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2,331 | 103_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The railway between New York and San Francisco is described along with the politics of it. The long artery, which has to be traversed in seven days to reach New York, is outlined. Then the train carriages are interestingly detailed. Passepartout and Fix are now distanced from each other. Passepartout is reserved and su... | [
"\"From ocean to ocean\"--so say the Americans; and these four words\ncompose the general designation of the \"great trunk line\" which crosses\nthe entire width of the United States. The Pacific Railroad is,\nhowever, really divided into two distinct lines: the Central Pacific,\nbetween San Francisco and Ogden, a... |
2,332 | 103_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The train continues on its path. Passepartout steps down at a station, when he sees an interesting man-tall, very dark, who looked like a parson. This man goes from one part of the train to another and announces that he will give a lecture on Mormonism in car No. 117. Thirty people are drawn by the attraction of a lect... | [
"During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran south-easterly\nfor about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a north-easterly\ndirection, towards the Great Salt Lake.",
"Passepartout, about nine o'clock, went out upon the platform to take\nthe air. The weather was cold, the heavens grey, but it ... |
2,333 | 103_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The train moves on a northerly course for an hour and it is in this area that the trains face the maximum difficulties. The train passes many streams, while Passepartout's impatience grows. During the night, there is heavy snow and Passepartout starts worrying. Meanwhile, Aouda had spotted Colonel Stamp Proctor on a st... | [
"The train, on leaving Great Salt Lake at Ogden, passed northward for an\nhour as far as Weber River, having completed nearly nine hundred miles\nfrom San Francisco. From this point it took an easterly direction\ntowards the jagged Wahsatch Mountains. It was in the section included\nbetween this range and the Roc... |
2,334 | 103_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The train pursues its course. Thirteen hundred and eighty two miles had now been traveled over from San Francisco in three days and three nights. Fogg and his partners were busy with cards, when suddenly Colonel Proctor is among them. He is rude and sarcastic to Fogg and there is a war of words. Fogg and the Colonel de... | [
"The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption,\npassing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass.\nThe road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight\nthousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea. The\ntravellers had now only to descend to the Atla... |
2,335 | 103_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three passengers including Passepartout had disappeared. Some were wounded including Colonel Proctor. Aouda was safe and Fix had received a slight wound. Aouda was crying for Passepartout while Fogg was grave. Fogg resolves to go looking for the missing Passepartout and he talks to the Captain of Fort Kearney Station a... | [
"Three passengers including Passepartout had disappeared. Had they been\nkilled in the struggle? Were they taken prisoners by the Sioux? It\nwas impossible to tell.",
"There were many wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of\nthe most seriously hurt; he had fought bravely, and a ball had entered... |
2,336 | 103_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Phileas Fogg was now twenty hours behind time and Passepartout was desperate. Fix then comes to Fogg with the suggestion that they travel to Omaha on a sledge with sails. Fogg meets the American named Mudge, who had suggested this innovation. Fogg inspects the somewhat strange vehicle and agrees to travel in this sledg... | [
"Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time. Passepartout, the\ninvoluntary cause of this delay, was desperate. He had ruined his\nmaster!",
"At this moment the detective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking him\nintently in the face, said:",
"\"Seriously, sir, are you in great haste?\"",
"\"Quite ser... |
2,337 | 103_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fogg's last hope seemed to have gone with the 'China', the boat that leaves for Liverpool from New York. Passepartout is crushed by the fact that the boat has been missed because of him. Fogg merely says that they will decide the next day, on what needs to be done. They stay the night at a Hotel and the next day, Fogg ... | [
"The China, in leaving, seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg's last\nhope. None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects. The\nPereire, of the French Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers\nare equal to any in speed and comfort, did not leave until the 14th;\nthe Hamburg boats did not go ... |
2,338 | 103_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After one day of being on the 'Henrietta', Fogg takes over as the Captain of the ship after having bribed the entire crew and after locking Andrew Speedy in a cabin. Fogg wished to take the ship to Liverpool. Everything went well for the first few days and then the ship got caught in a gale. The ship has to fight the w... | [
"An hour after, the Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the\nentrance of the Hudson, turned the point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea.\nDuring the day she skirted Long Island, passed Fire Island, and\ndirected her course rapidly eastward.",
"At noon the next day, a man mounted the bridge to ascertain the\nv... |
2,339 | 103_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fogg is in the prison. He is confined in the Custom House lock up. Aouda is shocked by Fogg's arrest whereas, Passepartout feels guilty. While Fogg sits in prison, Passepartout calmly watches the hands of a watch move ahead. The thought of trying to escape the prison does cross his mind but there is no way out. While e... | [
"Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House,\nand he was to be transferred to London the next day.",
"Passepartout, when he saw his master arrested, would have fallen upon\nFix had he not been held back by some policemen. Aouda was\nthunderstruck at the suddenness of an event which she ... |
2,340 | 103_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout return to the Savile Row house. Fogg seems calm outwardly though his fortune had completely dwindled. A room in the house was set apart for Aouda. Aouda and Passepartout are both worried about Fogg as they expect him to do something rash. Passepartout continues to feel guilty and even tells... | [
"The dwellers in Saville Row would have been surprised the next day, if\nthey had been told that Phileas Fogg had returned home. His doors and\nwindows were still closed, no appearance of change was visible.",
"After leaving the station, Mr. Fogg gave Passepartout instructions to\npurchase some provisions, and q... |
2,341 | 103_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, the state of England is described. Once the real thief is arrested everyone starts taking interest in Fogg's wager once again. Betting is revived. A great crowd gathers near the Reform Club on Saturday evening. In the meantime Fogg's five fellow club members and whist partners come together at the Club... | [
"It is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion\nwhen it transpired that the real bankrobber, a certain James Strand,\nhad been arrested, on the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh. Three\ndays before, Phileas Fogg had been a criminal, who was being\ndesperately followed up by the police; n... |
2,342 | 103_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter it is explained how Phileas Fogg happened to make it on time to the Reform Club. We are taken back to the time when Passepartout is asked to arrange for Fogg and Aouda's marriage. When he goes to meet the clergyman, he realizes that the marriage cannot take place the next day, because it is a Sunday. It... | [
"IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS TOUR\nAROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS",
"Yes; Phileas Fogg in person.",
"The reader will remember that at five minutes past eight in the\nevening--about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the\ntravellers in London--Passepartout had... |
2,350 | 23_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass begins his Narrative by explaining that he is like many other slaves who don't know when they were born and, sometimes, even who their parents are. From hearsay, he estimates that he was born around 1817 and that his father was probably his first white master, Captain Anthony. His mother, Harriet Bailey, was a... | [
