CHAPTER I - Chirp the First THE kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them...

by Henry James CHAPTER I "They've got him for life!" I said to myself that evening on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory o...

by Richard Harding Davis THE CONSUL For over forty years, in one part of the world or another, old man Marshall had, served his country as a United States consul. He had been appointed by Lincoln. F...

By Vachel Lindsay Introduction. By Harriet Monroe When `Poetry, A Magazine of Verse', was first published in Chicago in the autumn of 1912, an Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay, was, quite appropriately, ...

by Mary Roberts Rinehart I I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rathe...

by Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton CHAPTER I. I am a native of , in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished ...

William Shakespeare ACT I. SCENE 1 A hall in the DUKE'S palace Enter the DUKE OF EPHESUS, AEGEON, the Merchant of Syracuse, GAOLER, OFFICERS, and other ATTENDANTS AEGEON. Proceed, Solinus, to procure ...

by G.K.Chesterton CHAPTER 1 The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in Engl...

(Or Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South) Edgar B. P. Darlington CHAPTER I UNDER CANVAS AGAIN "I reckon the fellows will turn out to see us tomorrow night, Teddy." "I hope so, Phil. We'll show them...

Edgar B.P. Darlington CHAPTER I THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS "I say, Phil, I can do that." "Do what, Teddy?" "A cartwheel in the air like that fellow is doing in the picture on the billboard there." "Oh, ps...