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Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapters 6 and 7

Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapters 6 and 7
IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE
and
WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES

Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapters 4 and 5

Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapters 4 and 5
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT, HIS SERVANT
and
IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS, UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN, APPEARS ON 'CHANGE'

Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapter 3

Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 3
IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR

Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapter 2

Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 2
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL

Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapter 1

Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 1
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
 

My Favorite Murder - Ambrose Bierce

My Favorite Murder
Ambrose Bierce

Treasure Island - Chapter XXXIV - R L Stevenson - THE END

Treasure Island
Chapter XXXIV - R L Stevenson - THE END
THE next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the island did not greatly trouble us; a single sentry on the shoulder of the hill was sufficient to ensure us against any sudden onslaught, and we thought, besides, they had had more than enough of fighting.

Treasure Island - Chapter XXXIII - R L Stevenson

Treasure Island
Chapter XXXIII - R L Stevenson
THERE never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought up, in a single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had time to realize the disappointment.“Jim,” he whispered, “take that, and stand by for trouble.”And he passed me a double-barrelled pistol.

Treasure Island - Chapter XXXII - R L Stevenson

Treasure Island
Chapter XXXII - R L Stevenson
PARTLY from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent.The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand. Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw—clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the east.

Treasure Island - Chapter XXXI - R L Stevenson

Treasure Island
Chapter XXXI - R L Stevenson
“JIM,” said Silver when we were alone, “if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I’ll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it—with the tail of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim, that’s one to you. This is the first glint of hope I had since the attack failed, and I owe it you. And now, Jim, we’re to go in for this here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don’t like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back like, and we’ll save our necks in spite o’ fate and fortune.”