Historical
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Pamela Sherwood

Fourteen When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall And she me caught in her arms long and small Therewithal sweetly did me kiss, And softly said, “Dear heart, ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Lara S. Ormiston

Chapter Thirteen The Bennets were seated at breakfast a day or two later when the servant brought in a note for Lydia. This damsel snatched it up eagerly. “Oh, look, ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Aileen Fish - Bridgethorpe Brides 01 - His Impassioned Proposal [Fish, Aileen]

Chapter Eight The weather turned cold the week following Lady Carrington’s party, and Jane saw little of Hannah or anyone else. Rain settled in, making the roads unsuitable for riding, ...
( Category: Clean & Wholesome December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Kim Fielding [Fielding, Kim]

Chapter Five FARIS WOKE up several times during the night. That was normal; he’d never quite outgrown his boyhood habit of light sleeping. What was unusual, however, was that tonight ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Aileen Fish [Fish, Aileen]

Chapter Three For the next two days, Northcotte managed to avoid running into Lady Miriam except at dinner when they all ate together. He had an uneasy feeling about her ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Suzanne Woods Fisher [Fisher, Suzanne Woods]

In the lower deck, a sudden change occurred. Instead of the dramatic movement that lashed passengers from side to side, hurling them out of beds, the movements became as gentle ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Joy Lynn Fielding [Fielding, Joy Lynn]

* * * * Jack was seated in Marco’s drawing room, reading the day’s newspaper. Marco and Gabriele had invited him to accompany them to the palazzo but neither had ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:L.A. Fields [Fields, L.A.]

1919: Walk I surmise pretty rapidly where my husband has disappeared to, leaving me with a tray of softening cake slices, each one falling to gelatinous pieces. I spot him ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * CHAPTER V. THE THREE AMERICAN NOVELS. The prospect of official station and emolument which Hawthorne mentions in one of those paragraphs from his Journals which I have ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-05 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * BOOK THIRD * * * XXXV The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

‘Need I wait, sir?’ said the servant after a dead silence. ‘That will do, William. No answer,’ said Barnet calmly. When the man had gone Barnet re-read the letter. Turning ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-03 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

When Alvina came downstairs at about four in the afternoon she found a package: a comb of carved bone, and a message from Madame: "To Miss Houghton, with kindest greetings ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XXXIV. MR. JUNIPER. Though there was an air of badinage, almost of tomfoolery, about Dolly when she spoke of her matrimonial prospects to her father,—as when she said that ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-04 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XXVII. HOW FUNDS WERE PROVIDED. Mr. Moss at this interview again pressed his loan of money upon poor Rachel. "You cannot get on, my dear young lady, in this ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-10 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

On the third morning she resolved that she would write to her husband. It was not fit, so she told herself, that she should leave his house without some further ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )