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2,438 | 7118_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since neither Maisie nor Sir Claude want to go back and face Mrs. Wix and Mrs. Beale, they go on a long walk around Boulogne. They come upon a train going to Paris and Maisie suddenly asks to go. She tells Sir Claude to get tickets, and they try to do so in a hurry, knowing the train is leaving in just two minutes. The... | [
"She remained out with him for a time of which she could take no measure\nsave that it was too short for what she wished to make of it--an\ninterval, a barrier indefinite, insurmountable. They walked about, they\ndawdled, they looked in shop-windows; they did all the old things\nexactly as if to try to get back all... |
2,408 | 7118_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet Maisie, age six, and find out what her world is like while she's spending her "first term with her father" . After the impersonal preface, James's narrator shows us what it feels like to be Maisie, and the novel will remain close to her point of view throughout . In short, Maisie has got a tough life ahead of h... | [
"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_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie pretends to be stupid to keep from having to hurl insults and then learns to keep secrets to protect herself. Still, Maisie feels guilty--like she is the one who has made "everything" in her world "bad" . Aww, poor kiddo. We meet Maisie's "first governess," Miss Overmore, who is pretty and refined . Maisie and M... | [
"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_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie learns that Miss Overmore will not be coming with her when she returns to her father's place. Maisie and Miss Overmore separate, sadly. Miss Overmore defies Ida Farange's orders and comes to stay with Maisie at her father's house. We learn that Maisie has "conceived her first passion, and the object of it was he... | [
"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_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie heads back to her mother's. Enter Mrs. Wix, the governess who's now to be responsible for Maisie when she is with her mother. Mrs. Wix is off-putting to Maisie at first but soon wins her over. We learn that Mrs. Wix had a young daughter, Clara Matilda, who died, and Maisie can tell by Mrs. Wix's voice that she "... | [
"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_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie has to go back to her father and Miss Overmore . This means that she has to say goodbye to Mrs. Wix for the first time, and this is super, super sad! Maisie asks her father if he liked Miss Overmore "just the same" while she was at her mother's . This embarrasses Miss Overmore, even though Beale Farange makes no... | [
"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_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Overmore starts neglecting Maisie's lessons because she is now busy looking after Mr. Farange and his many guests. Miss Overmore and Mr. Farange toy with the idea of sending Maisie to a school or getting her a second governess, but nothing comes of either idea. Maisie starts spending a lot of time by herself. Mais... | [
"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_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Wix appears at Beale Farange's. Miss Overmore can't even. She really hates Mrs. Wix and all that she stands for, including Mrs. Farange. But Mrs. Wix holds her own, fights back with some surprisingly sharp words, and manages to give Maisie the message she has come to give: that her mother will marry a man named Si... | [
"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_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Overmore starts to go by Mrs. Beale . Maisie realizes that she now has four parents in total. Maisie's studies are neglected; "untutored and unclaimed," she spends most of her time at home, listening to grown-ups live it up downstairs . A maid named Susan Ash starts taking Maisie out for walks. Returning from one ... | [
"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_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie finds that she has a lot of schoolwork to make up, and Mrs. Wix, who's thrilled to have her back, sets to work to help her. Maisie's mother, Mrs. Farange , refuses to see Maisie for three days after her return. Mrs. Wix tries to make Maisie feel better by saying it's because her mother is in love, and, ever the ... | [
"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_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie and Sir Claude have a heart-to-heart. Sir Claude drops lots of vague hints. Maisie reminds him that she has brought him and Mrs. Beale together, and he hints at his marital difficulties. Sir Claude also tells Maisie that she won't be apart from him when she goes back to live with her father and Mrs. Beale, even ... | [
"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_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie's mother says, in her characteristically cruel way, that she has washed her hands of Maisie and tells Maisie that Sir Claude is now responsible for her. Maisie senses that "something beyond her knowledge had taken place in the house." Then, she realizes "that her mother was no longer in love" . There is a new ma... | [
