Chapter 1 It was on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, a singular person fell out of infinity into Iping Village. Next day his luggage arrived through the slush. And very remarkable luggage it was. There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but […]
Once, a lion went to a river to drink water on a hot summer noon. At the same time, a wild boar also came there to quench its thirst. “Don’t dare drink water before me,” the lion roared and warned it.“I am very thirsty, so I cannot obey your words,” the wild boar replied. Both
In ancient times, a sphinx guarded the city of Thebes. It was a strange creature. He had the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of a falcon.The sphinx had a habit of asking every passer-by a riddle. Anyone who could not answer the riddle correctly, was gobbled up by
One day, the lion, the king of forest was sitting under a tree. He saw a sheep passing by. The lion called out to the sheep and asked, “Tell me one thing. Does my mouth stink or not?” The innocent sheep answered, “Yes, Your Highness; your mouth stinks.”The lion became furious and killed the truthful
Chapter 10 We went and stood by the car. No one said anything for a few minutes. Favell looked grey, rather shaken. I noticed his hands were trembling as he held the match. The man with the barrel-organ ceased playing for a moment and hobbled towards us, his cap in his hand. Maxim gave him
Chapter 9 When I awoke the next morning, just after six o’clock, and got up and went to the window there was a foggy dew upon the grass like frost, and the trees were shrouded in a white mist. There was a chill in the air and a little, fresh wind, and the cold, quiet
Chapter 8 It was then that Maxim looked at me. He looked at me for the first time that evening. And in his eyes I read a message of farewell. It was as though he leant against the side of a ship, and I stood below him on the quay. There would be other people
Chapter 7 Maxim went into the little room and shut the door. Robert came in a few minutes afterwards to clear away the tea. I stood up, my back turned to him so that he should not see my face. I wondered when they would begin to know, on the estate, in the servants’ hall,
Chapter 6 I think I fell asleep a little after seven. It was broad daylight I remember; there was no longer any pretense that the drawn curtains hid the sun. The light streamed in at the open window and made patterns on the wall. I heard the men below in the rose-garden clearing away the
Chapter 5 Maxim Rang up the next morning to say he would be back about seven. Frith took the message. Maxim did not ask to speak to me himself. I heard the telephone ring while I was at breakfast and I thought perhaps Frith would come into the dining-room and say, “Mr. de Winter on
Chapter 4 I did not see much of Mrs. Danvers. She kept very much to herself. She still rang the house telephone to the morning-room every day and submitted the menu to me as a matter of form, but that was the limit of our intercourse. She had engaged a maid for me, Clarice, the
Chapter 3 When I heard the sound of the car in the drive I got up in sudden panic, glancing at the clock, for I knew that it meant Beatrice and her husband had arrived. It was only just gone twelve, they were much earlier than I expected. And Maxim was not yet back. I
Chapter 2 I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so
Chapter 1 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the Iron Gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred tome. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to
Chapter 11 Sir Lancelot had grown old, so had King Arthur. Now the king had desired to renounce the throne. The time had come for the breaking up of the fellowship of the Round Table. Sir Lancelot had been searching for the Holy Grail for many years. He had travelled length and breadth of the