YESTERDAY afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B. I di
1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have
I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s m
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke, On Conciliation with America, 1775 The country SETTING the scene for the
As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that
At ten o'clock on the eventful Thursday the Towers' carriage began its work. Molly was ready long before it made its first appearance, although it had been settled that she and the Miss Brownings we
To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that
SHORTLANDS The Brangwens went home to Beldover, the weddingparty gathered at Shortlands, the Criches’ home. It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope
SISTERS Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightlycoloured embroidery, and Gudru
In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade betwe
At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch’s Ponds. 1 One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald,
A jL JLfter the meeting in the Cabinet Room, I walked back to the Mansion with the President. It would be difficult; the stakes were high—of the highest and most substantial kind—but he knew he wo
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER l6, 1962, shortly after 9:00 o'clock. President Kennedy called and asked me to come to the White House. He said only that we were facing great trouble. Shortly afterward, i
सभी चाहते हैं की उनका प्यार सफल हो और प्यार की सफलता तो शादी पर ही खत्म होती है, जब प्रेमी और प्रेमिका दोनों एक दूसरे के लिए आजीवन संबंध में बंध जाते हैं. फिर उन्हें जुदा होने की बात ही नहीं होती है.
Oh, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while he fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy he brings From the green fields and from yon azure sky. Whate’er his mission
It was the last day of July. The long hot summer was drawing to a close; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields, and the aut
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct ev
5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as s
3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the g