"I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from\nEaston, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my\nage, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the\nlarger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of\ntheirs, and it is the wish... |
2,351 | 23_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass describes his master's family and their relationship with Colonel Lloyd, who was sort of a "grand master" of the area. Douglass explains that if slaves broke plantation rules, tried to run away, or became generally "unmanageable," they were whipped and shipped to Baltimore to be sold to slave traders as a "war... | [
"My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one\ndaughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in\none house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. My master\nwas Colonel Lloyd's clerk and superintendent. He was what might be\ncalled the overseer of the overseer... |
2,352 | 23_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Douglass went to live at Colonel Lloyd's plantation, he was awed by the splendor he saw. Douglass heard that Lloyd owned approximately a thousand slaves, and he believes that this estimate is probably accurate. Lloyd was especially renowned for his beautiful garden, which people traveled many miles to view. Unfort... | [
"Colonel Lloyd kept a large and finely cultivated garden, which afforded almost constant employment for four men, besides the chief gardener, (Mr. M'Durmond.) This garden was probably the greatest attraction of the place. During the summer months, people came from far and near--from Baltimore, Easton, and Annapolis... |
2,353 | 23_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hopkins was eventually replaced by Gore, an ambitious overseer who was exceptionally cruel. Douglass remembers an episode when Gore whipped a slave named Demby so badly that Demby ran into a deep, flowing creek to soothe his shoulders. Gore warned that he would shoot if Demby didn't come out of the creek. Gore counted ... | [
"Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Why his\ncareer was so short, I do not know, but suppose he lacked the necessary\nseverity to suit Colonel Lloyd. Mr. Hopkins was succeeded by Mr. Austin\nGore, a man possessing, in an eminent degree, all those traits of\ncharacter indispensable to w... |
2,354 | 23_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass further describes the conditions of slave children on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, telling us that his own experience was typical of slave children. Although he was seldom whipped, he was constantly hungry and cold. Even in the dead of winter, he was given nothing but a long shirt to wear, and, at night, he wou... | [
"As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd's plantation,\nit was very similar to that of the other slave children. I was not old\nenough to work in the field, and there being little else than field work\nto do, I had a great deal of leisure time. The most I had to do was to\ndrive up the cows at evening... |
2,355 | 23_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Sophia Auld was unlike any white person Douglass had met before because she had "the kindest heart and finest feelings." She had never owned a slave, and, prior to her marriage, she was an industrious weaver. But her personality soon changed. At first, Mrs. Auld taught Douglass how to read, but Mr. Auld admonished... | [
"My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at\nthe door,--a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had\nnever had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to\nher marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and... |
2,356 | 23_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass spent about seven years in Master Hugh's house, and, in secret, he learned to read and write during that time, despite the fact that the once-kindly Mrs. Auld soon internalized the evils of being a slave owner. She accepted the advice of her husband and became a strident advocate of keeping slaves illiterate, ... | [
"I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I\nsucceeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was\ncompelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My\nmistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance\nwith the advice and directio... |
2,357 | 23_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a digression, Douglass tells us that about five years after he had been living in Baltimore, his old master, Captain Anthony, died, and Douglass was sent back to the plantation for a valuation so that all of the captain's property could be appraised and divided up among his relatives. "Men and women, old and young, ... | [
"In a very short time after I went to live at Baltimore, my old master's\nyoungest son Richard died; and in about three years and six months after\nhis death, my old master, Captain Anthony, died, leaving only his son,\nAndrew, and daughter, Lucretia, to share his estate. He died while on a\nvisit to see his daught... |
2,358 | 23_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass returned to Master Thomas Auld's household in St. Michael's, Talbot County, Maryland, in March 1832. His new master gave him little food to sustain himself, for Auld was born poor and only acquired property and slaves through marriage. Douglass and other slaves were apparently very contemptuous of him. Douglas... | [
"I have now reached a period of my life when I can give dates. I left\nBaltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael's,\nin March, 1832. It was now more than seven years since I lived with him\nin the family of my old master, on Colonel Lloyd's plantation. We of\ncourse were now almost entire ... |
2,359 | 23_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglas spent a year with Covey, during which he was frequently and brutally whipped. Having spent considerable time in the city, Douglass was not familiar with farm instruments and techniques. Because of this unfamiliarity, he made mistakes and was continually punished. Covey pushed his slaves to the limit, making the... | [
"I had left Master Thomas's house, and went to live with Mr. Covey, on\nthe 1st of January, 1833. I was now, for the first time in my life, a\nfield hand. In my new employment, I found myself even more awkward than\na country boy appeared to be in a large city. I had been at my new home\nbut one week before Mr. Cov... |
2,360 | 23_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Douglass escapes to the North in this chapter but is not forthcoming about how he managed this feat. He explains that his method of escape is still used by other slaves and thus he doesn't want to publicize it. Douglass adds that the underground railroad should be called the "upperground railroad," and he honors "those... | [
"I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally\nsucceeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of\nthe peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention\nnot to state all the facts connected with the transaction. My reasons\nfor pursuing this course ... |
2,361 | 1429_"at_the_bay" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I The whole of Crescents Bay was hidden under a white sea mist, the beach barely distinguishable from the waters beyond. The sun had not yet risen but over the horizon a flock of sheep came into view. A shepherd and his companion, Wag the dog, led them. The shepherd was a tall older gentleman with a yellow walking stic... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n1. AT THE BAY. Chapter 1.I.",
"Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent\nBay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the\nback were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks\nand bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and ... |
2,362 | 1429_"the_garden_party" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it " . Warm, windless, without a cloud in the sky, the Sheridan's garden party was expected to be a great success. Still at breakfast, Laura, Meg, Jose Sheridan and their mother sat discussing arrangements for the party. Mrs. Sheridan de... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2. THE GARDEN PARTY.",
"And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more\nperfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm,\nthe sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light\ngold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been u... |
2,363 | 1429_"the_daughters_of_the_late_colonel" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I "The week after was one of the busiest of their lives" . Josephine and Constantia, daughters of the late Colonel Pinner, sat awake in their beds trying to remember if they had forgotten anything. Constantia asked Josephine if they should give their father's top hat to the porter. She had noticed during their father's... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE COLONEL. Chapter 3.I.",
"The week after was one of the busiest weeks of their lives. Even when\nthey went to bed it was only their bodies that lay down and rested;\ntheir minds went on, thinking things out, talking things over,\nwondering, deciding, trying to remember wher... |
2,364 | 1429_"mr._and_mrs._dove" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Reggie knew he had little chance of convincing Anne Proctor to marry him. While dressing in his room Reggie imagined the different ways in which Anne would reject his proposal but he felt he had to at least try before he left. His Uncle had given him a fruit farm in Rhodesia and he was due to leave England for the isla... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4. MR. AND MRS. DOVE.",
"Of course he knew--no man better--that he hadn't a ghost of a chance,\nhe hadn't an earthly. The very idea of such a thing was preposterous.\nSo preposterous that he'd perfectly understand it if her father--well,\nwhatever her father chose to do he'd perfectly understand. In f... |
2,365 | 1429_"the_young_girl" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Raddick's and her beautiful daughter waited on the steps of the casino. The daughter was incredibly beautiful with flushed cheeks, blue eyes, and golden curls. She "might have just dropped from this radiant heaven" , and Mrs. Raddick seemed to think so too -- if her appreciative glances were any indication. The gi... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5. THE YOUNG GIRL.",
"In her blue dress, with her cheeks lightly flushed, her blue, blue eyes,\nand her gold curls pinned up as though for the first time--pinned up\nto be out of the way for her flight--Mrs. Raddick's daughter might have\njust dropped from this radiant heaven. Mrs. Raddick's timid, fa... |
2,366 | 1429_"life_of_ma_parker" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The literary gentleman opened the door of his flat to Ma Parker, his housekeeper. He asked after her beloved grandson, Lennie. Ma Parker replied, "We buried 'im yesterday, sir" . Shocked, the gentleman offered his condolences and asked after the success of the funeral. Ma Parker did not elaborate and walked past him to... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6. LIFE OF MA PARKER.",
"When the literary gentleman, whose flat old Ma Parker cleaned every\nTuesday, opened the door to her that morning, he asked after her\ngrandson. Ma Parker stood on the doormat inside the dark little hall,\nand she stretched out her hand to help her gentleman shut the door\nbef... |
2,367 | 1429_"marriage_a_la_mode" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | William was on his way to the train station when he remembered he hadn't bought anything for his two sons. He always arrived home every weekend with a small gift for his boys, usually candy but he had given them sweets during the last four visits and wanted to give Paddy and Johnny a new treat. Toys were out. Williams'... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7. MARRIAGE A LA MODE.",
"On his way to the station William remembered with a fresh pang of\ndisappointment that he was taking nothing down to the kiddies. Poor\nlittle chaps! It was hard lines on them. Their first words always were\nas they ran to greet him, \"What have you got for me, daddy?\" and h... |
2,368 | 1429_"the_voyage" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fenella hurried toward the Picton boat with her father and Grandma. The night was mild, the sky starry but Fenella took little joy in it, sensing her Father's unease. Her Grandma's fancy umbrella with the swan head handle was tucked into the luggage Fenella had strapped to her back. The swan head pecked her repeatedly ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8. THE VOYAGE.",
"The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful\nnight, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to\nwalk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind\nblowing off the water ruffled under Fenella's hat, and she put up h... |
2,369 | 1429_"miss_brill" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although the day was warm, Miss Brill was happy she had decided to wear her fur. She had taken it out that morning for the first time all season, brushing its coat and polishing its eyes. She enjoyed the way its sad eyes looked up at her and how soft the fur was. Miss Brill called it "little rogue" and liked how its he... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n9. MISS BRILL.",
"Although it was so brilliantly fine--the blue sky powdered with gold\nand great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins\nPubliques--Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The air\nwas motionless, but when you opened your mouth there was just a faint\nch... |
2,370 | 1429_"her_first_ball" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leila's first ball began in a cab. Running her hand along the upholstery of her seat she imagine it was the sleeve of a young man's dress suit. Sharing the cab with Leila were her cousins, the Sheridans: Meg, Jose, Laura, and their brother Laurie. She watched the siblings interact with one another and wished she had si... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n10. HER FIRST BALL.",
"Exactly when the ball began Leila would have found it hard to say.\nPerhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she\nshared the cab with the Sheridan girls and their brother. She sat back\nin her own little corner of it, and the bolster on which her hand r... |
2,371 | 1429_"the_singing_lesson" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Meadows, in utter despair, made her way to the music hall. She was dressed in her usual academic attire and was on her way to teach her first signing lesson of the day. Girls of all ages passed her in the hall, laughing, running, calling out to one another. Miss Meadows was immune to their happiness. Basil, her fi... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n11. THE SINGING LESSON.",
"With despair--cold, sharp despair--buried deep in her heart like a\nwicked knife, Miss Meadows, in cap and gown and carrying a little baton,\ntrod the cold corridors that led to the music hall. Girls of all ages,\nrosy from the air, and bubbling over with that gleeful excite... |
2,372 | 1429_"the_stranger" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The crowd on the wharf anxiously watches the motionless ship across the water. No one was more anxious than Mr. John Hammond whose wife, Janey, was aboard the ship. Checking his watch, pacing, engaging all those gathered in conversation, Mr. Hammond kept everyone in high spirits, more or less, while scanning the deck o... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n12. THE STRANGER",
"It seemed to the little crowd on the wharf that she was never going\nto move again. There she lay, immense, motionless on the grey crinkled\nwater, a loop of smoke above her, an immense flock of gulls screaming\nand diving after the galley droppings at the stern. You could just see... |
2,373 | 1429_"bank_holiday" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A band begins to play a lively tune as a crowd gathers around them. Eating oranges and bananas the young and the old feast as they walk together toward a hill in the distance. The music surrounds the crowd, joining them in celebration of the bank holiday. A few characters in the crowd stand out, like the young girl who... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n13. BANK HOLIDAY.",
"A stout man with a pink face wears dingy white flannel trousers, a blue\ncoat with a pink handkerchief showing, and a straw hat much too small\nfor him, perched at the back of his head. He plays the guitar. A little\nchap in white canvas shoes, his face hidden under a felt hat lik... |
2,374 | 1429_"an_ideal_family" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Neave felt as if he were too old for spring this year. Walking home from work, as he had done countless times before, he suddenly felt very tired and subdued by his surroundings. He could not understand why. It had been an ordinary day at the office. His son, Harold, who stood to inherit the business, arrived hours... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n14. AN IDEAL FAMILY.",
"That evening for the first time in his life, as he pressed through the swing door and descended the three broad steps to the pavement, old Mr. Neave felt he was too old for the spring. Spring--warm, eager, restless--was there, waiting for him in the golden light, ready in front... |