"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_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie worries that she'll soon face "the hour when ... with two fathers, two mothers, and two homes, six protections in all, she shouldn't know 'wherever' to go" . Mrs. Wix is also frightened about her own future and Maisie's. This is because there is apparently yet another man in Ida's life. This one's name is Lord E... | [
"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_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Claude explains to Maisie that he doesn't love her mother, adding that Mrs. Beale doesn't love her father, either. This prompts Maisie to ask whether he's been seeing Mrs. Beale after all. Sir Claude says no, but he's written to her. But, here again, James is hinting at greater intimacy between Maisie's two steppar... | [
"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_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Beale lets it slip that she and Sir Claude have been seeing each other, and Maisie reveals that she has already heard this from Mrs. Wix. Sir Claude says that Mrs. Wix has been hoping that Mrs. Beale will "spare" him--meaning go without him for Maisie's sake . Mrs. Beale says no way. Maisie reveals a remarkable--a... | [
"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_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Claude visits Maisie and takes her out for a stroll in Kensington Gardens, in London's Hyde Park. We learn that he has broken his promise and hasn't been to visit Maisie much. Even though Maisie's mother is supposed to be away playing pool in Brussels, she appears in the park with a man. The man she's with isn't on... | [
"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_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Captain surprises Maisie by telling her that he has heard a lot about her and that her mother is "an angel" . According to the Captain, Ida Farange is just misunderstood but really wild about her daughter. Even though Maisie long ago realized that her mother isn't wild about her--and really doesn't care about her a... | [
"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_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Beale again tells Maisie that she sees Sir Claude even when he doesn't come to see Maisie. Mrs. Beale starts bringing Maisie messages from Sir Claude. Maisie feels that she is entering "a new phase"; she has temporarily forgotten about Mrs. Wix . Mrs. Beale finally starts to take Maisie's education seriously, if o... | [
"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_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Beale takes Maisie to the fair, called the "Exhibition," but they have no fun there since all of the attractions cost money. At the fair, Mrs. Beale is shocked when she and Maisie run into Beale Farange, Maisie's father. He is supposed to be abroad but turns out to be in town--in fact, never to have left. Just as ... | [
"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_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beale Farange, Maisie's father, says he'll soon be going to America with the Countess and, much to Maisie's surprise, invites her along. She initially accepts the invitation, and her father says it's hers to take or leave. While Maisie waits with Beale for the Countess to appear, she and her father discuss her mother a... | [
"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_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The cab fare that the Countess gave Maisie turns out to be way too generous. Back at Mrs. Beale's, a debate about what to do with the extra money ensues. Susan Ash, the maid who sometimes looks after Maisie, pockets some. Mrs. Beale insists on giving all of the extra money back. Sir Claude takes Maisie and Susan Ash to... | [
"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_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ida and Maisie have a heart-to-heart. Ida is nicer than usual to Maisie, but still, her serious selfishness and unbelievable obnoxiousness shine through. Ida tells Maisie that she's through with Sir Claude and has to go away, doctor's orders. She's planning to leave for South Africa. Ida claims to have gone through lot... | [
"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_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie, Sir Claude, and Susan Ash cross the Channel together and arrive in Boulogne, France. Maisie asks Sir Claude whether they will be traveling on to Paris, but Sir Claude says not yet, explaining that Paris is too expensive. Maisie is disappointed at first, but then she realizes that she loves Boulogne because of a... | [
"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_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Wix says that she has seen Maisie's mother, who has given her the money that she declined to give to Maisie. Mrs. Wix also says that Ida wants them to send Susan Ash back to England. Sir Claude volunteers to accompany Susan Ash on her return trip. This startles Mrs. Wix, who thinks it's a bad idea, but Sir Claude ... | [
"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_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A letter from Mrs. Beale arrives, enclosing another from Beale Farange to her. Beale's letter announces that he's leaving his wife. Sir Claude says this means that Mrs. Beale is set free. This gives him more reason to go back to England with Susan Ash, against Mrs. Wix's wishes. Mrs. Wix protests vehemently but to no a... | [
"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_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie and Mrs. Wix have a heart-to-heart about all four of Maisie's would-be parents. Maisie asks why they can't all four live together--Maisie, Mrs. Wix, Sir Claude, and Mrs. Beale. Mrs. Wix replies that this would be "a crime" . She means adultery but doesn't make this explicit to Maisie, who doesn't quite get it. A... | [
"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_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie shows Mrs. Wix around Boulogne, and they continue their conversation. Mrs. Wix asks Maisie if she has "any moral sense" . This question will remain important until the end of the novel. Attempting to impart moral sense, Mrs. Wix repeats that Sir Claude is committing a crime by being with Mrs. Beale. Speak of the... | [
"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_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It turns out that Mrs. Beale has come on her own, without Sir Claude. Mrs. Wix tells Maisie that coming to Boulogne is Mrs. Beale's way of winning Sir Claude. Mrs. Wix also repeats her point about the importance of moral sense. | [
"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_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Beale tells Maisie that Sir Claude has made a deal with Ida, his soon-to-be ex-wife: Ida will stop expecting Sir Claude's financial support if Sir Claude takes on the responsibility of supporting Maisie. It's not yet clear, though, whether this will work out. Mrs. Wix concludes that Mrs. Beale is using Maisie as a... | [
"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_xxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie wakes up to find that Sir Claude has returned. While Maisie gets dressed, she and Mrs. Wix take stock of their situation once again. Maisie sees Sir Claude and tells Mrs. Wix that he didn't want Mrs. Beale to come. Maisie agrees to go to a cafe with Sir Claude alone. | [
"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_xxx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maisie's cafe trip with Sir Claude turns into an epic walk around Boulogne. Sir Claude asks Maisie to "sacrifice" Mrs. Wix and live instead with him and Mrs. Beale . Surprised and afraid, Maisie thinks it over. Maisie asks to see Mrs. Wix before she makes a final decision. Sir Claude reminds Maisie that he and Mrs. Bea... | [
"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 ... |
2,438 | 7118_chapter_xxxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Still deciding what to do, Maisie tells Sir Claude that she'll give up Mrs. Wix if he gives up Mrs. Beale. Then, Maisie proposes that she and Sir Claude wait until both Mrs. Wix and Mrs. Beale have gone away without them. Maisie and Sir Claude return to their hotel to find that Mrs. Wix and Mrs. Beale have had a fight.... | [
"She remained out with him for a time of which she could take no measure\nsave that it was too short for what she wished to make of it--an\ninterval, a barrier indefinite, insurmountable. They walked about, they\ndawdled, they looked in shop-windows; they did all the old things\nexactly as if to try to get back all... |
2,439 | 2667_chapters_1-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The vicar, Dr. Primrose, narrates the novel. In chapter 1, he tells his backstory. Not long after taking his vow, the vicar decided to marry. He chose a good-natured Englishwoman - Deborah - and they loved each other dearly. They live in an elegant home in a pleasant neighborhood, even though he sometimes laments the r... | [
"I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up\na large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only\ntalked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year\nbefore I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she\ndid her wedding gown, n... |
2,440 | 2667_chapters_9-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Squire Thornhill brings two fashionable ladies - Lady Blarney and Miss Carolina Wilelmina Amelia Skeggs, though their names are not provided until later - to visit the vicar's family. The party convenes outside to practice some country dances. When they realize they lack sufficient female partners, the family invites t... | [
"Mr Burchell had scarce taken leave, and Sophia consented to dance with\nthe chaplain, when my little ones came running out to tell us that the\n'Squire was come, with a crowd of company. Upon our return, we found our\nlandlord, with a couple of under gentlemen and two young ladies richly\ndrest, whom he introduced... |
2,441 | 2667_chapters_17-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Farmer Williams visits the family one day when the squire is there. The farmer's clear passion for Olivia seems to bother Squire Thornhill, and Olivia suggests to her father that the squire must have a reason for delaying in his proposal. The vicar and Deborah then decide to set a date by which Squire Thornhill must ac... | [
"As I only studied my child's real happiness, the assiduity of Mr\nWilliams pleased me, as he was in easy circumstances, prudent, and\nsincere. It required but very little encouragement to revive his former\npassion; so that in an evening or two he and Mr Thornhill met at our\nhouse, and surveyed each other for som... |
