Victor finishes his creature and is frightened by its appearance. He falls ill with a nervous fever after reuniting with Henry, who nurses him back to health and gives him a letter from Elizabeth.
The story of Fairer-Than-A-Fairy and the Rainbow Prince.
Mrs. Lincoln pays a visit to Elizabeth regarding a dress for the President's inauguration.
A conitnuation of part 1 in which Dr. Watson receives a letter from an old friend that tells about a treaty that was stolen from his office. Watson refers the letter to Holmes to investigate.
With no provisions available to them, the groups hungers continues to grow. Parker makes a grim suggestion.
The regiment continues moving towards imminent battle. Henry comes across the body of a dead soldier. Wilson, expecting to die in battle, gives Henry a package to take to his family.
Agnes Grey details the challenges posed by her charges, and the strained relations she feels within the family. She rises to the challenge, determined to succeed.
How a sister is ready to sacrifice everything to save her brothers from a curse.
Marianne still cannot see Willoughby for the blackguard that he is; she wants to believe him innocent, though wavers in her convictions. More of Colonel Brandon’s past is finally discussed.
The Invisible Man reveals his plan to Dr. Kemp moments before eluding capture. (London, England; Pearson's Magazine, 1897)
David returns home to find that many thing have changed.
The narrator, having escaped the horror of the death-ray, continues to warn people about the Martian attack.
Martin saves the lives of a dog and a cat and gains a magic ring. The ring wins him the hand of a princess, but she does not want to marry a poor man and has him put into a tower to starve, accused of witchcraft. But his faithful friends bring him the magic ring and food, and soon the King lets him out, and he forgives his wife.
Huck and Jim are joined by the duke and the dauphin.
The boys land at Cape Vincent and Fred finds a bond under one of the cushions in the boat. The rude man makes his appearance again, however Fred cuts the visit short. He claims the document is his and threatens the boys.
Jane contemplates her supernatural experience of the previous night, wondering whether it was really Rochester’s voice that she heard calling to her and whether Rochester might actually be in trouble. She finds a note from St. John urging her to resist temptation, but nevertheless she boards a coach to Thornfield. She travels to the manor, anxious to see Rochester and reflecting on the ways in which her life has changed in the single year since she left. Once hopeless, alone, and impoverished, Jane now has friends, family, and a fortune. She hurries to the house after her coach arrives and is shocked to find Thornfield a charred ruin. She goes to an inn called the Rochester Arms to learn what has happened. Here, she learns that Bertha Mason set the house ablaze several months earlier. Rochester saved his servants and tried to save his wife, but she flung herself from the roof as the fire raged around her. In the fire, Rochester lost a hand and went blind. He has taken up residence in a house called Ferndean, located deep in the forest, with John and Mary, two elderly servants.
The following is an account written by Emily Holder describing her memories of Fort Jefferson. They tell the poignant and often fascinating story of the hardships, isolation and drama of daily life at the Dry Tortugas in the nineteenth century.
David and Miss Betsey are told Little Em'ly's story. Mr. Peggotty and Little Em'ly decide to leave.
The Admiral sells his pension and gets £5,000. Harold returns to his parents after meeting with his creditors and tells them the sum owed is less than expected. They rejoice and Harold runs to Dr. Walker to return his cheque. Dr. Walker tells Harold how his father obtained the money and he runs back to the Admiral and demands that he get his pension back.
The author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.
Several people come to the store to find it closed. When the Judge’s horse remains in front of the house, people begin to suspect that something’s wrong. Phoebe returns to the house and walks inside.
A spoiled young boy torments an old woman, who curses him to fall in love with the silent princess. He decides he must go into the world and seek this princess, or die. He comes to learn that many others have lost their lives trying to get the silent princess to speak. Luckily, he befriends a nightingale who helps him in his challenges.
Through the use of broad imagery, the author describes the effect Christmas in St. Augustine has on him. He imagines Santa Claus’s night and what the nearby trees might be thinking.
The three children play a war game in the first snow of the winter. The Toyman builds six snow men and the children fight them with snow balls.
A run-in with John Dashwood reveals more about his character and nature.