2,375 | 1429_"the_lady's_maid" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door . Ellen, the household maid, enters the room of her Lady's guest, who she calls "madam. " Ellen asks if madam would like a cup of tea and nonchalantly begins the one-sided conversation that makes up the story of "The Lady's Maid." Unprompted Ellen tells madam that she always makes a ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n15. THE LADY'S MAID.",
"Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door... I hope I haven't disturbed you,\nmadam. You weren't asleep--were you? But I've just given my lady her\ntea, and there was such a nice cup over, I thought, perhaps...",
"... Not at all, madam. I always make a cup of tea last thing. She dr... |
2,376 | 25439_chapters_1-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator, thirty-year-old Julian West, was born in the nineteenth century, a time when a tiny minority of the human race, including him, enjoyed an unequal share of the world's wealth. Although the privileged few sometimes tried to ameliorate the suffering of the impoverished masses, they were first and foremost co... | [
"I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. \"What!\"\nyou say, \"eighteen fifty-seven? That is an odd slip. He means nineteen\nfifty-seven, of course.\" I beg pardon, but there is no mistake. It was\nabout four in the afternoon of December the 26th, one day after\nChristmas, in the year 1857, no... |
2,377 | 25439_chapters_8-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leete explains that there is no longer any need for money to facilitate exchanges because the nation is the only producer and distributor of goods and services. Each year, the nation's wealth is divided evenly. Each citizen is issued a credit card for his share of the nation's wealth to purchase the goods and services ... | [
"When I awoke I felt greatly refreshed, and lay a considerable time in\na dozing state, enjoying the sensation of bodily comfort. The\nexperiences of the day previous, my waking to find myself in the year\n2000, the sight of the new Boston, my host and his family, and the\nwonderful things I had heard, were a blank... |
2,378 | 25439_chapters_15-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leete explains that the government does not regulate the production of art. An author simply has to pay for the first printing of his book. The government then places the book on sale at a price determined by the author. The author's work hours are reduced according to the amount his work earns in royalties. Therefore,... | [
"When, in the course of our tour of inspection, we came to the library,\nwe succumbed to the temptation of the luxurious leather chairs with\nwhich it was furnished, and sat down in one of the book-lined alcoves\nto rest and chat awhile.",
"\"Edith tells me that you have been in the library all the morning,\"\nsa... |
2,379 | 25439_chapters_23-28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian senses that Edith is hiding something from him, but she refuses to tell him what it is. He promises to wait until she is ready to tell him. Julian gives some of the nineteenth-century newspapers in his sleeping chamber to Doctor Leete Leete informs Julian that the anarchists who were making such a fuss in the ni... | [
"That evening, as I sat with Edith in the music room, listening to some\npieces in the programme of that day which had attracted my notice, I\ntook advantage of an interval in the music to say, \"I have a question\nto ask you which I fear is rather indiscreet.\"",
"\"I am quite sure it is not that,\" she replied,... |
2,380 | 25439_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator, Julian West, announces that he was first in Boston in 1857. He realizes that his readers of the year 2000 will be shocked that he is a thirty year-old man asserting that he was alive in 1857. At that time, the civilization of the present day did not exist. Society was divided into four classes or nations,... | [
"I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. \"What!\"\nyou say, \"eighteen fifty-seven? That is an odd slip. He means nineteen\nfifty-seven, of course.\" I beg pardon, but there is no mistake. It was\nabout four in the afternoon of December the 26th, one day after\nChristmas, in the year 1857, no... |
2,381 | 25439_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West spends Decoration Day, which commemorates the soldiers of the Civil War, with Edith Bartlett and her family. At dinner he reads of another strike in the building trades and begins to complain about workers in general. Everyone at the table agrees that things are getting very bad. Edith points out that strik... | [
"The thirtieth day of May, 1887, fell on a Monday. It was one of the\nannual holidays of the nation in the latter third of the nineteenth\ncentury, being set apart under the name of Decoration Day, for doing\nhonor to the memory of the soldiers of the North who took part in the\nwar for the preservation of the unio... |
2,382 | 25439_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West hears people talking above him as he comes to consciousness. A woman is urging a man not to tell him something. The man agrees that he will try to avoid it. That woman and another woman leave the room just as he is opening his eyes. He sees a man in his sixties, who says he is a doctor and claims that Julia... | [
"\"He is going to open his eyes. He had better see but one of us at\nfirst.\"",
"\"Promise me, then, that you will not tell him.\"",
"The first voice was a man's, the second a woman's, and both spoke in\nwhispers.",
"\"I will see how he seems,\" replied the man.",
"\"No, no, promise me,\" persisted the othe... |
2,383 | 25439_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Feeling faint, Julian is led inside and given some wine and food by the doctor. He admits that he now believes that this is not a joke. The two men introduce themselves. The doctors name is Leete. Doctor Leete lets Julian West bathe and change clothes. Julian West finds himself less preoccupied with his former life and... | [
"I did not faint, but the effort to realize my position made me very\ngiddy, and I remember that my companion had to give me a strong arm as\nhe conducted me from the roof to a roomy apartment on the upper floor\nof the house, where he insisted on my drinking a glass or two of good\nwine and partaking of a light re... |
2,384 | 25439_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The women go to bed and Julian West and Doctor Leete stay up to talk. Julian Wests first question is what solution they have found to the labor question. Doctor Leete says that the solution came as a result of industrial evolution. Society had to recognize and cooperate with that evolution. Doctor Leete cannot get over... | [
"When, in the course of the evening the ladies retired, leaving Dr.\nLeete and myself alone, he sounded me as to my disposition for sleep,\nsaying that if I felt like it my bed was ready for me; but if I was\ninclined to wakefulness nothing would please him better than to bear\nme company. \"I am a late bird, mysel... |
2,385 | 25439_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Julian West exclaims over the great increase in the governments functions, Doctor Leete cannot imagine what he means. Julian West explains that in his day the governments only functions were to keep the peace and to defend the people against public enemies. Doctor Leete cannot imagine a worst public enemy than hun... | [
"Dr. Leete ceased speaking, and I remained silent, endeavoring to form\nsome general conception of the changes in the arrangements of society\nimplied in the tremendous revolution which he had described.",
"Finally I said, \"The idea of such an extension of the functions of\ngovernment is, to say the least, rathe... |
2,386 | 25439_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West wonders how the system can function fairly in determining where people can best serve. Doctor Leete assures him that this function is performed by the people themselves, which he names as men only. It is as yet unclear if women are involved in this industrial state. He adds that every man determines for him... | [
"\"It is after you have mustered your industrial army into service,\" I\nsaid, \"that I should expect the chief difficulty to arise, for there\nits analogy with a military army must cease. Soldiers have all the\nsame thing, and a very simple thing, to do, namely, to practice the\nmanual of arms, to march and stand ... |
2,387 | 25439_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West wakes up the next morning feeling perfectly rested and tranquil. He lies in bed dozing and thinking of Decoration Day, which he spent with Edith and her family. He begins to think about their wedding when his pleasant reverie is interrupted with worries about the builder's letter he had read the previous da... | [
