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916 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Woodhouse is fond of society, but he prefers to have people come and visit him rather than to travel out, and indeed people do come. The Westons, Mr. Knightley and Mr. Elton come to see him, as do Mrs. Bates, an old widow, and her daughter Miss Bates, a rather silly and talkative but good-natured woman. Mrs. Goddar... | [
"Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to\nhave his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from\nhis long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune,\nhis house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his\nown little circle, in a great m... |
917 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet soon becomes a regular visitor to Hartfield and a walking partner to Emma. When Emma realizes that the Mr. Martin that Harriet talks about is the son, not the husband, of Mrs. Martin, Emma fears that he has designs on Harriet. She tries to get Harriet to talk about him to see if Harriet has feelings for him. Sh... | [
"Harriet Smith's intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick\nand decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and\ntelling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance increased, so\ndid their satisfaction in each other. As a walking companion, Emma had\nvery early foreseen how u... |
918 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley asks Mrs. Weston what she thinks of the friendship between Emma and Harriet, as he thinks that neither will do the other any good. Mrs. Weston says that she can understand his objection to Harriet, as she is not as superior as a friend of Emma ought to be. Knightley says that Harriet will not induce Emma ... | [
"\"I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,\" said Mr.\nKnightley, \"of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I\nthink it a bad thing.\"",
"\"A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?--why so?\"",
"\"I think they will neither of them do the other any good.\"",
"\"You surpr... |
919 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a few visits together, Emma is soon convinced that Mr. Elton is falling in love with Harriet, and is certain of her returning the feelings. She believes it even more when he strongly agrees with her suggestion that Harriet's portrait be drawn and suggests that Emma herself draw it. The sittings begin, and Mr. Elt... | [
"Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper\ndirection and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good\npurpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr.\nElton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners;\nand as she had no hesitation in ... |
920 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The very day that Mr. Elton sets off for London, Harriet receives a letter proposing marriage from Mr. Martin and runs to Emma to find out what she should do. Emma finds the letter better than she had expected, but is surprised when she realizes that Harriet is thinking about what she ought to answer. Emma says that sh... | [
"The very day of Mr. Elton's going to London produced a fresh occasion\nfor Emma's services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield,\nas usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to\nreturn again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been\ntalked of, and with an agitated, hurrie... |
921 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For the past few weeks Harriet has been spending more and more time at Hartfield, but the morning after the proposal from Mr. Martin she has to go back to Mrs. Goddard's for a bit, and Mr. Knightley visits Emma. Mr. Knightley hints that Harriet may soon be receiving a marriage proposal. Emma thinks that Mr. Elton has d... | [
"Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been\nspending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have\na bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every\nrespect, safest and kindest, to keep her with them as much as possible\njust at present. She was obli... |
922 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma convinces herself fully that Knightley is wrong, and he does not visit Hartfield for a while. When he does, Emma can see that she was not forgiven. The portrait of Harriet is brought back framed, and is hung up in a prominent spot at Hartfield. Emma and Harriet start collecting riddles and transcribing them into a... | [
"Mr. Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with\nherself. He was so much displeased, that it was longer than usual before\nhe came to Hartfield again; and when they did meet, his grave looks\nshewed that she was not forgiven. She was sorry, but could not repent.\nOn the contrary, her plans an... |
923 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the middle of December, and Emma and Harriet walk to a cottage to visit a sick family. On the way, Harriet wonders why Emma is not married, and she replies that she does not intend to marry, and that she is happy at Hartfield. They then talk of Miss Bates, who is an old maid, and of how she can do almost nothing ... | [
"Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to\nprevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the\nmorrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who\nlived a little way out of Highbury.",
"Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a la... |
924 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma must leave Mr. Elton and his affairs to himself for awhile, as the visit of her sister, her husband, their five children and their nursery-maids is drawing near. Isabella is an amiable, good-natured woman, and John Knightley is sometimes out of humor, which Emma does not like, as it means that he sometimes is not ... | [
"Mr. Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma's power\nto superintend his happiness or quicken his measures. The coming of her\nsister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation,\nand then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest;\nand during the ten days o... |
925 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley comes to dine with them, and it seems as if he and Emma get along better after their quarrel. He tells her that he knows more about the world since he is sixteen years older than her. He tells her that Mr. Martin is quite disappointed. The evening goes well, and Emma talks with Isabella about all of the p... | [
"Mr. Knightley was to dine with them--rather against the inclination of\nMr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should share with him in\nIsabella's first day. Emma's sense of right however had decided it;\nand besides the consideration of what was due to each brother, she had\nparticular pleasure, from the c... |
926 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is decided that the entire party at Hartfield should dine one night at Randalls, the home of the Westons. Harriet, Mr. Elton and Mr. Knightley are also invited. Mr. Woodhouse is quite concerned about them all going to Randalls, as he does not like to venture out at night, and he is sure they will all get sick. The n... | [
"There could hardly be a happier creature in the world than Mrs. John\nKnightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning\namong her old acquaintance with her five children, and talking over what\nshe had done every evening with her father and sister. She had nothing\nto wish otherwise, but that... |
927 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They all arrive at Randalls, and Emma finds that Mr. Elton has positioned himself next to her. He is always drawing notice of himself to her, and she wonders if her brother-in-law could have been right after all. Emma tries to hear what it is that Mr. Weston is saying about his son Frank Churchill, but she cannot make ... | [
"Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they\nwalked into Mrs. Weston's drawing-room;--Mr. Elton must compose his\njoyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour. Mr.\nElton must smile less, and Mr. John Knightley more, to fit them for the\nplace.--Emma only might be as nature ... |
964 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After tea, Mr. Woodhouse is quite ready to go home, but the others are not. When the men enter the drawing room Mr. Elton sits between Mrs. Weston and Emma, and Emma tries to talk to him about Harriet. He seems more concerned about how Harriet's sickness might affect her than about Harriet, and she is again worried tha... | [
"Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his\ntea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his three\ncompanions could do, to entertain away his notice of the lateness of\nthe hour, before the other gentlemen appeared. Mr. Weston was chatty and\nconvivial, and no friend to early ... |
965 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night when she is finally alone, all Emma can think about is what had happened with Mr. Elton. She is worried about what her blunders will mean for her friend Harriet. She wonders at how John Knightley noticed Elton's attentions to her when she did not, and how right Mr. Knightley was about Mr. Elton, thinking tha... | [
"The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think\nand be miserable.--It was a wretched business indeed!--Such an overthrow\nof every thing she had been wishing for!--Such a development of every\nthing most unwelcome!--Such a blow for Harriet!--that was the worst\nof all. Every part of it bro... |
966 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley leave Hartfield for home, and Mr. Woodhouse receives a letter from Mr. Elton saying that he is going to Bath for a few weeks and is sorry he could not take leave of him in person. Emma is glad he is going, but thinks that it will be noticed that her name is not mentioned in the letter. It is... | [
"Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The\nweather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr.\nWoodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay\nbehind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party\nset off, and return to his lamentations ... |
967 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill writes to say that he cannot come to visit after all, and Mrs. Weston is disappointed. Emma and Mr. Knightley disagree about him, Knightley arguing that he is a young man can do what he sets his mind to and is just making excuses, and Emma defending him, saying that he is too much in debt to his aunt an... | [
"Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs.\nWeston's fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For\nthe present, he could not be spared, to his \"very great mortification\nand regret; but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to\nRandalls at no distant perio... |
928 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Harriet are out walking, and Emma thinks of paying a visit to the Batses, in order to get Harriet's mind off of Mr. Elton. Emma does not think that they would have received a letter from Jane Fairfax recently, so does not think that she will have to suffer through it being read to her, but she is wrong. Miss B... | [
"Emma and Harriet had been walking together one morning, and, in Emma's\nopinion, had been talking enough of Mr. Elton for that day. She could\nnot think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and\nshe was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they\nreturned;--but it burst out again wh... |
929 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lieut. Fairfax married Miss Jane Bates, and they had a daughter, Jane Fairfax. The couple soon died however, and Jane was left with her grandmother and aunt. Colonel Campbell, a friend of Jane's father wanted to help, and so he took charge of her education, and he raised her with his family. The Campbells love Jane and... | [
"Jane Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates's youngest\ndaughter.",
"The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry,\nand Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope\nand interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy\nremembrance of him dying in action... |
930 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Knightley discuss Jane, as he was there during her visit to Hartfield. He has only praise for Jane, and is disappointed that Emma is annoyed with her. Mr. Knightley then tells Emma that he has some news, but does not have time to tell her what it is, as Miss Bates and Jane enter. They excitedly tell Emma that ... | [
"Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment\nwere discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had\nseen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was\nexpressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with\nMr. Woodhouse, his approbation... |
931 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Elton comes back to Highbury a happy man, and spreads the news about how charming and beautiful Augusta Hawkins is. The wedding is to be soon, and all expect that the next time Elton returns to Highbury he will bring his new wife with him. Emma barely sees him during this stay in Highbury. She thinks little of the ... | [
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting\nsituations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of\nbeing kindly spoken of.",
"A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in\nHighbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have\n... |
932 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma drops Harriet off at the Martins' as planned, and then returns to pick her up a quarter of an hour later. Harriet reports that she had seen only Mrs. Martin and her two daughters, and that they had been cool to her at first. They were all falling back into the friendship they used to have when Harriet was summoned... | [
"Small heart had Harriet for visiting. Only half an hour before her\nfriend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her\nto the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to _The Rev.\nPhilip Elton, White-Hart, Bath_, was to be seen under the operation of\nbeing lifted into the butcher's ca... |
933 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Frank Churchill and Mrs. Weston come to visit Hartfield. Emma joins them in a walk about Hartfield and Highbury, and when they stop at the Crown Inn, Frank is interested in how they used to hold balls there. As they continue on, Emma remembers that Frank was going to visit Jane the day before, and asks... | [
"The next morning brought Mr. Frank Churchill again. He came with Mrs.\nWeston, to whom and to Highbury he seemed to take very cordially. He had\nbeen sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till\nher usual hour of exercise; and on being desired to chuse their walk,\nimmediately fixed on Highbury... |
934 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Emma wonders about her good opinion of Frank when she finds out that he will be spending the entire day in going to London to get his hair cut. Mr. Weston tries to laugh it off, but Mrs. Weston seems not to like it, evident in her trying to change the subject. This frivolous act is the only reason Emma has... | [
"Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the\nfollowing day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have\nhis hair cut. A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and\nhe had sent for a chaise and set off, intending to return to dinner,\nbut with no more important v... |
935 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day of the party arrives, and Emma thinks about how everyone will be seeing her and Frank together for the first time. Emma runs into Mr. Knightley arriving at the Cole's, so they walk in together. She is glad that he has come by his carriage, so that he looks like the gentleman he is. Emma notices that Frank seems... | [
"Frank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner\nwaiting, it was not known at Hartfield; for Mrs. Weston was too anxious\nfor his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse, to betray any imperfection\nwhich could be concealed.",
"He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a ve... |
936 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma does not regret that she went to the Coles, but she does wonder if she should not have been so open with Frank about her suspicions about Jane and Mr. Dixon. She is also sorry that Jane can play and sing better than her. Harriet comes over, and she and Emma go out walking and run into Mrs. Weston and Frank on thei... | [
"Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles. The visit\nafforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she\nmight be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must\nbe amply repaid in the splendour of popularity. She must have delighted\nthe Coles--worthy people... |
937 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank sits near Emma, and when Jane approaches the piano she seems full of emotion. After her playing, Frank tries to talk to Jane about the piano and the Campbells, and Emma sees that he is trying to get after something and make Jane nervous. Emma tells him to stop, as she was just guessing about where the piano may h... | [
"The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was\ntranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment,\nslumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near\nher, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax,\nstanding with her back to them, intent on her... |
938 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After their little bit of dancing at the Coles, the young people soon want a ball and begin planning. The Westons' house is talked about, but it is decided that none of the rooms are big enough for the ten couples that will be invited to dance, so it is decided that they will have it at the Crown Inn. The Westons and F... | [
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been\nknown of young people passing many, many months successively, without\nbeing at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue\neither to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the\nfelicities of rapid motion have once b... |
939 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma is quite excited about the upcoming ball, but is disappointed by Mr. Knightley's indifference to it. Soon the joy is over though, when Frank gets a letter from Mr. Churchill urging him to come home, as Mrs. Churchill is ill. Although he does not feel any real alarm over his aunt's illness, Frank must go. He stops ... | [
"One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely\nsatisfactory to Emma--its being fixed for a day within the granted\nterm of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's\nconfidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the\nChurchills might not allow their nephew... |
940 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma dreams up many possible endings for her relationship with Frank. The conclusion of each is that she refuses him, so it strikes her that she cannot be very much in love with him. She realizes that she must be on her guard when they meet again so that she doesn't encourage him. Mrs. Weston receives a letter from Fra... | [
"Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love. Her ideas only varied as to the how much. At first, she thought it was a good deal; and afterwards, but little. She had great pleasure in hearing Frank Churchill talked of; and, for his sake, greater pleasure than ever in seeing Mr. and Mrs. Weston; she wa... |
941 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Elton is married, and Emma does not want to be the last to visit Mrs. Elton, so she soon visits, taking Harriet. After the short visit Emma is sure she does not like Mrs. Elton, as she is not elegant. Harriet says that she thinks she will not mind seeing Mr. and Mrs. Elton together as she thinks Mrs. Elton is charm... | [
"Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be\ninterrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and\nit must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to\nsettle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or\nnot pretty at all.",
"Emma had f... |
942 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At later meetings, Emma is even more convinced that Mrs. Elton is self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant and ill-bred, but Mr. Elton goes around congratulating himself on bringing such a woman to Highbury. Emma soon realizes that Mrs. Elton has drawn away from her and become cold and distant, probably since Emma... | [
"Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill\nopinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as\nMrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she appeared\nwhenever they met again,--self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant,\nand ill-bred. She had a ... |
945 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma later thinks about Frank Churchill, and thinks that her agitation at his visit is not for her, but for him. She hopes that this two-month separation will have cooled his feelings for her, and that he might not make a declaration of love for her. When indeed they do meet, Emma thinks that he is less in love with he... | [
"A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the\nnature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. She\nwas soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all\napprehensive or embarrassed; it was for him. Her own attachment had\nreally subsided into a mere nothing;... |
946 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day of the ball arrives, and Emma meets Frank there. Frank is standing by her, but he seems restless for the appearance of someone else. He passes it off as his excitement to meet Mrs. Elton. When everyone has arrived Frank stays by Emma, and they overhear Mrs. Elton talking to Jane. Frank is surprised when he hear... | [
"No misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball. The day approached,\nthe day arrived; and after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank\nChurchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before\ndinner, and every thing was safe.",
"No second meeting had there yet been between him and Emma. T... |
947 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma is quite glad that Mr. Knightley has reached the same conclusions about the Eltons as she has, and his admittance that Harriet would have been a better wife makes her quite happy. She also hopes that Harriet will stop her infatuation with Mr. Elton now that she sees what he is really like. That morning Emma is sur... | [
"This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable\npleasure. It was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which\nshe walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy.--She was extremely\nglad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting the\nEltons, and that their opinions of ... |
948 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few days later Harriet comes to Emma's and tells her that she is going to destroy some remembrances of Mr. Elton, as she will not give him another thought. Emma does not know what Harriet could have, as he never gave her anything, but the things turn out to be a piece of court-plaster he had played with one day and a... | [
"A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one\nmorning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down\nand hesitating, thus began:",
"\"Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I should\nlike to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you kn... |
949 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | June comes, and Mr. Knightley dislikes Frank Churchill even more than he did before. He fears that there is some double-dealing going on and that Emma will be hurt. He sees that outwardly Frank seems to be making Emma his object, but he thinks that he is really interested in Jane. He has seen him look at her, and an in... | [
"In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance, June opened upon\nHartfield. To Highbury in general it brought no material change. The\nEltons were still talking of a visit from the Sucklings, and of the use\nto be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her\ngrandmother's; and as the ret... |
950 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Mrs. Elton had talked so much about her sister and brother-in-law visiting, it turns out they cannot visit. It is decided that they will all take a trip to Box Hill anyway. When a horse goes lame they make the plan of going to Donwell instead. Mrs. Elton tries to take charge over who will be invited and what it w... | [
"After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs.\nSuckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification\nof hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn. No such\nimportation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at\npresent. In the daily interchange of... |
951 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They have a good day to go to Box Hill, but Emma finds that she is quite bored, and that no one is being entertaining. She and Frank start talking, and it turns into open flirtation. They try to get people to say entertaining things, and many of them do not want to, and then Emma says something to Miss Bates about how ... | [
