item: #1 of 12 id: 10658 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Hilda Lessways date: None words: 109489 flesch: 82 summary: It was a receipt signed by the manager of the Brighton branch of the Southern Counties Bank for the sum of three thousand four hundred and forty-five pounds deposited at call by Miss Hilda Lessways. Now the bacon--but never mind that--either Miss Hilda or me will be down to-morrow morning to show you. keywords: alicia; bed; bedroom; book; brighton; cannon; child; clayhanger; course; day; dayson; door; edwin; end; eyes; face; fact; father; florrie; gailey; george; george cannon; girl; good; half; hand; head; hilda; house; janet; left; lessways; letter; life; london; look; louisa; man; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; orgreave; room; sarah; sarah gailey; saw; self; shop; small; street; table; thing; thought; time; tone; town; turnhill; voice; woman; young cache: 10658.txt plain text: 10658.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 12779 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) date: None words: 54097 flesch: 86 summary: James Ollerenshaw was glad that she was just Helen. Helen had been momentarily saddened by private reflections upon what James Ollerenshaw had missed in his career; and James had been saddened, somewhat less, by reminiscences which had sprung out of Helen's laugh. keywords: andrew; bursley; butt; course; day; dean; door; emanuel; georgiana; good; great; hall; hand; head; helen; house; james; james ollerenshaw; lass; left; mind; money; mother; mrs; night; ollerenshaw; pounds; prockter; room; sarah; swetnam; tea; tell; thing; thought; time; towns; uncle; way; wilbraham; woman; years cache: 12779.txt plain text: 12779.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 12912 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Price of Love date: None words: 114237 flesch: 82 summary: This revelation of the odalisque in his Rachel enchanted Louis, and incidentally it also enchanted Rachel. Louis questioned Rachel. keywords: aunt; bank; batchgrew; bed; bedroom; chair; course; day; doctor; door; end; eyes; face; fact; fire; gas; girl; good; half; hand; head; horrocleave; house; instant; julian; julian maldon; kitchen; lady; left; life; look; louis; louis fores; maldon; man; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; notes; order; parlour; place; pounds; rachel; room; round; self; street; table; tams; thing; thomas; thought; time; tone; towns; voice; water; way; week; window; woman; world; young cache: 12912.txt plain text: 12912.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 12986 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns date: None words: 76594 flesch: 83 summary: The rumour of it spread; before dinner Denry had visits from other aspirants to membership, and he had posted a cheque to Bostocks', but more from ostentation than necessity; for no member could possibly go into Bostocks' with his coupons until at least two months had elapsed. They just cried Good old Denry! and elected him--with a majority of only forty-one votes. keywords: afternoon; boys; bursley; business; captain; club; cotterill; councillor; countess; course; daily; day; denry; denry machin; door; duncalf; fact; football; good; great; half; hall; head; house; left; lifeboat; little; llandudno; machin; man; mayor; men; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; mule; nellie; people; pounds; public; rent; right; room; round; ruth; signal; street; tea; thing; thought; time; towns; week; woman; years; young cache: 12986.txt plain text: 12986.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 12995 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories date: None words: 98674 flesch: 85 summary: Curious thing--Ellis never notices women's clothes; very interested in his own, and in other men's, but not in women's! The devil! Other men of business, besides James Peake, made similar exclamations that morning; for the collapse of Eardley Brothers, the great earthenware manufacturers, who were chiefly responsible for the ruinous cutting of prices in the American and Colonial markets, was no ordinary trade fiasco. keywords: alderman; arthur; bed; bursley; car; chadwick; clayton; clock; clowes; course; cowlishaw; day; door; ebag; ellis; end; eyes; fact; fire; garlick; george; good; half; hanbridge; hand; head; herbert; house; jock; jos; left; life; london; look; man; mary; men; mimi; mind; minutes; moment; money; morfe; morning; mrs; new; night; peake; people; place; room; servant; simeon; street; swann; table; things; think; thought; time; towns; uncle; vernon; voice; way; wife; window; woman; world; years; young cache: 12995.txt plain text: 12995.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 13293 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Tales of the Five Towns date: None words: 52271 flesch: 84 summary: 'Do you mean that old Mr. Timmis must give up his shop to my father? By a silent understanding Clive did not enter the house at Pireford; to have done so would have excited remark, for this house, unlike some, had never been the rendezvous of young men; much less, therefore, did he invade the shop. keywords: afternoon; beechinor; belmont; brunt; bursley; clive; curtenty; day; dear; door; edward; ellis; eyes; ezra; face; father; geese; girl; good; half; hanbridge; hand; head; house; left; life; lionel; look; man; mark; miss; moment; money; new; night; nina; people; room; shop; street; thing; thought; time; towns; way; week; wife; woman; world; years; yes cache: 13293.txt plain text: 13293.