"When I awoke I felt greatly refreshed, and lay a considerable time in\na dozing state, enjoying the sensation of bodily comfort. The\nexperiences of the day previous, my waking to find myself in the year\n2000, the sight of the new Boston, my host and his family, and the\nwonderful things I had heard, were a blank... |
2,388 | 25439_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At breakfast, Julian West asks Doctor and Mrs. Leete about the absence of banks and stores. They tell him there is no money, so there is no need for banks, and that the distribution of goods is carried out in a different way. Doctor Leete takes Julian West back up to the roof of the house after breakfast, and they resu... | [
"Dr. and Mrs. Leete were evidently not a little startled to learn, when\nthey presently appeared, that I had been all over the city alone that\nmorning, and it was apparent that they were agreeably surprised to see\nthat I seemed so little agitated after the experience.",
"\"Your stroll could scarcely have failed... |
2,389 | 25439_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On their way to the store, the characters discuss the method of shopping in the nineteenth century. Edith Leete cannot understand how people used to put up with the waste of time resulting from too many shops specializing in the same thing. If a shopper had a great deal of time, she (the shopper here is gendered femini... | [
"\"If I am going to explain our way of shopping to you,\" said my\ncompanion, as we walked along the street, \"you must explain your way\nto me. I have never been able to understand it from all I have read on\nthe subject. For example, when you had such a vast number of shops,\neach with its different assortment, h... |
2,390 | 25439_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they arrive back at the Leete house, Edith Leete shows Julian West the music room. She explains that four orchestras are playing in the city continuously, and their music is piped into the homes of all the citizens who pay for the service. The quality of the music astonishes Julian West. He learns that he can list... | [
"When we arrived home, Dr. Leete had not yet returned, and Mrs. Leete\nwas not visible. \"Are you fond of music, Mr. West?\" Edith asked.",
"I assured her that it was half of life, according to my notion.",
"\"I ought to apologize for inquiring,\" she said. \"It is not a question\nthat we ask one another nowada... |
2,391 | 25439_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian Wests next questions center around the notion of incentives to work. As usual, after the women leave, he and Doctor Leete continue their conversation. The doctor describes the organization of men at work as an army with several grades of rank achieved by merit. The most superior men are the captains of the force... | [
"The questions which I needed to ask before I could acquire even an\noutline acquaintance with the institutions of the twentieth century\nbeing endless, and Dr. Leete's good-nature appearing equally so, we\nsat up talking for several hours after the ladies left us. Reminding\nmy host of the point at which our talk ... |
2,392 | 25439_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, Doctor Leete helps Julian West to adjust the music in his room. The musical instruments are so finely adjusted to each individual that it is possible for one person to listen while another, standing in the same room, hears nothing. He sleeps soundly, having left his insomnia in the nineteenth century, and w... | [
"As Edith had promised he should do, Dr. Leete accompanied me to my\nbedroom when I retired, to instruct me as to the adjustment of the\nmusical telephone. He showed how, by turning a screw, the volume of\nthe music could be made to fill the room, or die away to an echo so\nfaint and far that one could scarcely be ... |
2,393 | 25439_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A heavy rainstorm hits the city, but this does not stop the characters from going out to dinner, because all the sidewalks are covered by a vast waterproof covering. Doctor Leete draws a comparison between Julian Wests time and that of the twentieth century, insofar as the two ages deal with the rain. In the age of ind... | [
"A heavy rainstorm came up during the day, and I had concluded that the\ncondition of the streets would be such that my hosts would have to\ngive up the idea of going out to dinner, although the dining-hall I\nhad understood to be quite near. I was much surprised when at the\ndinner hour the ladies appeared prepare... |
2,394 | 25439_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The characters next visit the library of a social club. It is very comfortable and books are easily accessible. Julian West contrasts this scene to the libraries of the nineteenth century, when books were closely guarded and borrowing was difficult. Mrs. Leete and Edith Leete tell Julian West of the joy he will have in... | [
"When, in the course of our tour of inspection, we came to the library,\nwe succumbed to the temptation of the luxurious leather chairs with\nwhich it was furnished, and sat down in one of the book-lined alcoves\nto rest and chat awhile.",
"\"Edith tells me that you have been in the library all the morning,\"\nsa... |
2,395 | 25439_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, when Julian West leaves his room, Edith Leete comes out of the dining room to check on him. He realizes she has been getting up very early every morning to make sure he does not leave the house because she fears that he will have another crisis. He is very touched by her concern and calls her an angel... | [
"Next morning I rose somewhat before the breakfast hour. As I descended\nthe stairs, Edith stepped into the hall from the room which had been\nthe scene of the morning interview between us described some chapters\nback.",
"\"Ah!\" she exclaimed, with a charmingly arch expression, \"you thought\nto slip out unbekn... |
2,396 | 25439_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Doctor Leete takes Julian West to visit the warehouse and to see how products are distributed. He is amazed at the perfect organization that all this efficiency can give to labor. They walk home, and on the way Julian West raises the question of how all these products are produced efficiently and without waste. Doctor ... | [
"I found the processes at the warehouse quite as interesting as Edith\nhad described them, and became even enthusiastic over the truly\nremarkable illustration which is seen there of the prodigiously\nmultiplied efficiency which perfect organization can give to labor. It\nis like a gigantic mill, into the hopper of... |
2,397 | 25439_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening Doctor Leete and Julian West have another talk. Julian West is surprised at the early age of retirement. He thinks it seems too early to put people out of work when they have plenty of good years ahead of them. Doctor Leete answers that people work only for duty, but they all look forward to the age of for... | [
"That evening I sat up for some time after the ladies had retired,\ntalking with Dr. Leete about the effect of the plan of exempting men\nfrom further service to the nation after the age of forty-five, a\npoint brought up by his account of the part taken by the retired\ncitizens in the government.",
"\"At forty-f... |
2,398 | 25439_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Julian West goes for a walk and realizes that the state prison in Charleston is missing. When he gets back, Doctor Leete explains that there are no prisons and that cases of atavism are treated in the hospitals. Atavism, Julian West learns, refers to behavior that comes from the past and does not belo... | [
"In the course of an early morning constitutional I visited\nCharlestown. Among the changes, too numerous to attempt to indicate,\nwhich mark the lapse of a century in that quarter, I particularly\nnoted the total disappearance of the old state prison.",
"\"That went before my day, but I remember hearing about it... |
2,399 | 25439_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edith Leete asks Julian West if he has thought about visiting the underground vault where he had slept all those years. He tells her he has avoided it for fear of arousing painful feelings, but now he feels strong enough to do so. When they go down to the room, he is amazed at how removed he feels from his former life.... | [
"That afternoon Edith casually inquired if I had yet revisited the\nunderground chamber in the garden in which I had been found.",
"\"Not yet,\" I replied. \"To be frank, I have shrunk thus far from doing\nso, lest the visit might revive old associations rather too strongly\nfor my mental equilibrium.\"",
"\"Ah... |