"They had a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward\ncircumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in\nfavour of a pleasant party. Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating\nsafely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good\ntime. Emma and Harriet went togethe... |
952 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Emma goes to see Miss Bates quite early, in hopes to make up for how she had treated her. She finds that Jane is quite ill and will not be seen, but Emma talks to Miss Bates a while, and things seem to be fine between them again. Miss Bates tells Emma that Jane has accepted the position that Mrs. Elton fou... | [
"The wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma's thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, m... |
953 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Emma gets home she finds Mr. Knightley there. He has been waiting for her, but now he has to leave, as he needs to go to London to see John and Isabella. Emma is sure he has not forgiven her, but when her father says that she has been at Miss Bates' house, he is instantly relieved. He takes leave of them, and when... | [
"Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted;\nbut on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her. Mr.\nKnightley and Harriet had arrived during her absence, and were sitting\nwith her father.--Mr. Knightley immediately got up, and in a manner\ndecidedly graver than usual, said... |
954 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | About ten days after Mrs. Churchill's death, Mr. Weston comes to Hartfield to ask Emma to return home with him, as Mrs. Weston wants to see her. He seems quite serious, and Emma is concerned that something horrible has happened. When she gets there Mrs. Weston tells her that Frank had just been there and had told them ... | [
"One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's decease, Emma was\ncalled downstairs to Mr. Weston, who \"could not stay five minutes,\nand wanted particularly to speak with her.\"--He met her at the\nparlour-door, and hardly asking her how she did, in the natural key of\nhis voice, sunk it immediately, to say,... |
955 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma feels horrible for encouraging Harriet again to fall for a man that did not want her. She did not need to worry about why Jane had ignored her attentions; it must be from jealousy, as Jane must have seen her as a rival. Emma had promised that she would keep the secret about the engagement, but she still feels that... | [
"\"Harriet, poor Harriet!\"--Those were the words; in them lay the\ntormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted\nthe real misery of the business to her. Frank Churchill had behaved very\nill by herself--very ill in many ways,--but it was not so much _his_\nbehaviour as her _own_, which m... |
956 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma is thoroughly convinced of her love for Mr. Knightley, but she does not think that he could love her back in that way, as he has always tried to improve her and had most recently proved his impartiality by scolding her about her treatment of Miss Bates. Emma thinks again how she could not leave her father, and dec... | [
"Till now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being _first_ with Mr. Knightley, first in interest and affection.--Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found ho... |
957 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma decides to walk outside to try to make herself feel better, and she sees Mr. Knightley approaching her. She says that she has some news for him, and he replies that he had already heard about Jane and Frank Churchill this morning, right before he rode back. He starts to try to consol her, but she tells him that sh... | [
"The weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melancholy, seemed to reign at Hartfield--but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again. With all the eagerness which su... |
958 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Mr. Knightley go in to tea, and Mr. Woodhouse has no idea of any change with them, as they have decided not to tell anyone yet. That night Emma worries about how Harriet and her father will take the engagement between her and Mr. Knightley. She thought that while her father lived, they could not be married, bu... | [
"What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from\nwhat she had brought out!--she had then been only daring to hope for\na little respite of suffering;--she was now in an exquisite flutter of\nhappiness, and such happiness moreover as she believed must still be\ngreater when the flutter should... |
959 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Emma reads the letter she forgives Frank for his treatment of her. While she still feels that his conduct was wrong, it now seems less wrong. When Mr. Knightley arrives for a visit she has him read it, thinking that it might change his opinion of Frank. After reading it he says that he still thinks that Frank has... | [
"This letter must make its way to Emma's feelings. She was obliged, in\nspite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the\njustice that Mrs. Weston foretold. As soon as she came to her own name,\nit was irresistible; every line relating to herself was interesting,\nand almost every line agreeabl... |
960 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma gets an invitation to London for Harriet from Isabella, and Harriet accepts. It makes Emma feel better that Harriet will be in London with all of its distractions. She also decides to wait on telling her father about her and Mr. Knightley until after Mrs. Weston has her baby and he does not have to worry about her... | [
"It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as\nherself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough by\nletter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!",
"Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, without\nreproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet ... |
961 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone is made happy by Mrs. Weston's health at her giving birth to a baby girl. Mr. Knightley receives a letter from John Knightley in reply to the one that he sent announcing his engagement to Emma. Emma reads it and sees that he thinks that the advantage is all on Emma's side. Emma tells Mr. Knightley that she is ... | [
"Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the\nsatisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by\nknowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She had been decided in\nwishing for a Miss Weston. She would not acknowledge that it was with\nany view of making a match for he... |
962 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A bit of time passes, and one day Mr. Knightley tells Emma that he has some news for her. He tells her that Mr. Martin and Harriet Smith are going to be married. Emma is shocked, and Mr. Knightley thinks that she is taking the news bad because she does not want Harriet to marry Mr. Martin. Emma is quite relieved though... | [
"Time passed on. A few more to-morrows, and the party from London would\nbe arriving. It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one\nmorning, as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when\nMr. Knightley came in, and distressing thoughts were put by. After the\nfirst chat of pleasure h... |
963 | 158_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a few days the Knightleys and Harriet arrive from London. After a little time alone with Harriet, Emma sees that Mr. Martin has thoroughly taken the place of Mr. Knightley in her thoughts. Emma congratulates her on her engagement to Mr. Martin. Harriet's father turns out to be a tradesman, and not a gentleman, and E... | [
"If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a\nmomentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her\nattachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from\nunbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the\nrecurrence of any such uncerta... |
973 | 11_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins as a pleasant fairy tale. Alice and her sister are reading a book that has neither pictures nor conversations. Alice finds the reading tedious; she is anxious for more vivid and direct forms of experience. Her boredom and anxiety cause her to withdraw from the "civilized pastime"... | [