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 13723 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Leonora date: None words: 75016 flesch: 81 summary: I bequeath ten pounds each to my dear nephew John Stanway, and to his wife Leonora, to purchase mourning at my decease, and five pounds each for the same purpose to my dear great-nephew Frederick Wellington Ryley, and to my great-nieces Ethel, Rosalys, and Millicent Stanway, and to any other children of the said John and Leonora Stanway should they have such, and should such children survive me. keywords: arthur; arthur twemlow; aunt; come; dain; day; dear; doctor; door; ethel; eyes; face; father; fred; girls; good; half; hand; hannah; harry; home; house; husband; john; left; leonora; life; london; long; look; man; meshach; millicent; milly; mind; moment; mother; new; night; old; room; rose; ryley; stanway; street; tea; thought; time; twemlow; uncle; uncle meshach; voice; women; young cache: 13723.txt plain text: 13723.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 21249 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Clayhanger date: None words: 190329 flesch: 82 summary: The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, while the chairman surreptitiously poked the fire with a piece of wood from the lower works of a chair, and then the chairman, as he signed the minutes with a pen dipped in an excise ink-bottle that stood on the narrow mantelpiece, said in his dry voice-- I call upon our young friend, Mr Edwin Clayhanger, to open the debate, `Is Bishop Colenso, considered as a Biblical commentator, a force for good?' I'm a damned fool! said Edwin to himself savagely, as he stood on his feet. Us'll ask Mr Edwin to have a go. keywords: -----------------------------------------------------------------------two; afternoon; albert; asked; auntie; bed; big; book; boy; bursley; business; chair; chapter; charlie; child; children; clara; clayhanger; come; course; darius; day; door; drawing; edwin; edwin clayhanger; end; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; floor; garden; george; girl; good; half; hall; hamps; hand; head; heart; hilda; home; hour; house; james; janet; left; letter; life; look; maggie; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mr edwin; mr orgreave; mrs; new; night; order; orgreave; paper; people; place; printing; read; road; room; round; saw; school; self; shop; smile; son; square; street; sunday; table; thing; thought; time; tone; town; voice; volume; way; window; woman; word; work; years cache: 21249.txt plain text: 21249.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 35505 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Anna of the Five Towns date: None words: 76873 flesch: 83 summary: Anna, what ages you've been!' Anna Tellwright stood motionless for a second in the shadow of the doorway. The outer facts of his career were known to all, for his riches made him notorious; but of the secret and intimate man none knew anything except Anna, and what little Anna knew had come to her by divination rather than discernment. keywords: afternoon; agnes; anna; beatrice; bursley; business; chapel; child; course; day; door; end; ephraim; eyes; face; father; felt; going; good; half; hand; henry; home; house; kitchen; left; life; look; man; meeting; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; mynors; night; parlour; past; place; pounds; price; road; room; round; school; street; sunday; sutton; table; tea; tellwright; things; thought; time; titus; town; way; willie; window; works; years cache: 35505.txt plain text: 35505.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 4734 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Grim Smile of the Five Towns date: None words: 64816 flesch: 85 summary: Mr Brindley, like most of the people in the station, had a slightly pinched and chilled air, as though that morning he had by inadvertence omitted to don those garments which are not seen. 'Ah!' breathed Mr Brindley, blowing out much air and falling like a sack of coal into a corner seat. keywords: annie; bath; bittenger; blackshaw; brindley; bursley; christmas; colclough; course; dan; day; door; eyes; fact; fuge; good; half; harold; hat; horace; house; husband; jee; john; life; man; maud; mother; mr brindley; mrs; music; new; night; robert; room; round; sidney; simon; sir; smith; stephen; street; thing; thought; time; towns; uncle; vera; way; wife; woman; years cache: 4734.txt plain text: 4734.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 7326 author: Gough, George W. title: The Yeoman Adventurer date: None words: 128320 flesch: 87 summary: He had few men north of Stafford, and fewer still worth powder and shot. From that grim event, whether my mind travelled backwards or forwards, it traversed scenes such as few men are privileged, or fated, to pass through. keywords: ale; arm; body; brocton; charles; colonel; come; day; dear; donald; door; dragoons; end; eyes; face; father; fire; freake; god; good; great; half; hand; hanyards; head; heart; house; jack; jane; joe; kate; know; lady; left; life; like; little; london; look; lord; maclachlan; madam; man; margaret; master; master freake; men; mind; minutes; mistress; mother; new; oliver; open; place; prince; quick; right; road; room; round; sergeant; set; sir; sultan; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; town; turn; way; waynflete; wheatman; window; woman; words; work; young cache: 7326.txt plain text: 7326.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 7508 author: Moore, George title: A Mummer's Wife date: None words: 146582 flesch: 82 summary: V On leaving Mr. Lennox Kate walked slowly along the streets, recalling every word he had said, feeling his breath upon her cheek and his blue eyes looking into hers more distinctly in recollection than when he had held her in his arms. At last Kate said: 'I don't know what I shall do; I promised the dress by to-morrow morning.' keywords: answer; beaumont; company; conversation; course; day; dear; dick; door; drink; ede; eyes; face; felt; girls; good; half; hand; head; heart; hender; home; hour; house; husband; kate; leave; left; lennox; leslie; life; long; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; montgomery; morning; mortimer; mother; mrs; night; people; piece; place; ralph; read; room; round; saw; speak; stage; street; tell; theatre; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; wife; woman; words; work cache: 7508.txt plain text: 7508.txt