Category: Short Stories
MUGBY JUNCTION: BY CHARLES DICKENS, ANDREW HALLIDAY, CHARLES COLLINS, HESBA STRETTON, AND AMELIA B. EDWARDS: BEING THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF “ALL THE YEAR ROUND,” 1866. WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY A. JULES GOODMAN. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1898.
“But starting a engine’s one thing and driving of her is another. Any one, a child a’most, can turn on the steam and turn it off again; but it ain’t every one that can keep a en...
11. Chapter 11I have said that we were born in the same village. He was the son of a small farmer, named William Price, and the eldest of a family of seven; I was the only child of Ephraim Ha...
2. Chapter 2He walked on, turned back, passed the window again, shyly glanced up again. No change. He struck off by a winding branch-road at the top of the hill—which he must otherwise have...
6. Chapter 6He thanked me, and went out at the door with me. “I’ll show my white light, sir,” he said, in his peculiar low voice, “till you have found the way up. When you have found it, do...
8. Chapter 8“By no means, sir,” said the old man. “He was as handsome a gentleman as you would wish to see: a little delicate-looking and careworn, perhaps, with a very pale face; but as fr...
5. Chapter 5I think it was her standing up agin the Foreigner, as giv’ Our Missis the idea of going over to France, and droring a comparison betwixt Refreshmenting as followed among the fro...
9. Chapter 9“I stole up behind him as he sat and wrote by the light of the candle. I looked over his shoulder at the letter, and I read, ‘Dearest Lucy, my love, my darling.’ As I read the w...
3. Chapter 3“Yes,” said Barbox Brothers, not quite easy in his chair, “from my birthday. I am, to myself, an unintelligible book with the earlier chapters all torn out, and thrown away. My...
4. Chapter 4He looked after her, had the screen removed and the table and chairs replaced, and still looked after her. He paced the room for half an hour. “A most engaging little creature,...
10. Chapter 10When I arrived at the station at Eaton, I found that I had only forty-five minutes before the up train went by. The town was nearly a mile away, but I made all the haste I could...
1. Chapter 1MUGBY JUNCTION: BY CHARLES DICKENS, ANDREW HALLIDAY, CHARLES COLLINS, HESBA STRETTON, AND AMELIA B. EDWARDS: BEING THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF “ALL THE YEAR ROUND,” 1866. WITH...
12. Chapter 12He had bidden me seek her out, and be the messenger of his forgiveness. I had sooner have gone down to the port of Genoa and taken upon me the serge cap and shotted chain of any...