Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
When the big bell in the Tower of the House of Life struck the hour of seven, the other bells began to chime as they had done every day at this hour for I know not how many years. Very likely in the Library, where we still keep a great collection of perfectly useless books, th...
"The bad old days"--it was one of the Assistant Physicians who admonished her--"the times when nothing was certain, not even life, from day to day. It should bring you increased...
1. CHAPTER I.When the big bell in the Tower of the House of Life struck the hour of seven, the other bells began to chime as they had done every day at this hour for I know not how many year...
4. CHAPTER IV.It would be idle to dwell upon the repetition of such scenes as those described in the last chapter. These unhappy persons continued to meet day after day in the Museum; after c...
16. CHAPTER XVI."Farewell, Suffragan, farewell!" said my Brethren of the College, gathered within the South Porch, where a guard of armed Rebels waited for us. "Your turn to-day, ours to-morrow...
2. CHAPTER II.It always pleases me, from my place at the College table, which is raised two feet above the rest, to contemplate the multitude whom it is our duty and our pleasure to keep in c...
5. CHAPTER V.It was in this way that the whole trouble began. There was an inquisitive girl foolishly allowed to grow up in this ancient Museum and among the old books, who developed a morbi...
11. CHAPTER XI.I was greatly pleased with the honest zeal shown by John Lax, the Porter, on this occasion. When, after snatching three or four hours' sleep, I repaired to the House, I found th...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Arch Physician generally walked in the College Gardens for an hour or so every forenoon. They are very large and spacious Gardens, including plantations of trees, orchards,...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The College was still sitting in Council. One of the Physicians proposed that before the Execution the Arch Physician should be brought before us to be subjected to a last exami...
7. CHAPTER VII.That morning, while I was in my private laboratory, idly turning over certain Notes on experiments conducted for the artificial manufacture of food, I was interrupted by a knock...
9. CHAPTER IX.The House of Life, you have already learned, is a great and venerable building. We build no such houses now. No one but those who belong to the Holy College--viz., the Arch Phys...
12. CHAPTER XII.It is useless to regret a thing that is done and over; otherwise one might very bitterly regret two or three steps in these proceedings. At the same time, it may be argued that...
10. CHAPTER X."Brothers of the Holy College!" I cried, "you have beheld the crime--you are witnesses of the Fact--you have actually seen the Arch Physician himself revealing the Great Secret,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.I dismissed John Lax, charging him with the most profound secrecy. I knew, and had known for a long time, that this man, formerly the avowed enemy of aristocrats, nourished an e...
15. CHAPTER XV."So far," said Jack, "we have succeeded beyond our greatest hopes. The Prisoners are rescued; the only man with any fight in him has been put out of the temptation to fight any...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Thus, then, were the tables turned upon us. We were locked up, prisoners--actually the Sacred College, prisoners--in the House of Life itself, and the Great Secret was probably...