Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings

Richard Marsh

CHAPTER I OUTSIDE 'No room!--Full up!'

Richard Marsh

Confessions of a Young Lady I A WONDERFUL GIRL As a small girl I must have been a curiosity.

Richard Marsh

CHAPTER I THE INCLINING OF A TWIG When Rodney Elmore was eleven years old, placards appeared on the walls announcing that a circus was coming to Uffham.

Richard Marsh

Chapter I.--The Juryman is Startled.

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...