Silas Marner
Part 1, Chapter 11
by George Eliot
The reader is introduced some additional members of the Lammeter family. Godfrey makes a request of Nancy at the Christmas dance.
The reader is introduced some additional members of the Lammeter family. Godfrey makes a request of Nancy at the Christmas dance.
A Presbyterian minister gives an authentic account to Jack the narrator.
Catherine receives a note from Isabella, bidding her to visit as soon as possible. Catherine goes to Isabella’s and discovers that her friend is engaged to James. Catherine receives interesting news from John.
In order to weather the elements, Hump and Maud make use of their available materials.
When she wakes, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, in the care of Mr. Lloyd, the family’s kind apothecary. Bessie is also present, and she expresses disapproval of her mistress’s treatment of Jane. Jane remains in bed the following day, and Bessie sings her a song. Mr. Lloyd speaks with Jane about her life at Gateshead, and he suggests to Jane’s aunt that the girl be sent away to school, where she might find happiness. Jane is cautiously excited at the possibility of leaving Gateshead.Soon after her own reflections on the past in the red-room, Jane learns more of her history when she overhears a conversation between Bessie and Miss Abbott. Jane’s mother was a member of the wealthy Reed family, which strongly disapproved of Jane’s father, an impoverished clergyman. When they married, Jane’s wealthy maternal grandfather wrote his daughter out of his will. Not long after Jane was born, Jane’s parents died from typhus, which Jane’s father contracted while caring for the poor.
Captain Larsen's, having become more possesive of Maud, excludes the crew from his table. Interference by the captain's brother, Death, results in monetary losses for the Ghost.
A hare deceives many crocodiles, then mocks them, and the crocodiles pull out all of his fur in retaliation. The hare is suffering, and a fairy man comes along and tells him to bathe in the sea and lie in the sun to recover his fur, but the man was spiteful and his advice only increases the hare’s pain. A kind fairy man comes by and listens to the hare’s sad story, telling him his pain is the consequence of his behavior to the crocodiles. The hare agrees and repents, and the kind man tells him how to heal his wounds and regrow his fur. The hare correctly predicts that the princess the other men were off seeking would deny them and instead choose the kind man for her husband.
After the passage of many years Newland, now widowed, travels to Paris with his son. Newland declines an invitation from his son.
The small boat carrying Tom, Trelawney, Smollett, Livesey, Abraham, and the provisions is quite heavy. When a mutineer sends a cannonball at them, the ship sinks and they are forced to wade ashore.
More on the history of number systems.
When the Yankee and Sandy’s daughter, Hello, falls ill again, they spend weeks nursing her to health in France. The Yankee decides to travel back to England leaving his family in France. The Yankee arrives in Camelot to find it desolate.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. The Toyman is in bad humor and Marmaduke is able to cheer him up his friendship.
The weather changes Ribault’s plans. Menendez takes advantage of a land route. Rene saves others, but isn't safe himself.
Kenyon and Hilda come upon a shrine and, after becoming lost in thought, notice that the shrine's lamp goes out for the first time in centuries.
Archer visits May in Florida, but finds his mind wondering as he talks with her.
The Ghost, sets sail one last time, headed towards the coast of Japan. After a period of rough weather, the exhausted couple find themselves in more familiar seas. Hump and Maud finally admit their true feelings.
How Siegfried turned war into feasting.
Pip continues to become acquainted with the Wemmick's, Pockets', and Jaggers.
John Adams' fourth Annual Address to Congress (now known as the State of the Union Address).
Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters stay at Norland for a few months, because it is difficult to find a new home which they can afford with their small income. Edward and his relationship with the family is described.
Alice, bored by her sister's reading, follows a passing rabbit down a hole.
Archer pays a visit to the Countess at her home, where they discuss the many difficulties of life in New York.
The author explains how he described Flatland to the king of Lifeland.
Polynesia gives word to Gub-Gub before Prince Bumpo pays a visit to Doctor Dolittle. After the doctor fulfills his promise, Prince Bumpo prepares a ship for the parting doctor. Doctor Dolittle and the animals head back to Puddleby.