epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

CHAPTER XXXIV SHOXFORD Are there people who have never, in the course of anxious life, felt desire to be away, to fly away, from every thing, however good and dear ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Lynne Truss [Truss, Lynne]

The Married Man JIM is an attractive, charming and slightly dandy-ish American who has been living in London for twelve years with his New Yorker wife Elaine. He is a ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Stoppard, Tom [Stoppard, Tom]

MADDIE: Yes. WITHENSHAW: Well we seem to be a full complement except for Mr. French. Has anybody heard whether he’s coming? MRS. EBURY: I hope to God not. WITHENSHAW: Mr. ...

epub |eng | 1972-09-14 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO The Bedroom is blacked out, but music still comes from it—presumably the next track on the album.* Only a minute or two have passed. BONES appears from the ...

epub |eng | 1975-09-05 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO THE LIBRARY Apart from the bookcases, etc. the Library’s furniture includes CECILY’s desk, which is perhaps more like a counter forming three sides of a square. CECILY: To ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-23 | Author:Rashid Razaq & Hassan Blasim [Razaq, Rashid]

CARLOS: What is funny? LYDIA: You. CARLOS: Why? What I say? LYDIA: Oh. Nothing. It’s my birthday today. CARLOS: Happy Birthday! LYDIA: I’m fifty-s(ix.)…how old are y(ou.)…no. Don’t. It’s refreshing ...

epub |eng | 2006-09-05 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO Blackout and ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ by U2. Smash cut to Cambridge. Summer 1987. Garden and interior as before. Night, the interior in near-darkness. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-05 | Author:Luigi Pirandello & Tom Stoppard

ACT THREE The throne room is dark. The canvasses of the two paintings have been removed, and in their place, inside the frames, are Frida, dressed as “Countess of Tuscany,” ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * II.--GHENT--BRUGES. GHENT. (1840.) The Beguine College or Village is one of the most extraordinary sights that all Europe can show. On the confines of the town of ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

CHAPTER II . OTTILIA IN PARTICULAR. Some kind critic who peruses these writings will, doubtless, have the goodness to point out that the simile of the Mediterranean heath is applied ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)]

[There is a distant sound in the street of Chinese instruments being played. George. Hulloa, there's the procession coming along. Knox. What procession? George. It's a Manchu wedding. The amah ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER vii. A CALM. Cecilia took leave over night of the family, as she would not stay their rising in the morning: Mr Monckton, though certain not to sleep when ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER vi. A MYSTERY. For two days, in consequence of violent colds caught during the storm, Lady Honoria Pemberton and Cecilia were confined to their rooms. Cecilia, glad by solitude ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER viii A TETE A TETE. The two following days had neither event nor disturbance, except some little vexation occasioned by the behaviour of Sir Robert Floyer, who still appeared ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * ACT II. SCENE.--As before. LADY K.--Don't smoke, you naughty boy. I don't like it. Besides, it will encourage your brother-in-law to smoke. CLARENCE K.--Anything to oblige you, ...