2,442 | 2667_chapters_25-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The family walks with the vicar and the officer towards prison, followed by fifty of the county's poorest parishioners, who are sad and angry to see their curate taken. When the parishioners grows angry enough to assault the officer, the vicar rebukes them, and they fall back. The travel is slow, largely owing to the v... | [
"We set forward from this peaceful neighbourhood, and walked on slowly.\nMy eldest daughter being enfeebled by a slow fever, which had begun for\nsome days to undermine her constitution, one of the officers, who had\nan horse, kindly took her behind him; for even these men cannot entirely\ndivest themselves of huma... |
2,443 | 11224_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first Chapter of Mill's treatise covers a general outline of his argument. He briefly discusses his reasons for writing the treatise, his goals for the work, and the moves he will make in arguing for his specific brand of utilitarianism. Mill begins with a discussion of theories and first principles, drawing an ana... | [
"There are few circumstances among those which make up the present\ncondition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected,\nor more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the\nmost important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which\nhas been made in the decision of... |
2,444 | 11224_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the first part of Chapter II, Mill responds to the major arguments against utilitarianism. In so doing, he carves out the nuances of his own brand of utilitarianism, such that this chapter may be read both as him defending the existing notion of utilitarianism and breaking with its earlier adherents . Mill first dev... | [
"A passing remark is all that needs be given to the ignorant blunder of\nsupposing that those who stand up for utility as the test of right and\nwrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in\nwhich utility is opposed to pleasure.",
"An apology is due to the philosophical opponents of utili... |
2,445 | 11224_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter III, Mill addresses the question of the sanction of moral obligation with respect to utility. The matter at hand is that moral values seem by definition to impute within us a charge to carry them out; it is this prescriptivity for which Mill feels moral theories, including his own, must account. The structur... | [
"The question is often asked, and properly so, in regard to any supposed\nmoral standard--What is its sanction? what are the motives to obey it? or more specifically, what is the source of its obligation? whence does\nit derive its binding force? It is a necessary part of moral philosophy\nto provide the answer to ... |
2,446 | 11224_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter IV, Mill treats in greater detail the proof to which he believes utility is susceptible. This proof consists of a combination of moral intuition and analysis of our basic moral conceptions. In particular, he treats the moral concept of virtue through a utilitarian lens in order to justify the utilitarian fou... | [
"It has already been remarked, that questions of ultimate ends do not\nadmit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term. To be incapable\nof proof by reasoning is common to all first principles; to the first\npremises of our knowledge, as well as to those of our conduct. But the\nformer, being matters of fac... |
2,447 | 11224_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the final chapter of his treatise, Mill addresses the relationship between utilitarianism and justice. It is helpful in understanding this chapter to have a working framework of why Mill feels this issue needs to be addressed in the first place. Mill states it is important to discuss the relationship between utility... | [
"In all ages of speculation, one of the strongest obstacles to the\nreception of the doctrine that Utility or Happiness is the criterion of\nright and wrong, has been drawn from the idea of Justice, The powerful\nsentiment, and apparently clear perception, which that word recalls with\na rapidity and certainty rese... |
2,448 | 2948_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lilia Herriton, a widow of several years, has been living with her in-laws, the Herritons, since her husband Charles' death. At Charing Cross station, everyone is gathered to wish Lilia a bon voyage to Italy. Snobbish Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, precocious little Irma , disapproving Mrs. Herriton, and mee... | [
"They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma,\nMrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft,\nhad braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye.\nMiss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight\nof so many people talking ... |
2,449 | 2948_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Philip arrives in the small town of Monteriano, where Lilia and Caroline have been staying for the past month. He is tired and worried about how to clean up the mess Lilia has gotten herself into. Miss Abbott meets Philip at the station, and the two of them take a carriage back to the hotel. Philip gets straight to the... | [
"When the bewildered tourist alights at the station of Monteriano, he\nfinds himself in the middle of the country. There are a few houses round\nthe railway, and many more dotted over the plain and the slopes of the\nhills, but of a town, mediaeval or otherwise, not the slightest sign. He\nmust take what is suitabl... |
