item: #1 of 26 id: 10452 author: De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs. title: Peter's Mother date: None words: 80520 flesch: 85 summary: His services thus recognized and rewarded, old Sir Peter Crewys settled down amicably with his brother at Barracombe. Aunt Elizabeth, this is Sir Peter Crewys, who came home last night. keywords: barracombe; blundell; boy; canon; course; crewys; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; father; good; hand; heart; hewel; home; house; john; john crewys; know; lady belstone; lady mary; life; london; look; love; man; miss; moment; mother; people; peter; place; poor; room; round; sarah; sir; sir peter; sir timothy; thought; time; timothy; tintern; voice; way; white; world; years; young cache: 10452.txt plain text: 10452.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 10468 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society date: None words: 43883 flesch: 80 summary: She told him, in a quiet tone, that Miss Louise Merrick was being secluded in a suburban house near East Orange, and described the place so he could easily find it. So long as Fogerty holds fast to Mershone Louise is safe, wherever she may be. keywords: arthur; beth; cerise; charlie; dear; detective; diana; eyes; fogerty; girl; good; home; house; john; know; louise; madame; major; man; merrick; mershone; miss; nieces; patsy; room; sir; society; taer; time; uncle; von; way; weldon; woman cache: 10468.txt plain text: 10468.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 11052 author: Wharton, Edith title: The Custom of the Country date: None words: 144504 flesch: 77 summary: On a certain late afternoon of December, some four years after Mr. Popple's first meeting with Miss Undine Spragg of Apex, even the symbolic chafing-dish was nowhere visible in his studio; the only evidence of its recent activity being the full-length portrait of Mrs. Ralph Marvell, who, from her lofty easel and her heavily garlanded frame, faced the doorway with the air of having been invited to receive for Mr. Popple. The Countess Raymond de Chelles, contrasting her situation with that of Mrs. Undine Marvell, and the fulness and animation of her new life with the vacant dissatisfied days which had followed on her return from Dakota, forgot the smallness of her apartment, the inconvenient proximity of Paul and his nurse, the interminable round of visits with her mother-in-law, and the long dinners in the solemn hotels of all the family connection. keywords: apex; boy; business; chair; chelles; clare; course; daughter; day; days; degen; dinner; door; end; eyes; face; fact; fairford; family; father; girl; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heeny; home; house; husband; indiana; kind; life; like; look; madame; man; marriage; marvell; mean; mind; moffatt; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; paris; paul; people; peter; place; popple; princess; ralph; ralph marvell; raymond; right; room; round; sense; set; smile; social; spragg; table; talk; things; thought; time; tone; undine; undine spragg; van; van degen; want; way; wife; woman; york cache: 11052.txt plain text: 11052.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 12803 author: Peacock, Thomas Love title: Headlong Hall date: None words: 29494 flesch: 65 summary: The next arrival was that of Mr Cranium, and his lovely daughter Miss Cephalis Cranium, who flew to the arms of her dear friend Caprioletta, with all that warmth of friendship which young ladies usually assume towards each other in the presence of young gentlemen.[3.2] Miss Cephalis blushed like a carnation at the sight of Mr Escot, and Mr Escot glowed like a corn-poppy at the sight of Miss Cephalis. Mr Cranium had laid aside much of the terror of his frown; the short craniological conversation, which had passed between him and Mr Escot, had softened his heart in his favour; and the copious libations of Burgundy in which he had indulged had smoothed his brow into unusual serenity. keywords: cephalis; chapter; course; doctor; fire; gaster; good; hall; headlong; headlong ap; human; laurel; life; love; man; men; mind; miss; mr chromatic; mr cranium; mr escot; mr foster; mr gall; mr jenkison; mr mac; mr milestone; mr nightshade; mr panscope; nature; paragraph; patrick; point; question; reverend; round; sir; skull; squire; state; system; things; thought cache: 12803.txt plain text: 12803.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 18555 author: Howells, William Dean title: A Chance Acquaintance date: None words: 62018 flesch: 74 summary: On the forward promenade of the Saguenay boat which had been advertised to leave Quebec at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Miss Kitty Ellison sat tranquilly expectant of the joys which its departure should bring, and tolerantly patient of its delay; for if all the Saguenay had not been in promise, she would have thought it the greatest happiness just to have that prospect of the St. Lawrence and Quebec. Good-looking young John Bull, he thought concerning Mr. Arbuton, and then thought no more about him, being no more self-judged before the supposed Englishman than he would have been before so much Frenchman or Spaniard. keywords: air; arbuton; boat; boston; church; colonel; colonel ellison; course; day; ellison; eriecreek; eyes; face; fanny; girl; half; hand; heart; home; house; jack; kind; kitty; lady; life; light; look; love; man; mind; moment; morning; mrs; old; people; place; quebec; river; room; saw; talk; things; thought; time; uncle; way; world cache: 18555.txt plain text: 18555.