2,400 | 25439_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Doctor Leete takes Julian West on a tour of the universities. He says that the compulsory education of the nineteenth century has been extended in the twentieth century to the age of twenty-one. All men and women go to the university. When Julian West wonders about the cost of this education, Doctor Leete assures him t... | [
"It had been suggested by Dr. Leete that we should devote the next\nmorning to an inspection of the schools and colleges of the city, with\nsome attempt on his own part at an explanation of the educational\nsystem of the twentieth century.",
"\"You will see,\" said he, as we set out after breakfast, \"many very\n... |
2,401 | 25439_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night after dinner, the women once again leave the men to discuss the new society. This time, the discussion centers around the wealth of the nation. Julian West is curious as to how much wealth is available in this new society. He says that if he had to go back to his time and explain everything to his fellow cit... | [
"We had made an appointment to meet the ladies at the dining-hall for\ndinner, after which, having some engagement, they left us sitting at\ntable there, discussing our wine and cigars with a multitude of other\nmatters.",
"\"Doctor,\" said I, in the course of our talk, \"morally speaking, your\nsocial system is ... |
2,402 | 25439_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening, Julian West is enjoying music with Edith Leete. He asks her about the conversation he heard when he was coming to consciousness on his first day in the new world. He had heard her make her father promise not to tell him something. Her father had hesitated and had complied only after she and her mother bot... | [
"That evening, as I sat with Edith in the music room, listening to some\npieces in the programme of that day which had attracted my notice, I\ntook advantage of an interval in the music to say, \"I have a question\nto ask you which I fear is rather indiscreet.\"",
"\"I am quite sure it is not that,\" she replied,... |
2,403 | 25439_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Julian West tries to find Edith alone, but does not see her inside the house. He goes outside to find her and decides to visit the underground chamber again. He notices some newspapers from his time on a table and brings them up for Doctor Leete. At breakfast, he sees Edith, who blushes, but is otherw... | [
"In the morning I went down stairs early in the hope of seeing Edith\nalone. In this, however, I was disappointed. Not finding her in the\nhouse, I sought her in the garden, but she was not there. In the\ncourse of my wanderings I visited the underground chamber, and sat\ndown there to rest. Upon the reading table ... |
2,404 | 25439_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West has become so impressed with Edith Leete that his curiosity about womens position in the new society is finally aroused. He finds her more like a noble and innocent boy than any girl ever known. He broaches the topic with Doctor Leete by stating that women must have no other occupation nowadays, aside from ... | [
"The personality of Edith Leete had naturally impressed me strongly\never since I had come, in so strange a manner, to be an inmate of her\nfather's house, and it was to be expected that after what had happened\nthe night previous, I should be more than ever preoccupied with\nthoughts of her. From the first I had b... |
2,405 | 25439_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Doctor Leete asks Julian West if he would like to hear a sermon. Julian West wonders if the new society has an established religion. The Leetes inform him that religion is a free choice and not mandated or controlled by the state. They go into the music room and tune into a sermon by Mr. Barton. Mr. Barton opens his se... | [
"I think if a person were ever excusable for losing track of the days\nof the week, the circumstances excused me. Indeed, if I had been told\nthat the method of reckoning time had been wholly changed and the days\nwere now counted in lots of five, ten, or fifteen instead of seven, I\nshould have been in no way surp... |
2,406 | 25439_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the Sunday of Julian Wests first week in the new Boston. He feels very depressed after hearing the sermon because he suddenly realizes how different he is from the people of the twentieth century. He feels utterly alone, and his feeling is made worse at the thought that the Leetes pity him more than they like him... | [
"I never could tell just why, but Sunday afternoon during my old life\nhad been a time when I was peculiarly subject to melancholy, when the\ncolor unaccountably faded out of all the aspects of life, and\neverything appeared pathetically uninteresting. The hours, which in\ngeneral were wont to bear me easily on the... |
2,407 | 25439_chapter_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julian West is woken up by his manservant, Sawyer. To his horror, he finds himself back in the nineteenth century and realizes he has merely dreamed the new society. He sees the date on his newspaper. It is May 31, 1887. The captions of the news of the day tell of famine, labor strikes, violence against women, theft by... | [
"\"It's a little after the time you told me to wake you, sir. You did\nnot come out of it as quick as common, sir.\"",
"The voice was the voice of my man Sawyer. I started bolt upright in\nbed and stared around. I was in my underground chamber. The mellow\nlight of the lamp which always burned in the room when I ... |
2,408 | 7118_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry James includes a short chapter titled "What Maisie Knew. In this chapter, James gives the background of the situation that will play out over the course of the novel. A newly divorced couple, Beale and Ida Farange, are squabbling in court regarding the finances and care of their young daughter, Maisie. It is deci... | [
"The child was provided for, but the new arrangement was inevitably\nconfounding to a young intelligence intensely aware that something had\nhappened which must matter a good deal and looking anxiously out for\nthe effects of so great a cause. It was to be the fate of this patient\nlittle girl to see much more than... |
2,409 | 7118_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Maisie is passed like a "little feathered shuttlecock" from parent to parent, rather than focusing on the past or the future, she simply lives in the present. Her parents tell her terrible things about one another, and she absorbs all of it. Eventually, to get out of passing on her parents' spiteful comments, Maisie... | [
"In that lively sense of the immediate which is the very air of a child's\nmind the past, on each occasion, became for her as indistinct as\nthe future: she surrendered herself to the actual with a good faith\nthat might have been touching to either parent. Crudely as they had\ncalculated they were at first justifi... |
2,410 | 7118_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The author notes that at this point in the arrangement, Ida feels "more delight in hurling Maisie at than in snatching her away". Thus, Ida decides not to send Miss Overmore along with Maisie when she goes back to her father's house purely to bother Beale, since she knows that Maisie likes Miss Overmore and will be ups... | [
"She was therefore all the more startled when her mother said to her in\nconnexion with something to be done before her next migration: \"You\nunderstand of course that she's not going with you.\"",
"Maisie turned quite faint. \"Oh I thought she was.\"",
"\"It doesn't in the least matter, you know, what you thi... |
2,411 | 7118_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie does return to her mother's care, and Miss Overmore obviously cannot come with her. Maisie is given a new governess at her mother's house, an older woman named Mrs. Wix. Maisie does not like Mrs. Wix at first because she is not as pretty as Miss Overmore, but after hearing her voice, Maisie likes her. Maisie fin... | [
"All this led her on, but it brought on her fate as well, the day when\nher mother would be at the door in the carriage in which Maisie now rode\non no occasions but these. There was no question at present of Miss\nOvermore's going back with her: it was universally recognised that her\nquarrel with Mrs. Farange was... |
2,412 | 7118_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Compared to being separated from Miss Overmore, Maisie is even more devastated to be separated from Mrs. Wix when it is time to return to her father's house. To underscore the pain of the separation, the author uses a vivid extended metaphor comparing Maisie's extraction from Mrs. Wix's care to a recent dentist visit i... | [
"The second parting from Miss Overmore had been bad enough, but this\nfirst parting from Mrs. Wix was much worse. The child had lately been to\nthe dentist's and had a term of comparison for the screwed-up intensity\nof the scene. It was dreadfully silent, as it had been when her tooth\nwas taken out; Mrs. Wix had ... |
