Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved, but no one said a ...

“I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.” “Then, pray tell me what it is that you can ...

Moreover, the vivacity of the dense atmosphere reanimated my body by inflating my lungs with unaccustomed oxygen. It will be readily conceived that af...

Fogg, I suppose, is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama?” “Terribly anxious.” “You believe in this journey around the world, then?” “Absolutely....

And the name of "Hansbach" ("Hans Brook") was at once agreed upon. Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before. A...

In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but ...

The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were ea...

“‘Here we are, Jack,’ says he, touching me on the arm; ‘we’ll be as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and you can have the ke...

Could your patients spare you for a few hours?” “I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very absorbing.” “Then put on your hat and come. I ...

the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately. Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendsh...