Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing?
He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
Spikeboulder It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Cloakfire The secu...
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.
Burnrose Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfa...
Gemcrystal It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we dis...
The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly.
Llamavivid I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for t...
Scribealmond It was at this time that the meeting, or, rather gathering of the mem- bers of this inharmonious family took place in the cell of the el...