Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Pip : A Romance of Youth

IT was to Pipette that the idea originally occurred, but it was upon Pip that parental retribution subsequently fell, Pipette being merely dismissed with a caution. This clemency was due chiefly to the intercession of Cook, who stated, in the role of principal witness, that th...

Chapters

7. CHAPTER VII

BY the time that Pip had reached his twenty-fifth year his name was scarcely less familiar to the man in the street than that of the leading picture-postcard divinity, and consi...

5. CHAPTER V

LINKLATER came to school after Pip,--one year, to be precise,--but by the time that both had attained to the dignity of seniors they were firm friends. They were a curiously ass...

9. CHAPTER IX

Miss Lottie Lottingar came down. She was an exceedingly handsome young person,--what is usually known as "a fine figure of a woman,"--but there was nothing of the squire's daugh...

10. CHAPTER X

SOMEWHERE on the east coast of Scotland lie the famous Links of Eric. The district has not changed much, to all seeming, during the last thousand years--or ten thousand, for tha...

4. CHAPTER IV

Pip, with the most natural air in the world, obeyed orders. This time he bowled a yorker, somewhere in the direction of the off-stump. Mr. Hanbury did not trouble to play it, bu...

2. CHAPTER II

Hitherto the social circle in which they moved had been limited on the male side to Father, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Pipes, together with the milkman, the lamplighter, and a few more...

8. CHAPTER VIII

PIP reached London that evening to find the great gloomy house in Westock Square shuttered and silent. His father's brougham had driven up as usual at lunch-time, after the morn...

11. CHAPTER XI

His pithy and apposite comments on the situation were, had he only known it, being reproduced (in an expurgated form) by a damsel in a kimono at a bedroom window not far down th...

6. CHAPTER VI

The reason revealed itself with the opening of the door. Pipette entered the room with another girl, at whose appearance Pip, always deferential to the point of obsequiousness i...

1. CHAPTER I

IT was to Pipette that the idea originally occurred, but it was upon Pip that parental retribution subsequently fell, Pipette being merely dismissed with a caution. This clemenc...

3. CHAPTER III

THE schoolmaster realises early in his career that he is not a universally popular person. If he keeps his boys in order and compels them to work, they dislike him heartily; if...

12. CHAPTER XII

ELSIE walked on. Her face was set, and her blue-grey eyes had a steely look. In her hand she carried a golf-ball--not the one which poor Pip had "discovered" in the hole, but an...