2,450 | 2948_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Newlyweds Lilia and Gino are settling into the new home they just bought in Monteriano--a pretty stone house surrounded by olive trees and vineyards. We totally wouldn't mind being invited as houseguests. Initially, Lilia seems to be the one wearing the pants in the household. She doesn't want Gino's family to move in ... | [
"Opposite the Volterra gate of Monteriano, outside the city, is a very\nrespectable white-washed mud wall, with a coping of red crinkled tiles\nto keep it from dissolution. It would suggest a gentleman's garden if\nthere was not in its middle a large hole, which grows larger with every\nrain-storm. Through the hole... |
2,451 | 2948_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It takes some time for Lilia to realize that she isn't in love her husband and could never be happy with him, and that he had only married her for her money. Oh, ouch. But back then, you couldn't fly to Reno for a quickie divorce. Now that the honeymoon period is over, Lilia and Gino find themselves bickering all the t... | [
"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say\n\"yesterday I was happy, today I am not.\" At no one moment did Lilia\nrealize that her marriage was a failure; yet during the summer and\nautumn she became as unhappy as it was possible for her nature to be.\nShe had no unkind treatment, and fe... |
2,452 | 2948_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Herritons receive news of Lilia's death on Philip's twenty-fourth birthday. They decide, rather matter-of-factly, that it would be proper for them to go into mourning and that they will tell Irma of her mother's death but refrain from mentioning her marriage. Philip is concerned about what should be done regarding ... | [
"At the time of Lilia's death Philip Herriton was just twenty-four years\nof age--indeed the news reached Sawston on his birthday. He was a tall,\nweakly-built young man, whose clothes had to be judiciously padded\non the shoulders in order to make him pass muster. His face was plain\nrather than not, and there was... |
2,453 | 2948_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Philip and Harriet make the long trip by train from London to Monteriano. On their voyage, Harriet gets "smut in her eye" after she insists on keeping the train window open . When they arrive in Florence, Harriet is in an even more sour mood than usual. Unlike Philip, who enjoys traveling and loves Italy , Harriet is e... | [
"Italy, Philip had always maintained, is only her true self in the height\nof the summer, when the tourists have left her, and her soul awakes\nunder the beams of a vertical sun. He now had every opportunity of\nseeing her at her best, for it was nearly the middle of August before he\nwent out to meet Harriet in th... |
2,454 | 2948_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early the next morning, Miss Abbott goes to see Gino alone, afraid that Philip might fail in his mission to secure the baby. Miss Abbott convinces herself that only she knows how to handle Gino, who is strong-willed and won't part easily with his son. Leaving a note for Philip explaining her intentions, Miss Abbott rea... | [
"At about nine o'clock next morning Perfetta went out on to the loggia,\nnot to look at the view, but to throw some dirty water at it. \"Scusi\ntanto!\" she wailed, for the water spattered a tall young lady who had\nfor some time been tapping at the lower door.",
"\"Is Signor Carella in?\" the young lady asked. I... |
2,455 | 2948_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Philip returns to the hotel, Harriet is all worked up because Miss Abbott had burst into her room in tears to say that she had changed her mind and wouldn't let them take the baby. Philip admits to Harriet that Gino had indeed refused to give up the child, but that they're meeting a second time later in the aftern... | [
"\"Mad!\" screamed Harriet,--\"absolutely stark, staring, raving mad!\"",
"Philip judged it better not to contradict her.",
"\"What's she here for? Answer me that. What's she doing in Monteriano in\nAugust? Why isn't she in Normandy? Answer that. She won't. I can: she's\ncome to thwart us; she's betrayed us--go... |
2,456 | 2948_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the crash, Harriet becomes mentally unstable, but the details of her crime are never revealed. Philip goes alone to tell Gino of his child's death. Gino is beside himself with anger and turns to violence, attacking Philip by twisting the arm he broke in the crash until he passes out from the pain. Gino is close t... | [
"The details of Harriet's crime were never known. In her illness\nshe spoke more of the inlaid box that she lent to Lilia--lent, not\ngiven--than of recent troubles. It was clear that she had gone prepared\nfor an interview with Gino, and finding him out, she had yielded to a\ngrotesque temptation. But how far this... |
2,457 | 2948_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By the time the English group had recuperated enough to leave Italy, the two men are good friends again. On the way back to England, Philip received another disappointment. Because of the romantic atmosphere and their close association, he has fallen in love with Miss Abbott. He almost proposes to her when they are tal... | [