2,413 | 7118_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie's stay at her father's house is different this time. She is left with him for longer than the usual 6-month interval; supposedly her mother has gone abroad and is trying to annoy her father by leaving Maisie at his house as long as possible. Miss Overmore's relationship with Beale Farange has also clearly change... | [
"She became aware in time that this phase wouldn't have shone by\nlessons, the care of her education being now only one of the many\nduties devolving on Miss Overmore; a devolution as to which she was\npresent at various passages between that lady and her father--passages\nsignificant, on either side, of dissent an... |
2,414 | 7118_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day while Maisie is still living at her father's house, Mrs. Wix visits out of the blue. Maisie believes Mrs. Wix came on this day because both her father and Miss Overmore are away, supposedly investigating a school for Maisie to attend, but Miss Overmore returns a day early and so catches Mrs. Wix. Mrs. Wix annou... | [
"It quite fell in with this intensity that one day, on returning from\na walk with the housemaid, Maisie should have found her in the hall,\nseated on the stool usually occupied by the telegraph-boys who haunted\nBeale Farange's door and kicked their heels while, in his room, answers\nto their missives took form wi... |
2,415 | 7118_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Mrs. Wix leaves, Miss Overmore realizes that she would be hypocritical to criticize Ida further for her marriage, so she silently gazes at Sir Claude's photo. Maisie is surprised when Miss Overmore pronounces Sir Claude "horrid" and is further confused when Miss Overmore suggests they put the photo on display in ... | [
"After Mrs. Wix's retreat Miss Overmore appeared to recognise that she\nwas not exactly in a position to denounce Ida Farange's second union;\nbut she drew from a table-drawer the photograph of Sir Claude and,\nstanding there before Maisie, studied it at some length.",
"\"Isn't he beautiful?\" the child ingenuous... |
2,416 | 7118_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie is now back her mother's house being cared for and taught by Mrs. Wix. After such a long time not having any lessons, Maisie spends long, fulfilling days studying with Mrs. Wix. Maisie's mother won't see Maisie for three days once she has arrived at the house, but Sir Claude visits the schoolroom often. Sir Clau... | [
"The idea of what she was to make up and the prodigious total it came\nto were kept well before Maisie at her mother's. These things were the\nconstant occupation of Mrs. Wix, who arrived there by the back stairs,\nbut in tears of joy, the day after her own arrival. The process of\nmaking up, as to which the good l... |
2,417 | 7118_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter consists entirely of a confusing conversation between Sir Claude and Maisie. They start by discussing Mrs. Beale; Maisie says that she knows Mrs. Beale won't give her up, even though Ida and Mrs. Wix won't let them be in contact. Sir Claude promises that he hasn't seen Mrs. Beale since the day he picked up... | [
"He was smoking a cigarette and he stood before the fire and looked\nat the meagre appointments of the room in a way that made her rather\nashamed of them. Then before (on the subject of Mrs. Beale) he let her\n\"draw\" him--that was another of his words; it was astonishing how many\nshe gathered in--he remarked th... |
2,418 | 7118_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ida and Sir Claude's relationship seems to have completely deteriorated by this chapter. Whereas Ida used to go out often with Sir Claude and laugh naturally at his charming humor, she is now constantly rushing out alone in low-cut dresses. Ida coldly tells Maisie that she has "washed her hands" of her and given her ca... | [
"It must not be supposed that her ladyship's intermissions were not\nqualified by demonstrations of another order--triumphal entries and\nbreathless pauses during which she seemed to take of everything in the\nroom, from the state of the ceiling to that of her daughter's boot-toes,\na survey that was rich in intent... |
2,419 | 7118_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thinking of how Ida has said Maisie's father would rather be dead than have responsibility of her, Maisie thinks to herself that she has "two fathers, two mothers and two homes, six protections in all" and yet she doesn't "know 'wherever' to go". Ida and Sir Claude's relationship continues to worsen, and Ida has seemin... | [
"She had not at the moment explained her ominous speech, but the light of\nremarkable events soon enabled her companion to read it. It may indeed\nbe said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct\nperceptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself. This was helped by an emoti... |
2,420 | 7118_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Claude continues to take Maisie on outings--those specifically mentioned at the beginning of this chapter are the National Gallery and a cafe on Baker Street. As they visit sites together, Sir Claude and Maisie have candid, mature conversations about the nature of Sir Claude's relationships with Ida and Mrs. Beale.... | [
"This might moreover have been taken to be the sense of a remark made by her stepfather as--one rainy day when the streets were all splash and two umbrellas unsociable and the wanderers had sought shelter in the National Gallery--Maisie sat beside him staring rather sightlessly at a roomful of pictures which he had... |
2,421 | 7118_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Beale greets Maisie with hugs and praise, and Maisie interestingly notes that her stepmother is acting "in the very manner of her mother". Maisie notes anew how beautiful Mrs. Beale is, especially now that she is a bit older. Early in the conversation, Mrs. Beale reveals that Sir Claude has indeed been visiting he... | [
"Mrs Beale fairly swooped upon her and the effect of the whole hour was\nto show the child how much, how quite formidably indeed, after all, she\nwas loved. This was the more the case as her stepmother, so changed--in\nthe very manner of her mother--that she really struck her as a new\nacquaintance, somehow recalle... |
2,422 | 7118_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, Sir Claude comes to Maisie's father's house specifically to take her out with him. It is revealed that Maisie has been living at her father's for several weeks, and Sir Claude has not been visiting much at all. Maisie has also not been attending lessons, because her father doesn't have the money. Sir Claude ta... | [
"It was Susan Ash who came to her with the news: \"He's downstairs, miss,\nand he do look beautiful.\"",
"In the schoolroom at her father's, which had pretty blue curtains, she\nhad been making out at the piano a lovely little thing, as Mrs. Beale\ncalled it, a \"Moonlight Berceuse\" sent her through the post by ... |
2,423 | 7118_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Instead of being scared or shy, Maisie takes to the Captain immediately. They share their shock over Sir Claude having called Ida "a damned old brute" , and the Captain tells Maisie that he thinks Ida is "an angel". The Captain tells Maisie that her mother talks about her a lot, and Maisie is so flustered by his charmi... | [
"As she met the Captain's light blue eyes the greatest marvel occurred;\nshe felt a sudden relief at finding them reply with anxiety to the\nhorror in her face. \"What in the world has he done?\" He put it all on\nSir Claude.",
"\"He has called her a damned old brute.\" She couldn't help bringing that\nout.",
"... |
2,424 | 7118_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Claude again doesn't visit Maisie's father's house for a while, but Mrs. Beale admits to Maisie when asked that she does continue to see Sir Claude alone. Maisie still does not seem to understand the nature of their relationship as an extramarital affair, but she is pleased that Mrs. Beale is able to bring her note... | [
"If for reasons of her own she could bear the sense of Sir Claude's\ndispleasure her young endurance might have been put to a serious test. The days went by without his knocking at her father's door, and the\ntime would have turned sadly to waste if something hadn't conspicuously\nhappened to give it a new differen... |
2,425 | 7118_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Exhibition at Earl's Court is not as great as Mrs. Beale and Maisie had hoped. Because of their lack of money, they have to have only a small meal beforehand, and they can't actually see a lot of the sideshows because they cost money. They look around but see Sir Claude nowhere, causing them even more frustration. ... | [