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the\nbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the\nbook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in\nit, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or\nconversations?'",
"So ... |
974 | 11_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As things turn out, the magic cake has a delayed effect. Suddenly, Alice's neck shoots up like a telescope, unfurling until her head touches the ceiling. "Curiouser and curiouser!" she exclaims. But that is all she says; she isn't angry, and her ungrammatical outburst is merely indicative of her being a surprised child... | [
"'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that\nfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); 'now I'm\nopening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!'\n(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of\nsight, they were getting so ... |
975 | 11_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "How to dry off" is the central concern at the beginning of this chapter. Alice finds herself embroiled in a heated discussion with the Lory over who knows best how to dry off. The Lory cuts off the argument with the declaration that he is wiser than Alice because he is older than she is. In this dispute Alice becomes ... | [
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the\nbirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close\nto them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.",
"The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a\nconsultation about this, and after a few... |
976 | 11_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a dramatic, magical shift, Alice suddenly finds herself in the presence of the White Rabbit. But the glass table and the great hall have vanished. There is a clear contrast between the calmness of Alice and the nervous, agitated White Rabbit, looking frantically for his lost fan and gloves. Typically, however, the W... | [
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking\nanxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard\nit muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh\nmy fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are\nferrets! Where CAN I have dropped the... |
977 | 11_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice is well acquainted by now with the prime principle of Wonderland's chaos: illogic. Yet she continues -- almost by instinct -- to oppose the illogical context in which she continually finds herself. Yet her experience so far should have prepared her for the possibility that the "pebble-cake" might not have reduced... | [
"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence:\nat last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed\nher in a languid, sleepy voice.",
"'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.",
"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied,\nrather shyly, 'I-... |
978 | 11_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Caterpillar's nasty mood, even if he does seem nonchalant, is a subtle symbol of all the verbal chaos in Wonderland. Yet, here, in Chapter VI, that linguistic nonsense is replaced by random, violent, physical disorder in the action of the story. Alice has come upon a house, just as a Fish-Footman delivers a letter ... | [
"For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what\nto do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the\nwood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery:\notherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a\nfish)--and rapped loudly at the door ... |
979 | 11_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Linguistic assaults are very much a part of the "polite bantering" in Wonderland. Often, traumatic and verbal violence seems just about to erupt all the time, breaking through the thin veneer of civilized behavior, but it rarely does. Alice reaches the March Hare's house in time for an outdoor tea-party. The tea-party ... | [
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the\nMarch Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting\nbetween them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a\ncushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very\nuncomfortable for the Dormouse,' th... |
980 | 11_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At last, Alice finds herself in the garden that she has so long sought to explore. Far from being a wild Eden, though, the garden is well cultivated and tended. And now Alice meets a whole set of new creatures -- this time, several animated playing cards. Immediately, she finds out that the Spades are, of course, the g... | [
"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses\ngrowing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily\npainting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went\nnearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of\nthem say, 'Look out now, Five... |
981 | 11_chapters_9-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice's major problem with Wonderland continues to be her inability to completely penetrate what she thinks exists -- that is, its "logic." The Queen has a soldier fetch the Duchess at the close of the last chapter, and Alice finds the Duchess in a surprisingly good mood. Alice attributes, logically, her previous ill-t... | [
"'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!'\nsaid the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and\nthey walked off together.",
"Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought\nto herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so... |
982 | 11_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The book begins with a poem about a golden afternoon spent rowing on a river; the speaker of the poem is pressed by three girls to tell them a fantastic story. Each time he tries to take a break and leave the rest for "next time," the girls insist that it is already "next time"; in this way, the speaker tells us, the s... | [
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the\nbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the\nbook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in\nit, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or\nconversations?'",
"So ... |
983 | 11_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The White Rabbit comes, fretting about his missing things and the wrath of the Dutchess. Alice looks around for the White Rabbit's gloves and fan, but everything has changed: she sees that the hall with its many doors has disappeared completely. The White Rabbit sees Alice and mistakes her for his maid. When he orders ... | [
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking\nanxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard\nit muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh\nmy fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are\nferrets! Where CAN I have dropped the... |
984 | 11_chapters_7-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice finds the March Hare, the Hatter, and the Dormouse sitting all together at one end of a large table. The Dormouse sits between the other two, fast asleep. They are disagreeable from the start, and Alice's conversation with them is confusing even by Wonderland standards. They contradict Alice at every turn, correc... | [
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the\nMarch Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting\nbetween them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a\ncushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very\nuncomfortable for the Dormouse,' th... |
985 | 11_chapters_10-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon talk with non-stop puns. They talk to Alice about the dances they used to have: among them was the Lobster Quadrille, a dance that sounds somewhat like a square dance, except everyone has a lobster for a partner. They demonstrate for Alice, without using the lobsters, and Alice attends p... | [
"The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across\nhis eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or\ntwo sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,'\nsaid the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in\nthe back. At last the Mock Turtl... |
973 | 11_chapter_1_down_the_rabbit_hole | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice sits drowsily by a riverbank, bored by the book her older sister reads to her. Out of nowhere, a White Rabbit runs past her, fretting that he will be late. The Rabbit pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket and runs across the field and down a hole. Alice impulsively follows the Rabbit and tumbles down the deep... | [
