by
William Pett Ridge
London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898
Chapter IChildhood All through my life, at least all my thinking life, I have been on a quest. My search has been with one object in view, and that object has been to find myself. I did not know when I started that Walt Whitman had said, “A man is not all included between his…
Chapter 5 A large, square, green-walled room, with a shuffling crowd at the back; before her, a thoughtful, middle-aged gentleman, on a raised platform, seated at a desk, and signing, with a noisy pen, some blue forms, for which a clerk waited; at the side, two lads, with pencils, one telling the other, in a…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Illustrated by John Tenniel CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence
Chapter 3 If Number Eighteen, Lucella Road, had been able or had found it convenient, to keep up the fine excitement that attended Mord Em’ly’s first evening, it would have met that young woman’s demands. She was not long in discovering that, in effect, the sisters lived, for the most part, a monotonous, uneventful, economical…
CHAPTER IVTHE DEATH OF MY MOTHER— I MEET MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHURST — THE FIRST MILITANT ACT — THROWN OUT OF THE FREE TRADE HALL MEETING Christmas, 1904, and the beginning of the New Year, 1905, were weeks of sadness and grave anxiety on account of my mother’s health. She was too ill for Christmas festivities,…
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