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 21187 author: Hough, Lewis title: Dr. Jolliffe's Boys date: None words: 63051 flesch: 79 summary: Mr Wobbler sometimes unbended-- Mr Saurin was such a haffable gent there was no resisting him--and told anecdotes of his past experiences, which were the reverse of edifying. Other boys would admire him for smoking like a full-grown man, and so he smoked. keywords: ball; bit; boys; buller; chance; course; crawley; day; doctor; edwards; face; fellow; friend; game; good; gould; gun; half; hand; head; home; house; jolliffe; left; look; lord; man; marriner; mind; money; right; room; round; saurin; school; sir; slam; thing; thought; time; way; weston cache: 21187.txt plain text: 21187.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 21903 author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title: The Californians date: None words: 89607 flesch: 84 summary: He married Magdaléna Yorba, and borrowed from Don Roberto enough money to open a store in Monterey stocked with such necessities and luxuries as could be imported from Boston. She, Magdaléna Yorba, the dull, the silent, the terrified? keywords: beauty; belmont; brain; california; colonel; come; course; dark; day; don; door; end; eyes; face; father; girls; good; half; hand; head; helena; house; ila; left; life; little; look; love; magdaléna; man; men; menlo; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; polk; roberto; room; rose; san; talk; things; think; thought; time; trennahan; want; washington; way; white; woman; world; years; yorba cache: 21903.txt plain text: 21903.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 30855 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman date: None words: 132463 flesch: 77 summary: You will be Lady Harman, he exulted; _Lady_ Harman. Horatio Blenker, Sir Isaac's editor, showed a disposition to be socially very helpful, and after Mrs. Blenker had called in a state of worldly instructiveness, there was a little dinner at the Blenkers' to introduce young Lady Harman to the great political world. keywords: air; black; brumley; business; car; children; come; course; dark; day; days; door; effect; elly; end; eyes; face; feeling; garden; georgina; girls; good; hand; head; home; hostels; house; husband; idea; isaac harman; kind; lady beach; lady harman; left; life; little; london; look; love; mandarin; manner; marriage; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; open; pembrose; people; place; point; quality; read; right; room; round; sawbridge; sense; set; sir isaac; snagsby; social; sort; strand; susan; table; talk; tea; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 30855.txt plain text: 30855.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 31381 author: Marshall, Archibald title: The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons date: None words: 86367 flesch: 88 summary: Jim Graham gave his sister away, and Dick acted as best man to his brother, piloting him through the various pitfalls that befall a bridegroom with the same cool efficiency as he displayed in all emergencies, great or small. Here's everything a girl can want to make her happy--it's the ingratitude of it that I can't put up with, and so Miss Cicely shall find when she condescends to come home, as she shall do if I have to go to fetch her myself. keywords: aunt; cicely; clinton; country; course; day; dear; dick; eyes; face; father; good; graham; home; house; jim; joan; kencote; life; little; london; look; love; mackenzie; man; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; muriel; nancy; park; people; place; right; room; squire; talk; things; thought; time; twins; walter; want; way; years cache: 31381.txt plain text: 31381.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 3543 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Heartbreak House date: None words: 48827 flesch: 88 summary: I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in England, with the guns in France making themselves felt by a throb in the air as unmistakeable as an audible sound, or with tightening hearts studying the phases of the moon in London in their bearing on the chances whether our houses would be standing or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper accounts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expression of opinions which were being uttered amid thundering applause before huge audiences in England, and the more private records of the methods by which the American War Loans were raised, were so amazing that they put the guns and the possibilities of a raid clean out of our heads for the moment. Older men than I have-- CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [finishing the sentence for him].