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the\nbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the\nbook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in\nit, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or\nconversations?'",
"So ... |
974 | 11_chapter_2_the_pool_of_tears | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After finishing the cake that says "EAT ME," Alice grows to nine feet tall and finds that she can barely get an eye down to the doorway. She begins to cry, and her massive tears form a sizable pool at her feet. The White Rabbit reappears and mutters to himself about keeping a Duchess waiting. Alice attempts to speak to... | [
"'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that\nfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); 'now I'm\nopening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!'\n(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of\nsight, they were getting so ... |
975 | 11_chapter_3_a_caucus_race_and_a_long_tale | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice and the group of animals land on the bank and focus on getting dry. Alice begins arguing with the Lory, but the Mouse interjects and commands everyone to sit down and listen to a history lesson. The Mouse reasons that the story of William the Conqueror would be best since this story is the driest thing it knows. ... | [
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the\nbirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close\nto them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.",
"The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a\nconsultation about this, and after a few... |
976 | 11_chapter_4_the_rabbit_sends_in_a_little_bill | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The White Rabbit approaches Alice, looking for his gloves and fan. Alice searches dutifully but cannot find them. The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his housemaid, Mary Ann, and commands her to go to his house and fetch his things. Startled by the Rabbit's demands, Alice obeys and soon finds his house. As she walks, s... | [
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking\nanxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard\nit muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh\nmy fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are\nferrets! Where CAN I have dropped the... |
977 | 11_chapter_5_advice_from_a_caterpillar | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice comes across a Caterpillar that is resting on top of a giant mushroom and smoking a hookah pipe. The two stare at each other in silence for a while before the Caterpillar asks Alice, "Who are you?" Alice has trouble explaining who she is to the antagonistic and contemptuous Caterpillar. Dejected, she turns to lea... | [
"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence:\nat last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed\nher in a languid, sleepy voice.",
"'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.",
"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied,\nrather shyly, 'I-... |
978 | 11_chapter_6_pig_and_pepper | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From the wood, Alice sees a fish in footman's livery approach the house and knock on the door. A similarly dressed frog answers the door and receives a letter inviting the Duchess to play croquet with the Queen. After the Fish Footman leaves, Alice approaches the Frog Footman, who sits on the ground staring stupidly up... | [
"For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what\nto do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the\nwood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery:\notherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a\nfish)--and rapped loudly at the door ... |
979 | 11_chapter_7_a_mad_tea_party | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice approaches a large table set under the tree outside the March Hare's house and comes across the Mad Hatter and the March Hare taking tea. They rest their elbows on a sleeping Dormouse who sits between them. They tell Alice that there is no room for her at the table, but Alice sits anyway. The March Hare offers Al... | [
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the\nMarch Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting\nbetween them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a\ncushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very\nuncomfortable for the Dormouse,' th... |
980 | 11_chapter_8_the_queen's_croquet_ground | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice enters the garden and meets three gardeners in the shape of playing cards. The gardeners Two, Five, and Seven bicker with each other as they paint the white roses on the rose trees red. Upon noticing Alice, the gardeners explain that they have planted white rose trees by mistake and must paint them red before the... | [
"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses\ngrowing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily\npainting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went\nnearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of\nthem say, 'Look out now, Five... |
986 | 11_chapter_9_the_mock_turtle's_story | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the disappearance of the Cheshire Cat, the croquet game starts up again and the Duchess takes Alice's arm. The two start to walk, and Alice becomes uncomfortable that the Duchess holds her so close. Alice thinks that the Duchess is behaving pleasantly because there isn't any pepper present. The two walk and talk,... | [
"'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!'\nsaid the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and\nthey walked off together.",
"Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought\nto herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so... |
987 | 11_chapter_10_the_lobster_quadrille | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Mock Turtle continues to sigh and sob and finally asks Alice if she has ever been introduced to a lobster. Alice almost volunteers that she once tasted one, but checks herself and simply says no. The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon describe the Lobster-Quadrille, a dance where all of the sea animals partner up with th... | [
"The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across\nhis eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or\ntwo sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,'\nsaid the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in\nthe back. At last the Mock Turtl... |
988 | 11_chapter_11_who_stole_the_tarts? | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice arrives in the courtroom and finds the King and Queen of Hearts on their thrones, surrounded by a large crowd of animals and the whole deck of cards. The Knave lies chained before them. Alice surveys the room and takes great pleasure in identifying the various features of a court of law that she has read about. A... | [
"The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they\narrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little\nbirds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was\nstanding before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard\nhim; and near the King was the White... |
989 | 11_chapter_12_alice's_evidence | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice jumps to the White Rabbit's call to the stand. She forgets that she has grown larger and knocks over the jury stand, then scrambles to put all of the jurors back. Alice claims to know "nothing whatever" about the tarts, which the King deems "very important." The White Rabbit corrects the King, suggesting that he ... | [
"'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how\nlarge she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such\na hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt,\nupsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there\nthey lay sprawling about, re... |
990 | 19033_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tired of sitting with her sister at the bank of a river, having nothing to do, Alice decides to make a daisy chain since it would involve getting up and picking up daisies. It is at this time that she spots a dear old rabbit with pink eyes dart across the grass. What intrigues her greatly is the manner in which the rab... | [
