | 2Doyle |
gentleman, it never will be. Now, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, how slowShe was at his elbow when he addressed her, putting a dish upon thetable. As she withdrew her hands from it, she fell back a step or two,nervously muttering some excuse. And a certain action of her fingers,as she spoke, arrested my attention.“What’s ... | 1Dickens |
to talk to him. Yes, my buck!""It's hanging there now," replied the boy."Is it?" said Scrooge. "Go and buy it.""Walk-ER!" exclaimed the boy."No, no," said Scrooge, "I am in earnest. Go and buyit, and tell 'em to bring it here, that I may give them thedirection where to take it. Come back with the man, andI'll give you ... | 1Dickens |
but that, in the moment of his laying his hand on his cloak to identifyhim, that villain had staggered up and staggered back, and they hadboth gone overboard together, when the sudden wrenching of him(Magwitch) out of our boat, and the endeavour of his captor to keep himin it, had capsized us. He told me in a whisper t... | 1Dickens |
dare say, to know that I had it.”“That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I haveindicated. I thank you, Darnay. I may use that freedom with your name?”“I think so, Carton, by this time.”They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minuteafterwards, he was, to all outward appearance, ... | 1Dickens |
hat to give his spikes free play, “he’s a tradesman.”“What’s his goods, father?” asked the brisk Young Jerry.“His goods,” said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, “is abranch of Scientific goods.”“Persons’ bodies, ain’t it, father?” asked the lively boy.“I believe it is something of that sort,” said Mr. Cr... | 1Dickens |
beyond the fact that I was falling very ill. The late stress upon mehad enabled me to put off illness, but not to put it away; I knew thatit was coming on me now, and I knew very little else, and was evencareless as to that.For a day or two, I lay on the sofa, or on the floor,—anywhere,according as I happened to sink d... | 1Dickens |
see her when the chances served, and on that possibility she would havewaited out the day, seven days a week.These occupations brought her round to the December month, wherein herfather walked among the terrors with a steady head. On a lightly-snowingafternoon she arrived at the usual corner. It was a day of some wildr... | 1Dickens |
Pocket should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to readwith him. That did not extend to me, she told me in a gush of love andconfidence (at that time, I had known her something less than fiveminutes); if they were all like Me, it would be quite another thing.“But dear Mrs. Pocket,” said Mrs. Coiler, “after ... | 1Dickens |
heartily glad when Herbert left us for the City.I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this wasall my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would havebeen easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper withhim; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.“Us two... | 1Dickens |
nature of the case must be done without his knowledge, I could show you“Why must it be done without his knowledge?” she asked, settling herhands upon her stick, that she might regard me the more attentively.“Because,” said I, “I began the service myself, more than two yearsago, without his knowledge, and I don’t want t... | 1Dickens |
not going to do _that_ in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "andsee whether it's marked '_poison_' or not;" for she had read severalnice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up bywild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they _would_ notremember the simple rules their friends h... | 0Caroll |
“The sun was shining—”Here Alice ventured to interrupt him. “If it’s _very_ long,” she said,as politely as she could, “would you please tell me first which road—”Tweedledee smiled gently, and began again:“The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might:He did his very best to make The billows smooth an... | 0Caroll |
hot upon it as that comes to; I say yes, and I shall expect you to lookin to-night. Good morning.”Then Mr. Stryver turned and burst out of the Bank, causing such aconcussion of air on his passage through, that to stand up against itbowing behind the two counters, required the utmost remaining strengthof the two ancient... | 1Dickens |
not to think, the more he thought.Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. Every time he resolvedwithin himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream, hismind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its firstposition, and presented the same problem to be worked all through,"Was it a dream or not?"Sc... | 1Dickens |
what she did, in time to check herself and go back. It was dreadful togo in at the door again; but, she did go in, and even went near it, toget the bonnet and other things that she must wear. These she put on,out on the staircase, first shutting and locking the door and takingaway the key. She then sat down on the stai... | 1Dickens |
“That is my name.—There is nothing the matter?”“Nothing the matter,” returned the voice. And the man came on.I stood with my lamp held out over the stair-rail, and he came slowlywithin its light. It was a shaded lamp, to shine upon a book, and itscircle of light was very contracted; so that he was in it for a mereinsta... | 1Dickens |
better guide than I. Good-bye, and never hesitate night or day to send for me if I can be of service.” The wheels died away down the drive while Sir Henry and I turned into the hall, and the door clanged heavily behind us. It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and ... | 2Doyle |
flapped and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was thematter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and flutteredoff among the others.“‘Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?’ says she.“‘Well,’ said I, ‘you said you’d give me one for Christmas, and I wasfeeling which was the fattest.’“‘Oh,... | 2Doyle |
one unsettled manner, and going through one round of observances withhis pipe and his negro-head and his jackknife and his pack of cards,and what not, as if it were all put down for him on a slate,—I say hischair remaining where it had stood, Herbert unconsciously took it, butnext moment started out of it, pushed it aw... | 1Dickens |
is most improper—most outrageous. I must insist upon some explanation.”He swelled and puffed in his anger.“Pray sit down, Mr. Scott Eccles,” said Holmes in a soothing voice.“May I ask, in the first place, why you came to me at all?”“Well, sir, it did not appear to be a matter which concerned thepolice, and yet, when yo... | 2Doyle |
born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends. Even when Iwas taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to makethem like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have thefree use of my limbs.Joe and I going to chur... | 1Dickens |
was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term. I sawin this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me. Sending herout to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her withthe malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers,and that all who staked upon that cast ... | 1Dickens |
broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague v... | 2Doyle |
actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a _danseuse_at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom for some years.There are no further particulars, and the whole case is in your handsnow—so far as it has been set forth in the public press.”“And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I... | 2Doyle |