--made fools of themselves. keywords: burglar; business; captain; captain shotover; chair; course; door; dunn; ellie; father; garden; good; guinness; hector; hesione; house; lady utterword; life; love; mangan; mazzini; men; mind; miss; money; mr mangan; mrs hushabye; nurse; people; poor; randall; right; things; thought; time; war; way; women; world; years; young cache: 3543.txt plain text: 3543.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 3823 author: Corelli, Marie title: Thelma date: None words: 206212 flesch: 83 summary: These good folks were not only anxious to _see_ Lady Errington--they wanted to _say_ She lay there white and motionless--little Thelma meanwhile sat smilingly on the edge of the rock, assuring me that her mother had gone to sleep '_down there_.' keywords: air; arm; arms; beau; blue; boat; bonde; boy; briggs; brilliant; britta; care; child; clara; cold; come; course; dark; day; dear; death; deep; door; duprèz; dyceworthy; errington; eyes; face; fair; father; fellow; fine; fjord; francis; friend; fröken; girl; god; good; güldmar; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady; lady errington; lady winsleigh; leave; left; life; like; lips; little; look; lord; lorimer; love; lovisa; macfarlane; man; manner; marvelle; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; norway; olaf; pale; paused; people; philip; philip errington; place; poor; pretty; room; rose; round; sea; set; sigurd; sir; sir philip; smile; sort; soul; speak; sun; talk; thelma; things; think; thought; time; ulrika; valdemar; vere; violet; voice; want; way; white; wife; wild; winsleigh; woman; wonder; words; world cache: 3823.txt plain text: 3823.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 38646 author: Marshall, Archibald title: The Eldest Son date: None words: 123376 flesch: 88 summary: An Engagement XXII Dick Comes Home XXIII CHAPTER II A QUESTION OF MATRIMONY Dick Clinton, the eldest son, arrived at Kencote at a quarter to eight, and went straight up to his room to dress. keywords: aldeburgh; aunt; bird; clinton; course; day; dear; dexter; dick; father; george; good; home; hope; house; humphrey; joan; kencote; lady; laura; left; life; little; look; man; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; nancy; people; phipp; place; right; room; round; son; sort; squire; susan; talk; things; thought; time; twins; virginia; way; woman; years cache: 38646.txt plain text: 38646.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 38647 author: Marshall, Archibald title: The Honour of the Clintons date: None words: 97329 flesch: 90 summary: Said he couldn't sleep otherwise. What those of the papers had said which gave their readers a description as well as a report of what had occurred, was that Miss Joan Clinton had appeared in the witness-box in a simple but becoming costume, which some of them described, and given her evidence clearly and modestly. keywords: amberley; bobby; clinton; country; dear; dick; face; father; good; head; home; house; humphrey; joan; kencote; left; life; little; look; lord; man; mind; money; mrs; nancy; people; place; right; room; sedbergh; sort; squire; susan; talk; things; thought; time; trench; virginia; way; woman; years cache: 38647.txt plain text: 38647.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 40736 author: Pinero, Arthur Wing title: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: A Play in Four Acts date: None words: 25132 flesch: 96 summary: After a moment or two,_ DRUMMLE _appears at the window and looks in._ DRUMMLE. [_He goes out_; AUBREY _follows him. keywords: aubrey; cayley; cortelyon; dear; drummle; ellean; george; good; hugh; jayne; lady; misquith; mrs; night; orreyed; paula; sir; woman cache: 40736.txt plain text: 40736.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 40762 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Dodo's Daughter: A Sequel to Dodo date: None words: 104065 flesch: 88 summary: Take Nadine, Jack! In the days when it was built, forty years ago, this room of Nadine's had been the smoking-room, but since everybody now smoked wherever he or she chose, which was mostly everywhere, just as they breathed or talked wherever they chose, Nadine with her admirable commonsense had argued uselessness of a special smoking-room, for she wanted it very much herself, and her mother had been quite convinced. keywords: bed; berts; coming; course; darling; day; days; dear; dodo; edith; esther; eyes; face; going; good; hand; head; heart; house; hugh; hughie; jack; john; left; let; life; look; love; mama; man; mean; mind; moment; morning; mother; nadine; night; people; poor; room; round; sea; seymour; sort; talk; thing; thought; till; time; waldenech; want; water; way; wish; world; years cache: 40762.txt plain text: 40762.