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the\nbank, and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the\nbook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in\nit, \"and what is the use of a book,\" thought Alice, \"without pictures or\nconversations?\"",
... |
991 | 19033_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter begins with the realization of the effect that the cake has had on Alice. She is not able to spot her two little feet and this fills her with a fear. She starts to think of the different presents that she would send her two feet for Christmas. Dejected at the turn of events, she bursts into tears and it is... | [
"\"Curiouser and curiouser!\" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that\nfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). \"Now I'm\nopening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh,\nmy poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings\nfor you now, dears? I sh... |
992 | 19033_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter titled "The Caucus -Race and a Long Tale" relates the efforts on the part of the queer group of birds, animals and Alice to get themselves to dry soon. The effort begins with the mouse relating a story about "William The Conqueror". This does not help the party in any way and therefore, the dodo suggests t... | [
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the\nbirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close\nto them, and all dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable.",
"[Illustration]",
"The first question, of course, was how to get dry again. They had a\nconsultation about t... |
993 | 19033_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is at this time that the White Rabbit comes back and frantically searches for its fan and its gloves. Alice good-naturedly tries to help the Rabbit in searching for them. Very soon the Rabbit spots Alice, refers to her as Mary Ann, his house housekeeper and orders her to fetch him a pair of gloves and a fan. Alice i... | [
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking\nanxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it\nmuttering to itself, \"The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my\nfur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are\nferrets! Where _can_ I have dropped ... |
994 | 19033_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter is all about the manner in which Alice tries to regain her size and that too with the help of a caterpillar. It is difficult to present a summary of the conversation between Alice and Caterpillar, since it is something that cannot be easily captured in words. Alice is upset with the constant changes that h... | [
"At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed\nAlice in a languid, sleepy voice.",
"\"Who are _you_?\" said the Caterpillar.",
"[Illustration]",
"Alice replied, rather shyly, \"I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at\nleast I know who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I thin... |
995 | 19033_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For some time Alice stood outside the house wondering what she should be doing next. It is at this time that she sees a footman come out of the wood and knock on the door. The door is opened by another footman in livery. The first footman produces a letter of invitation for the Duchess from the Queen to play croquet. O... | [
"For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, when suddenly a\nfootman in livery came running out of the wood (judging by his face\nonly, she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door\nwith his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery, with a\nround face and large eyes like a f... |
996 | 19033_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In front of the house is a tree, under which is set a table for a tea party. March Hare and the Mad Hatter are having tea. Between them is seated the Dormouse who is fast asleep and the other two are using the dormouse as a cushion for resting their elbows on it and they talk over its head. On seeing Alice, both of the... | [
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the\nMarch Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it; a Dormouse was sitting\nbetween them, fast asleep.",
"The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at\none corner of it. \"No room! No room!\" they cried out when they saw... |
997 | 19033_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice finds a large white-rose tree near the entrance of the garden. An unusual spectacle greets her there. She notices that the gardeners here are all animated playing cards, Spades. Three of them, "two," "five," " seven" are busy trying to paint the rose bush red. On inquiring, she is told that the queen had ordered ... | [
"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden; the roses\ngrowing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily\npainting them red. Suddenly their eyes chanced to fall upon Alice, as\nshe stood watching them. \"Would you tell me, please,\" said Alice, a\nlittle timidly, \"why you are pai... |
998 | 19033_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duchess is fetched by the Queens soldier. She appears happy to see Alice and is relieved that she will not be executed. The conversation between the Duchess and Alice is packed with statements and the moral of each of these statements. This is enough to disorient Alice, since she has never thought that everything t... | [
"The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they\narrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little\nbirds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was\nstanding before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard\nhim; and near the King was the White... |
999 | 19033_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duchess is fetched by the Queens soldier. She appears happy to see Alice and is relieved that she will not be executed. The conversation between the Duchess and Alice is packed with statements and the moral of each of these statements. This is enough to disorient Alice, since she has never thought that everything t... | [
"\"Here!\" cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over\nthe jury-box, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd\nbelow.",
"\"Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!\" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay.",
"\"The trial cannot proceed,\" said the King, \"until all the jurymen are\nback in t... |
990 | 19033_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this short, introductory chapter we are introduced to Alice, a young girl, who is sitting on the bank of a river with her older sister. Alice is bored and a bit sleepy, but she is startled awake by a talking White Rabbit who hops by with a pocket watch. Alice follows the rabbit down his rabbit hole, but loses him al... | [
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the\nbank, and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the\nbook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in\nit, \"and what is the use of a book,\" thought Alice, \"without pictures or\nconversations?\"",
... |
991 | 19033_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Alice expected, at the beginning of this chapter the cake indeed does make her grow quite tall. As she is growing to adult proportions Alice begins to worry about her feet, her tiny feet, as though they were children. In this way Alice's manner of speaking becomes more adult and motherly. She decides that, in order ... | [
"\"Curiouser and curiouser!\" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that\nfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). \"Now I'm\nopening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh,\nmy poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings\nfor you now, dears? I sh... |
992 | 19033_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice and the assembly of birds and the mouse are all wet upon the shore. A good deal of confusion erupts over how they should get dry. Finally the Mouse decides the best way to make everyone dry is to tell a very dry story . This ironic play on words, however, does little to dry anyone so a new plan is devised by the ... | [
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the\nbirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close\nto them, and all dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable.",