waiting for the tenant to return. So you actually thought that I “I did not know who you were, but I was determined to find out.” “Excellent, Watson! And how did you localise me? You saw me, perhaps, on the night of the convict hunt, when I was so imprudent as to allow the moon to rise behind ... | 2Doyle |
effort to move. Lestrade thrust his brandy-flask between the baronet’s teeth, and two frightened eyes were looking up at us. “My God!” he whispered. “What was it? What, in heaven’s name, was “It’s dead, whatever it is,” said Holmes. “We’ve laid the family ghost once and forever.” In mere ... | 2Doyle |
somehows. Giv him by friends, I expect.”“I wish,” said the other, with a bitter curse upon the cold, “that I“Two one pound notes, or friends?”“Two one pound notes. I’d sell all the friends I ever had for one, andthink it a blessed good bargain. Well? So he says—?”“So he says,” resumed the convict I had recognised,—“it ... | 1Dickens |
disaster, Mr. Jaggers stood, according to his wont, before the fire.Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in thepockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post.The two brutal casts, always inseparable in my mind from the officialproceedings, seemed to be congestively consid... | 1Dickens |
instant, Miss Havisham said, “Let me see you two play cards; why haveyou not begun?” With that, we returned to her room, and sat down asbefore; I was beggared, as before; and again, as before, Miss Havishamwatched us all the time, directed my attention to Estella’s beauty, andmade me notice it the more by trying her je... | 1Dickens |
“The Langham Hotel will find me.”“Then may I recommend that you return there and be on hand in case Ishould want you? I have no desire to encourage false hopes, but you mayrest assured that all that can be done will be done for the safety ofLady Frances. I can say no more for the instant. I will leave you thiscard so t... | 2Doyle |
We shook hands, and he looked hard at me as long as he could see me. Iturned at the door, and he was still looking hard at me, while the twovile casts on the shelf seemed to be trying to get their eyelids open,and to force out of their swollen throats, “O, what a man he is!”Wemmick was out, and though he had been at hi... | 1Dickens |
feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. "Poor littlething!" said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle toit; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that itmight be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up inspite of all her coaxing.Hardly knowing wha... | 0Caroll |
less likely to succeed on that account.”“You have laid me under an obligation to you for life--in two senses,” said his late client, taking his hand.“I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good asanother man’s, I believe.”It clearly being incumbent on some one to say, “Much better,” Mr. Lorrysaid it... | 1Dickens |
depth, and overflowed the city to that point. Alarm-bells ringing, drumsbeating, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attackDeep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight greattowers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. Through the fire and throughthe smoke--in the fire and in the smoke, for th... | 1Dickens |
would return there, Garcia, who is the son of the former highestdignitary in San Pedro, was waiting with two trusty companions ofhumble station, all three fired with the same reasons for revenge. Hecould do little during the day, for Murillo took every precaution andnever went out save with his satellite Lucas, or Lope... | 2Doyle |
believeth in me, shall never die.”Now, that the streets were quiet, and the night wore on, the wordswere in the echoes of his feet, and were in the air. Perfectly calmand steady, he sometimes repeated them to himself as he walked; but, heThe night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to thewater as it s... | 1Dickens |
hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling passion. ‘Howcould anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with such attractions and“‘My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,’ said I. ‘Alittle French, a little German, music, and drawing—’“‘Tut, tut!’ he cried. ‘This is all quite beside the question.... | 2Doyle |
The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening,at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on theother side of him; then, upward at the speaker.“What did you say?”“You can bear a little more light?”“I must bear it, if you let it in.” (Laying the palest shadow of astress upon the... | 1Dickens |
any of the people within sight cared about my movements. The few whowere passing passed on their several ways, and the street was emptywhen I turned back into the Temple. Nobody had come out at the gatewith us, nobody went in at the gate with me. As I crossed by thefountain, I saw his lighted back windows looking brigh... | 1Dickens |
his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right. Wishing toembrace the present occasion of finding out whether in teaching Joe, Ishould have to begin quite at the beginning, I said, “Ah! But read the“The rest, eh, Pip?” said Joe, looking at it with a slow, searchingeye, “One, two, three. Why, here’s three Js,... | 1Dickens |
which earned his approval. He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes. Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a “Interesting, though elementary,” said he as... | 2Doyle |
down; but he would be up again in a moment, sponging himself ordrinking out of the water-bottle, with the greatest satisfaction inseconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an airand a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me atlast. He got heavily bruised, for I am sorry to record ... | 1Dickens |
thing. It has been supposed that the man to whom she gave her misplacedconfidence acted throughout in concert with her half-brother; that itwas a conspiracy between them; and that they shared the profits.”“I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” said I.“He may have been married already, and her cruel mo... | 1Dickens |
As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt inthem, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn youngfingers, and touched his lips.“Are you dying for him?” she whispered.“And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.”“O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?”“Hush! Yes, my poor sis... | 1Dickens |
unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not have been abetter fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rucastleexpressed a delight at the look of it, which seemed quite exaggeratedin its vehemence. They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, whichis a very large room, stretching along the ... | 2Doyle |
Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice beganto remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for herOf course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of thecountry she was going to travel through. “It’s something very likelearning geography,” thought Alice, as she stoo... | 0Caroll |
“Ah, what a pity! We so much regret it! But take courage; severalmembers of our society have been in secret, at first, and it has lastedbut a short time.” Then he added, raising his voice, “I grieve to informThere was a murmur of commiseration as Charles Darnay crossed the roomto a grated door where the gaoler awaited ... | 1Dickens |
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