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 40797 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Mammon and Co. date: None words: 102646 flesch: 83 summary: Stick to that, dear Kit, said Lily. and they had both burst into shrieks of laughter, and discussed the question from every point and wondered how dear Kit took it. keywords: alice; alington; baccarat; business; carmel; comber; conybeare; course; day; dear; dinner; evening; eyes; face; good; half; hand; haslemere; head; hour; house; jack; kit; lady; left; life; lily; london; look; lord; man; mean; mind; mines; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; murchison; night; people; play; point; pounds; room; round; shares; sort; table; talk; ted; things; think; thought; time; toby; tom; voice; want; way; week; wish; world cache: 40797.txt plain text: 40797.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 41365 author: Goodwin, Maud Wilder title: The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life before the Revolution date: None words: 55883 flesch: 67 summary: Most doctors were trained up in the offices of older men as apprentices, pounders of drugs, and cleaners of instruments, as the old painters began by preparing paints and brushes for the master. The negroes that have been slaves in their own country, Hugh Jones says, make the best servants; for they that have been kings and great men there, are generally lazy, haughty and obstinate. keywords: age; america; bacon; berkeley; black; books; cavalier; century; children; church; college; colonial; colonies; company; country; court; day; days; death; dress; england; english; fine; general; gentleman; good; governor; great; half; hand; head; history; home; house; indian; james; john; king; lady; law; letter; life; london; lord; love; man; maryland; master; men; minister; money; new; night; old; pay; people; place; pounds; present; room; school; servants; service; set; settlers; sir; slave; state; thomas; time; tobacco; virginia; washington; way; white; william; women; world; years; young; y{e cache: 41365.txt plain text: 41365.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 4235 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 1 date: None words: 118587 flesch: 80 summary: She was glad, as with new meaning, she watched their proceedings, to see how easily, and as a matter of course, Louis let Mary bring his footstool and his slipper, fetch his books, each at the proper time, read Spanish with him, and make him look out the words in the dictionary when he knew them by intuition, remind him of orders to be written for his buildings, and manage him as her pupil. Louis thanked Mary by a look, as much as to say, 'Just like you,' and was glad to perceive that James had not been present. keywords: aunt; boy; care; charlotte; clara; conway; cousin; day; dear; delaford; door; dynevor; earl; eyes; face; father; fitzjocelyn; frost; good; half; hand; happy; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; isabel; james; jem; kind; lady; left; life; little; look; lord; louis; love; man; mary; mean; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; northwold; old; ormersfield; people; place; ponsonby; poor; right; room; round; school; sense; set; sir; sister; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; wish; words; work; world; years; young cache: 4235.txt plain text: 4235.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 4236 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 date: None words: 122915 flesch: 79 summary: Clara had tears in her eyes, but not like those she had shed at Cheveleigh; James gave Louis a look of heartfelt gratitude, bowed the lowest to the happy pair, and held up little Kitty that her imitative nod and sip might not be lost upon them. The fresh discomfiture made poor Louis feel utterly dejected and almost hopeless, but lest silence should seem to consent, he said, 'When you see Mary, you will be willing for me to do anything rather than lose what is so dear and so noble. keywords: aunt; brother; care; charlotte; children; clara; coming; conway; day; dear; dynevor; earl; eyes; face; father; fitzjocelyn; frost; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; isabel; james; jane; jem; kind; lady; leave; letter; life; like; little; look; lord; louis; man; mary; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; old; oliver; ormersfield; people; place; ponsonby; poor; present; right; robson; room; set; thing; thought; time; tom; uncle; ward; way; wish; work cache: 4236.txt plain text: 4236.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 44486 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 date: None words: 84857 flesch: 89 summary: You know Dodo is awfully charming, but she hasn't got any of the domestic virtues. And so Dodo has decided to make him happy. keywords: baby; bertie; chesterford; course; day; dear; dodo; door; edith; good; grantham; half; hand; house; husband; jack; lady; left; life; look; lord; love; man; maud; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; people; prince; room; sort; talk; tell; things; thought; time; vivian; want; way; wish cache: 44486.txt plain text: 44486.