CHAPTER I Toward the end of the summer of 1917 it was very hot in New York, and hotter still abo...
CHAPTER I Toward the end of the summer of 1917 it was very hot in New York, and hotter still aboard the transatlantic liner thrust between the piers.
CHAPTER I WHAT'S IN HEREDITY Honora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine.
CHAPTER I WHAT'S IN HEREDITY Honora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine.
CHAPTER I RAW MATERIAL Summer, intolerable summer, was upon the city at last.
CHAPTER I RAW MATERIAL Summer, intolerable summer, was upon the city at last.
ACT I SCENE: The library of ASHER PINDAR'S house in Foxon Falls, a New England village of s...
ACT I SCENE: The library of ASHER PINDAR'S house in Foxon Falls, a New England village of some three thousand souls, over the destinies of which the Pindars for three generations have pres...
BOOK I. Volume 2. CHAPTER VII THE OLYMPIAN ORDER Lying back in the chair of the Pullman an...
BOOK I. Volume 2. CHAPTER VII THE OLYMPIAN ORDER Lying back in the chair of the Pullman and gazing over the wide Hudson shining in the afternoon sun, Honora's imagination ran riot until the ...
Volume 5. CHAPTER XVI THE GUNS OF SUMTER Winter had vanished.
Volume 5. CHAPTER XVI THE GUNS OF SUMTER Winter had vanished.
CHAPTER XXVI THE PART HORATIO PLAYED The bailiff's business was quickly settled.
CHAPTER XXVI THE PART HORATIO PLAYED The bailiff's business was quickly settled.
CHAPTER VIII OVER THE WALL Dorothy treated me ill enough that spring.
CHAPTER VIII OVER THE WALL Dorothy treated me ill enough that spring.
CHAPTER XXIII THE CHOICE I Pondering over Alison's note, he suddenly recalled and verified so...
CHAPTER XXIII THE CHOICE I Pondering over Alison's note, he suddenly recalled and verified some phrases which had struck him that summer on reading Harnack's celebrated History of Dogma, and ar...
CHAPTER I INTRODUCING A CAPITALIST A cordon of blue regiments surrounded the city at first from...
CHAPTER I INTRODUCING A CAPITALIST A cordon of blue regiments surrounded the city at first from Carondelet to North St. Louis, like an open fan.
CHAPTER IX THE DIVINE DISCONTENT I It was the last Sunday in May, and in another week the annu...
CHAPTER IX THE DIVINE DISCONTENT I It was the last Sunday in May, and in another week the annual flight to the seashore and the mountains would have begun again.
Vauxhall CHAPTER XXXIV HIS GRACE MAKES ADVANCES The next morning I began casting about as t...
Vauxhall CHAPTER XXXIV HIS GRACE MAKES ADVANCES The next morning I began casting about as to what I should do next.
CHAPTER XVII RECONSTRUCTION I Life had indeed become complicated, paradoxical.
CHAPTER XVII RECONSTRUCTION I Life had indeed become complicated, paradoxical.
CHAPTER I LIONEL CARVEL, OF CARVEL HALL Lionel Carvel, Esq., of Carvel Hall, in the county of Q...
CHAPTER I LIONEL CARVEL, OF CARVEL HALL Lionel Carvel, Esq., of Carvel Hall, in the county of Queen Anne, was no inconsiderable man in his Lordship's province of Maryland, and indeed he was not u...
Volume 6. CHAPTER VI CLIO, OR THALIA?
Volume 6. CHAPTER VI CLIO, OR THALIA?
CHAPTER XX THE ARRAIGNMENT I Looking backward, Hodder perceived that he had really come to th...
CHAPTER XX THE ARRAIGNMENT I Looking backward, Hodder perceived that he had really come to the momentous decision of remaining at St. John's in the twilight of an evening when, on returning hom...
CHAPTER I First I am to write a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after Genera...
CHAPTER I First I am to write a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was.
CHAPTER V THE RECTOR HAS MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT I Sunday after Sunday Hodder looked upon the s...
CHAPTER V THE RECTOR HAS MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT I Sunday after Sunday Hodder looked upon the same picture, the winter light filtering through emblazoned windows, falling athwart stone pillars, a...
Volume 7. CHAPTER XI IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN All morning she had gazed on the shi...
Volume 7. CHAPTER XI IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN All morning she had gazed on the shining reaches of the Hudson, their colour deepening to blue as she neared the sea.
CHAPTER I ASCENDI Honora did not go back to Quicksands.
CHAPTER I ASCENDI Honora did not go back to Quicksands.
Volume 4. CHAPTER VII OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS In the religious cult of Gad and Meni, pra...
Volume 4. CHAPTER VII OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS In the religious cult of Gad and Meni, practised with such enthusiasm at Quicksands, the Saints' days were polo days, and the chief of all fes...
Volume 4. CHAPTER VII AN EXCURSION I am going ahead two years.
Volume 4. CHAPTER VII AN EXCURSION I am going ahead two years.
Volume 8. L. Farewell to Gordon's LI.
Volume 8. L. Farewell to Gordon's LI.
BOOK 2. CHAPTER IX When William Wetherell and Cynthia had reached the last turn in the road i...
BOOK 2. CHAPTER IX When William Wetherell and Cynthia had reached the last turn in the road in Northcutt's woods, quarter of a mile from Coniston, they met the nasal Mr. Samuel Price driving si...
CHAPTER XIII WINTERBOURNE I Hodder fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, awaking during the nigh...
CHAPTER XIII WINTERBOURNE I Hodder fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, awaking during the night at occasional intervals to recall chimerical dreams in which the events of the day before were ref...
CHAPTER XIX A MAN OF DESTINY I was picked up and thrown into the brigantine's long-boat with a ...
CHAPTER XIX A MAN OF DESTINY I was picked up and thrown into the brigantine's long-boat with a head and stomach full of salt water, and a heart as light as spray with the joy of it all.
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