"The child, however, was not destined to enjoy much of Sir Claude at the\n\"thingumbob,\" which took for them a very different turn indeed. On the\nspot Mrs. Beale, with hilarity, had urged her to the course proposed;\nbut later, at the Exhibition, she withdrew this allowance, mentioning as\na result of second thou... |
2,426 | 7118_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Maisie and her father wait for the Countess to arrive, he tells her that he and the Countess are planning on going to America. He invites Maisie to go with him, which surprises her greatly, and she replies, "Dear papa, I'll go with you anywhere". He does not seem to accept this answer, and moves on to talking about ... | [
"When he had lighted a cigarette and begun to smoke in her face it was as\nif he had struck with the match the note of some queer clumsy ferment\nof old professions, old scandals, old duties, a dim perception of what\nhe possessed in her and what, if everything had only--damn it!--been\ntotally different, she might... |
2,427 | 7118_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Maisie gets to her mother's house, it is clear that the Countess gave her too much money for the cab fare. Susan Ash takes one coin, and Maisie goes to sleep with the rest of the money tied in a handkerchief under her pillow. The next day, Mrs. Beale takes the money from Maisie, calling the coins "wages of sin" an... | [
"The money was far too much even for a fee in a fairy-tale, and in the\nabsence of Mrs. Beale, who, though the hour was now late, had not yet\nreturned to the Regent's Park, Susan Ash, in the hall, as loud as Maisie\nwas low and as bold as she was bland, produced, on the exhibition\noffered under the dim vigil of t... |
2,428 | 7118_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie and Ida converse alone in the garden of the hotel in Folkestone. Ida starts off in a fairly sweet manner, telling Maisie that she can't understand all that has happened between her and Sir Claude and that she needs to go to South Africa because she is sick. She repeats as usual that Maisie's father wishes Maisie... | [
"A good deal of the rest of Ida's visit was devoted to explaining, as it\nwere, so extraordinary a statement. This explanation was more copious\nthan any she had yet indulged in, and as the summer twilight gathered\nand she kept her child in the garden she was conciliatory to a degree\nthat let her need to arrange ... |
2,429 | 7118_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Maisie, Sir Claude, and Susan Ash travel to France. They arrive in a city called Boulogne, which is on the northern coast of France. They enjoy sightseeing, eating and exploring. Sir Claude explains to Maisie that they need to live there, rather than Paris or another fancier city in France, to save money.... | [
"The next day it seemed to her indeed at the bottom--down too far, in\nshuddering plunges, even to leave her a sense, on the Channel boat, of\nthe height at which Sir Claude remained and which had never in every way\nbeen so great as when, much in the wet, though in the angle of a screen\nof canvas, he sociably sat... |
2,430 | 7118_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Wix explains the situation further: Ida came to visit Mrs. Wix at her own lowly house and gave her a ten-pound note to go to France. Sir Claude hints to Maisie that this could have been the money Ida took out and then put away while talking with Maisie in the garden. Mrs. Wix says that she was sent so that Susan A... | [
"Sir Claude was stationed at the window; he didn't so much as turn round,\nand it was left to the youngest of the three to take up the remark. \"Do\nyou mean you went to see her yesterday?\"",
"\"She came to see ME. She knocked at my shabby door. She mounted my\nsqualid stair. She told me she had seen you at Folk... |
2,431 | 7118_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It continues to rain, keeping everyone cooped up in the hotel. Sir Claude meets with acquaintances, as he has multiple times over their days in France. Mrs. Wix is cold to Sir Claude, not wanting him to go back to England to see Mrs. Beale. Sir Claude shows Maisie and Mrs. Wix a letter he just received; the letter is s... | [
"It continued to rain so hard that our young lady's private dream of\nexplaining the Continent to their visitor had to contain a provision for\nsome adequate treatment of the weather. At the _table d'hote_ that evening\nshe threw out a variety of lights: this was the second ceremony of the\nsort she had sat through... |
2,432 | 7118_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Sir Claude and Susan Ash leave, the weather gets better, so Mrs. Wix and Maisie spend Sir Claude's money enjoying France. They go for long walks, eat delicious meals, and have conversations as usual. Finally, after not bringing it up for a while, Maisie asks Mrs. Wix why they can't live with Mrs. Beale and Sir Cl... | [
"Every single thing he had prophesied came so true that it was after all\nno more than fair to expect quite as much for what he had as good as\npromised. His pledges they could verify to the letter, down to his very\nguarantee that a way would be found with Miss Ash. Roused in the summer\ndawn and vehemently squeez... |
2,433 | 7118_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie and Mrs. Wix's fight continues the next day. They go out together to continue exploring France, and Mrs. Wix constantly criticizes Maisie's moral sense. Sometimes she does this explicitly, but she mostly does it through vague questions like when she asks out of the blue, "Have you absolutely none at all. Maisie ... | [
"Nothing so dreadful of course could be final or even for many minutes\nprolonged: they rushed together again too soon for either to feel that\neither had kept it up, and though they went home in silence it was with\na vivid perception for Maisie that her companion's hand had closed upon\nher. That hand had shown a... |
2,434 | 7118_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie asks whether Mrs. Beale has come without Sir Claude, and Mrs. Beale says that she has come ahead of him because she was so eager to see Maisie. When Maisie asks whether Sir Claude is going to come soon, Mrs. Beale replies that they "must make him" and to "give him time". Mrs. Beale, contrary to her usual attitud... | [
"The greatest wonder of all was the way Mrs. Beale addressed her announcement, so far as could be judged, equally to Mrs. Wix, who, as if from sudden failure of strength, sank into a chair while Maisie surrendered to the visitor's embrace. As soon as the child was liberated she met with profundity Mrs. Wix's stupef... |
2,435 | 7118_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At lunch, Mrs. Beale's beauty attracts attention from others at the hotel. Mrs. Beale continues to be overly sweet to Mrs. Wix. During lunch, she suggests that she is the most suited of Maisie's four potential guardians to raise the girl. The narrator implies that Maisie could do without a father figure, since she isn'... | [
"Mrs. Beale, at table between the pair, plainly attracted the attention\nMrs. Wix had foretold. No other lady present was nearly so handsome,\nnor did the beauty of any other accommodate itself with such art to the\nhomage it produced. She talked mainly to her other neighbour, and that\nleft Maisie leisure both to ... |
2,436 | 7118_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Maisie wakes up the next morning, she realizes that she has been allowed to sleep in much later than usual. Mrs. Wix is sitting in the room, dressed and wide awake. She reports anxiously that Sir Claude has returned and is in his room with Mrs. Beale. Maisie thinks that Sir Claude may have let Mrs. Beale come to s... | [
"Her sleep was drawn out, she instantly recognised lateness in the way\nher eyes opened to Mrs. Wix, erect, completely dressed, more dressed\nthan ever, and gazing at her from the centre of the room. The next thing\nshe was sitting straight up, wide awake with the fear of the hours of\n\"abroad\" that she might hav... |
2,437 | 7118_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie and Sir Claude sit together in a cafe, drinking coffee and eating rolls. Sir Claude tells Maisie about being in London, and Maisie notices that Sir Claude seems more nervous than she's ever seen him. They discuss whether they will all--Sir Claude, Mrs. Beale, Mrs. Wix, and Maisie--be eating together later in the... | [
"After they were seated there it was different: the place was not below\nthe hotel, but further along the quay; with wide, clear windows and a\nfloor sprinkled with bran in a manner that gave it for Maisie something\nof the added charm of a circus. They had pretty much to themselves the\npainted spaces and the red ... |
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