"[Illustration]",
"The first question, of course, was how to get dry again. They had a\nconsultation about t... |
993 | 19033_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with Alice again running into the White Rabbit. The Rabbit is running back toward Alice because he has lost his Gloves and Fan Alice doesn't have them though, so she can't help him. But then the Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid and commands her back to his cottage for the items in question. Still o... | [
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking\nanxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it\nmuttering to itself, \"The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my\nfur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are\nferrets! Where _can_ I have dropped ... |
994 | 19033_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice stands before a large Caterpillar on a large mushroom and the Caterpillar is smoking a hookah. To be frank, a hookah is a very large water bong designed by the Persians for the purpose of smoking any number of drugs. In Victorian England, the hookah was a symbol for Eastern Wisdom and was associated heavily with ... | [
"At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed\nAlice in a languid, sleepy voice.",
"\"Who are _you_?\" said the Caterpillar.",
"[Illustration]",
"Alice replied, rather shyly, \"I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at\nleast I know who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I thin... |
995 | 19033_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice, while still in the dense wood, comes upon a very small house which she uses her mushroom to shrink to the proportions of. From behind some brush she watches as a fish, dressed as a footman, delivers an invitation to a frog dressed as a footman. The business is transacted at the door of the small house. The invit... | [
"For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, when suddenly a\nfootman in livery came running out of the wood (judging by his face\nonly, she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door\nwith his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery, with a\nround face and large eyes like a f... |
996 | 19033_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice approaches a tea party which consists of a Mad Hatter, a March Hare and a sleeping Doormouse. The whole party is rude to her, but she chooses to join them anyway and begins to engage them in conversation. The conversation, in someway, concerns riddles with no answers, but in general consists of a series of wordpl... | [
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the\nMarch Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it; a Dormouse was sitting\nbetween them, fast asleep.",
"The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at\none corner of it. \"No room! No room!\" they cried out when they saw... |
997 | 19033_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice comes into the garden and discovers that it is the Queen's garden. There she finds several playing-card-shaped men painting the Queen's white roses red. This is because they accidentally planted a white rose bush instead of a red one. Symbol Alert! Many scholars have been concerned with the literal symbolism of t... | [
"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden; the roses\ngrowing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily\npainting them red. Suddenly their eyes chanced to fall upon Alice, as\nshe stood watching them. \"Would you tell me, please,\" said Alice, a\nlittle timidly, \"why you are pai... |
998 | 19033_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice finds herself in the beginning of this chapter in the annoying company of the Duchess. They conversed, sort of, about the goings on of the day, but mostly Alice thought to herself and the Duchess tried to find simplistic morals in everything. The conversation, on the whole, ended up being about how boring politen... | [
"The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they\narrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little\nbirds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was\nstanding before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard\nhim; and near the King was the White... |
999 | 19033_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter the Turtle describes a kind of line dance which is acted out between many assorted sea creatures each paired with a lobster for a partner. However, the principle part of this chapter is actually devoted to the Song sung during the quadrille. After singing the song of the Lobster-Quadrille, the Mock Turt... | [
"\"Here!\" cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over\nthe jury-box, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd\nbelow.",
"\"Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!\" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay.",
"\"The trial cannot proceed,\" said the King, \"until all the jurymen are\nback in t... |
1,000 | 105_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The opening chapter introduces Sir Walter Elliot and his immediate family to the reader. Sir Walter, baronet of Kellynch Hall, is a man for whom "vanity of person and situation" is everything . He reads only one book -- the Baronetage, a record of English nobility -- in which the Elliot family is listed as follows: Wal... | [
"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,\nfor his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there\nhe found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed\none; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by\ncontemplating the limited remn... |
1,001 | 105_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As it turns out, Admiral Croft's wife is the sister of one Mr. Wentworth, who formerly lived near the Elliots at Monkford. The name of Captain Frederick Wentworth has particular importance to Anne -- one that makes her cheeks flushed and that inspires in her a "gentle sigh" . Just over seven years ago, Captain Wentwort... | [
"He was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however\nsuspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his\nbrother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St\nDomingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in\nthe summer of 1806; and having no pa... |
1,002 | 105_chapters_7-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Captain Wentworth arrives at Kellynch, Mr. Musgrove pays him a visit and invites him to dine at Uppercross. Several days later, on the night that the captain returns Mr. Musgrove's visit, Charles, Mary, and Anne also engage to dine at the Great House. As it turns out, however, they are unable to attend due to a l... | [
"A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at\nKellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his\npraise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by\nthe end of another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr\nMusgrove to find that no earlier day coul... |
1,003 | 105_chapters_11-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the date of Lady Russell's return approaches, Anne ponders how her move back to Kellynch Hall will affect her life. On the one hand, she will be closer to Captain Wentworth; but on the other hand, he spends so much time at Uppercross that she may be able to avoid seeing him as much. A greater cause of anxiety is the... | [
"The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even\nfixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was\nresettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and\nbeginning to think how her own comfort was likely to be affected by it.",
"It would place her in the same villa... |
1,004 | 105_chapters_15-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Camden Place at Bath, Sir Walter has taken a dignified house. Although Anne dreads the months ahead that she must spend with Sir Walter, Elizabeth, and Mrs. Clay, she is surprised pleasantly by a cordial welcome. Her father and sister are eager to show her their house, which has become an extremely popular place to ... | [
"Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty\ndignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he\nand Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.",
"Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of\nmany months, and anxiously saying to her... |
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