Chapter 22 THE PROCESSIONBEFORE Hester Prynne could call together her thoughts, and consider what was practicable to be done in this new and startling...
Chapter 23 THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER THE eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelli...
IT is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for...
THE sale was due to be held on the 16th. An interval of one day had been left between the viewing and the sale in order to give the upholsterers enoug...
All the famous names from the world of fashionable vice were there. They were being slyly observed by a number of society ladies who had again used th...
TWO days later, the sale was completely over. It had realized one hundred and fifty thousand francs. The creditors had divided two thirds among themse...
A CONSIDERABLE time elapsed without my hearing a word about Armand, but on the other hand the subject of Marguerite had come up a great deal. I do not...
I FOUND Armand in bed. When he saw me, he held out his hand. It was hot. 'You have a temperature, ' I said. 'It won't come to anything...
ILLNESSES like the one to which Armand had succumbed have at least this much to be said for them: they either kill you at once or let themselves be co...
HOWEVER (Armand went on after a pause), though I realized full well that I was still in love, I felt stronger than I had before and, in my desire to b...