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 46057 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: The Relentless City date: None words: 88641 flesch: 85 summary: Then the letter continued: 'Mrs. Emsworth has reason to believe that you are about to marry Miss Amelie Palmer. Mrs. Palmer opened her mouth very wide, and screamed so loud that for a radius of three tables round all conversation ceased for a moment. keywords: amelie; america; bertie; bilton; business; charlie; day; dear; emsworth; england; evening; eyes; face; fact; ginger; going; good; great; half; hand; house; judy; keynes; left; letter; lewis; life; london; look; love; man; massington; matter; mean; mind; moment; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; palmer; people; place; room; sort; sybil; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; work; world; york cache: 46057.txt plain text: 46057.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 4659 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative date: None words: 32415 flesch: 80 summary: By the time the spring had come round again, she was lying in the vault at Trevorsham, and we were trying to keep poor little Alured alive and help my poor father to bear it. He says she quite glared at him with mortification, as if he had invented poor little Alured on purpose to baffle her; but my father breathed more freely. keywords: alured; boy; brother; child; day; emily; father; fulk; good; hester; home; jaquetta; lady; lea; mother; mrs; perrault; poor; room; saw; thought; time; torwood; trevor; trevorsham; way cache: 4659.txt plain text: 4659.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 541 author: Wharton, Edith title: The Age of Innocence date: None words: 104804 flesch: 76 summary: After dinner, according to immemorial custom, Mrs. Archer and Janey trailed their long silk draperies up to the drawing-room, where, while the gentlemen smoked below stairs, they sat beside a Carcel lamp with an engraved globe, facing each other across a rosewood work-table with a green silk bag under it, and stitched at the two ends of a tapestry band of field-flowers destined to adorn an occasional chair in the drawing-room of young Mrs. Newland Archer. Therefore, for totally different reasons, her food was as poor as Mrs. Archer's, and her wines did nothing to redeem it. keywords: archer; beaufort; carriage; countess; course; cousin; day; dear; der; dinner; door; drawing; ellen; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; going; good; half; hand; head; home; house; husband; jackson; janey; kind; lady; lefferts; left; letterblair; life; little; look; luyden; madame; madame olenska; man; manson; mind; mingott; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; new york; newland archer; olenska; people; place; poor; right; room; smile; society; talk; things; think; thought; time; van; voice; way; welland; wife; woman; world; york; young cache: 541.txt plain text: 541.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 54434 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Heartbreak House date: None words: 646 flesch: -22 summary: Cecile Licard, solo keyboard. http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/4/7/e/47ea3459bf05f738/chopin_op48no1.mp3?c_id=1787116&expiration=1491918776&hwt=3d224b438a34e2ee63c9e788616d7a36 www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Act 2 Part 6 Johannes Brahms, Sonata for cello and piano, No.1 E Minor, Op.38. Wendy Warner, Eileen Buck, cello and keyboard. Jonathan Biss , solo keyboard. http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/8/a/e/8ae4096db1e95471/mozart_k533k494.mp3?c_id=1787548&expiration=1491918619&hwt=4a41ec551899aa2c6689802bba3b7265 www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Act 1 Part 2-5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in F Major, K.533/K.494. keywords: attribution; noderivatives cache: 54434.txt plain text: 54434.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 59254 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: The Inimitable Jeeves date: None words: 16328 flesch: 93 summary: No, sir. Well, I said, as I took a sip of the fragrant and steaming, I don't suppose it will take old Bingo long to get over it. To a man--and to a woman--they were cursing poor old Bingo; and there was a large and rapidly growing school of thought which held that the best thing to do would be to waylay him as he emerged and splash him about in the village pond a bit. keywords: bertie; bingo; bit; claude; eustace; good; jeeves; little; man; right; sir; thing; thought; time; uncle cache: 59254.txt plain text: 59254.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 61582 author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins title: Flaming Youth date: None words: 89913 flesch: 91 summary: Did you, little Pat? Her mother leaned forward to look into the queer, defiant, chivalrous little face. Little Pat is going to look right clean through the petty illusions of life, clear-eyed. keywords: bobs; cary; child; come; constance; course; day; dear; dee; door; eyes; face; family; fentriss; girl; going; good; half; hand; help; house; james; kind; life; lips; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; mona; monty; mother; music; osterhout; party; pat; right; room; scott; self; set; sort; talk; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wish; woman; world; young cache: 61582.txt plain text: 61582.txt