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Шарлотта Бронте. Shirley
SHIRLEY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 Levitical
CHAPTER 2 The Wagons
CHAPTER 3 Mr. Yorke
CHAPTER 4 Mr. Yorke (continued)
CHAPTER 5 Hollow’s Cottage
CHAPTER 6 Coriolanus
CHAPTER 7 The Curates at Tea
CHAPTER 8 Noah and Moses
CHAPTER 9 Briarmains
CHAPTER 10 Old Maids
CHAPTER 11 Fieldhead
CHAPTER 12 Shirley and Caroline
CHAPTER 13 Further Communications on Business
CHAPTER 14 Shirley Seeks to be Saved by Works
CHAPTER 15 Mr. Donne’s Exodus
CHAPTER 16 Whitsuntide
CHAPTER 17 The School Feast
CHAPTER 18 Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons Being Here Introduced
CHAPTER 19 A Summer Night
CHAPTER 20 To-morrow
CHAPTER 21 Mrs. Pryor
CHAPTER 22 Two Lives
CHAPTER 23 An Evening Out
CHAPTER 24 The Valley of the Shadow of Death
CHAPTER 25 The West Wind Blows
CHAPTER 26 Old Copy-books
CHAPTER 27 The First Bluestocking
CHAPTER 28 Phoebe
CHAPTER 29 Louis Moore
CHAPTER 30 Rushedge—A Confessional
CHAPTER 31 Uncle and Niece
CHAPTER 32 The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph
CHAPTER 33 Martin’s Tactics
CHAPTER 34 Case of Domestic Persecution—Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties
CHAPTER 35 Wherein Matters Make Some Progress, But Not Much
CHAPTER 36 Written in the Schoolroom
CHAPTER 37 The Winding-up
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
HISTORY OF COLLINS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Life & Times. The Brontë Family
Charlotte Brontë
Common Themes
The Brontë Legacy
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Charlotte Brontë
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Mr. Moore, meantime, after stabling his dray-horses, had saddled his hackney, and with the aid of Sarah, the servant, lit up his mill, whose wide and long front now glared one great illumination, throwing a sufficient light on the yard to obviate all fear of confusion arising from obscurity. Already a deep hum of voices became audible. Mr. Malone had at length issued from the counting-house, previously taking the precaution to dip his head and face in the stone water-jug; and this precaution, together with the sudden alarm, had nearly restored to him the possession of those senses which the punch had partially scattered. He stood with his hat on the back of his head, and his shillelah grasped in his dexter fist, answering much at random the questions of the newly-arrived party from the Redhouse. Mr. Moore now appeared, and was immediately confronted by the shovel hat and the shaggy pony.
“Well, Moore, what is your business with us? I thought you would want us to-night—me and the hetman here (patting his pony’s neck), and Tom and his charger. When I heard your mill-bell I could sit still no longer, so I left Boultby to finish his supper alone. But where is the enemy? I do not see a mask or a smutted face present; and there is not a pane of glass broken in your windows. Have you had an attack, or do you expect one?”
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