"\"He will have to marry her,\" said Philip. \"I heard from him this\nmorning, just as we left Milan. He finds he has gone too far to back\nout. It would be expensive. I don't know how much he minds--not as much\nas we suppose, I think. At all events there's not a word of blame in the\nletter. I don't believe he ev... |
2,458 | 219_part_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A ship called the Nellie is cruising down the Thames--it will rest there as it awaits a change in tide. The narrator is an unidentified guest aboard the ship. He describes at length the appearance of the Thames as an interminable waterway, and then he describes the inhabitants of the ship. The Director of Companies dou... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_part_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While lying on the deck of his steamboat one evening, Marlow overhears a conversation between the Manager and his uncle, leader of the Expedition group that has arrived. Snatches of talk indicate that the two are conferring about Kurtz. The Manager says he was "forced to send him there." They say his influence is frigh... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_part_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marlow is astonished at the Russian's words. He is gathering a clearer picture of Kurtz. The Russian says that he has gone so far that he does not know if he will ever get back. Apparently he has been alone with Kurtz for many months. His sense of adventure is pure, and glamour urges him onward. The Russian remembers t... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,458 | 219_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During a flood on the River Thames in merry Old England, the British ship Nellie anchors near London and waits for the flood to recede. On board are five seamen--the unnamed narrator, a lawyer, an accountant, Marlow, and the Director. Notice how only one guy is named. That's important. Everything is peaceful and lovely... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One lazy day, Marlow is napping out on deck when he hears the manager and his uncle talking about something faintly interesting. Make that extremely interesting: Kurtz. The manager and his uncle are unhappy with Kurtz, because he's too influential with Company heads and they think he's stealing ivory. They oh-so-nicely... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Apparently, Kurtz keeps the harlequin around so he has someone to listen to him. But for the most part, Kurtz wanders alone among the Africans. In his expeditions, Kurtz raids various villages for ivory. He even gets the native Africans--who adore him--to help out with the raids. He's so obsessive about ivory that he e... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,458 | 219_part_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heart of Darkness begins on board the Nellie, a small ship moored on the Thames River in London. After describing the river and its slow-moving traffic, the unnamed narrator offers short descriptions of London's history to his companions who, with him, lazily lounge on the deck, waiting for the tide to turn. With him a... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_part_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening Marlow eavesdropped on the Manager and his uncle as they discussed Kurtz. Marlow learned that Kurtz asked the Company's Administration to send him into the jungle to show how much ivory he could acquire, and that he sent his assistant back to the Manager because he found him inadequate for the work. Marlow ... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_part_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Harlequin told Marlow that he had spent many nights listening to Kurtz speak about a variety of subjects. Marlow further learned that Kurtz was prone to wandering into the jungle with his band of native followers on ivory raids. While listening to the Harlequin, Marlow looked through his binoculars at Kurtz's quart... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,458 | 219_part_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beginning through Marlow's being hired as a steamboat captain. Part 1 At sundown, a pleasure ship called the Nellie lies anchored at the mouth of the Thames, waiting for the tide to go out. Five men relax on the deck of the ship: the Director of Companies, who is also the captain and host, the Lawyer, the Accountant, M... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_part_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marlow's overhearing of the conversation between the manager and his uncle through the beginning of his voyage up the river. Part 2 One evening, as Marlow lies on the deck of his wrecked steamer, the manager and his uncle appear within earshot and discuss Kurtz. The manager complains that Kurtz has come to the Congo wi... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_part_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Russian trader's description of Kurtz through the Russian trader's departure from the Inner Station. Part 3 The Russian trader begs Marlow to take Kurtz away quickly. He recounts for Marlow his initial meeting with Kurtz, telling him that Kurtz and the trader spent a night camped in the forest together, during whic... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,458 | 219_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene begins in the first-person voice of a man on board the cruising yawl, The Nellie, anchored on the Thames River outside of London at sunset. This unnamed narrator names the men on board the boat, the Director of Companies, the Lawyer, the Accountant, and Marlow. The frame narrator is proud of the accomplishme... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From the deck of his steamboat, Marlow overhears the Manager and his uncle, the head of the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, talking about Kurtz. The Manager admits to his uncle that he fears Kurtz, for he is favored by the company and may be promoted into his position of general manager. He is also jealous of Kurtz's su... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marlow is amazed the Russian "harlequin," in his foolish wanderings, has managed to survive in Africa. He is also amazed that the young man seems to want or expect nothing other than a space to exist. Marlow's wonder grows even stronger as he listens to the Russian speak admiringly of Kurtz and knows that it has been a... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,458 | 219_part_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heart of Darkness is the tale of Charlie Marlow's journey into the heart of the African Congo, where he encounters the extraordinary Mr. Kurtz. It is an expedition that has a tremendous impact on Marlow. This short novel is divided into three sections. The first section recounts Marlow's appointment as a steamboat oper... | [
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of\nthe sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly\ncalm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come\nto and wait for the turn of the tide.",
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the be... |
2,459 | 219_part_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Section II opens with Marlow reclining on the deck of his steamboat one evening. He hears several voices approaching and recognizes them as the Station Manager and the Manager's uncle, leader of the Eldorado Exploring Expedition. Marlow overhears the Manager comments that he was ordered to send Kurtz to the Inner Stati... | [
"\"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard\nvoices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling\nalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost\nmyself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as\nharmless as a little child, but I... |
2,460 | 219_part_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Section III opens with the Harlequin urging Marlow to take Kurtz away from the station. The Harlequin recounts how he traveled deep into the wilderness and eventually encountered Kurtz. He again speaks of how Kurtz has opened his mind and made him "see things." Marlow envies the Harlequin's strength to push so deeply i... | [
"\"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in\nmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,\nfabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and\naltogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was\ninconceivable how he had existed, how he had su... |
2,461 | 913_book_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Preface The Preface was not included in the first edition of the novel. Lermontov included it in the second edition to respond to critics and to clarify aspects of the novel for the public. In the Preface, Lermontov asserts that Pechorin is not a self-portrait, like critics believe, but rather the representation of a g... | [
"I was travelling post from Tiflis.",
"All the luggage I had in my cart consisted of one small portmanteau half\nfilled with travelling-notes on Georgia; of these the greater part has\nbeen lost, fortunately for you; but the portmanteau itself and the rest\nof its contents have remained intact, fortunately for me... |
2,462 | 913_book_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maxim Maximych and the unnamed narrator meet again. They share a room together, and Maxim Maximych makes the unnamed narrator, a sparse, but pleasant meal. After dinner, the two men sit in silence for a long time, finding nothing to discuss. In the silence, the unnamed narrator admires the landscape outside. He gives t... | [
"AFTER parting with Maksim Maksimych, I galloped briskly through the\ngorges of the Terek and Darial, breakfasted in Kazbek, drank tea in\nLars, and arrived at Vladikavkaz in time for supper. I spare you a\ndescription of the mountains, as well as exclamations which convey no\nmeaning, and word-paintings which conv... |
2,463 | 913_book_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Foreword The Foreword states that the next few stories are taken directly from Pechorin's journal. The Foreword is also the last time the unnamed narrator appears in the novel. The unnamed narrator explains his reasons for publishing contents from Pechorin's personal documents and informs readers that he has kept every... | [
"TAMAN is the nastiest little hole of all the seaports of Russia. I was\nall but starved there, to say nothing of having a narrow escape of being\ndrowned.",
"I arrived late at night by the post-car. The driver stopped the tired\ntroika [21] at the gate of the only stone-built house that stood at the\nentrance to... |
2,464 | 913_book_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This short story is told through multiple diary entries. Pechorin is in Pyatigorsk, and he is enamored with the landscape. After praising the landscape, Pechorin ventures to the Elizabeth spring, where he meets Grushnitsky, a cadet he has fought alongside. Pechorin reveals that he and Grushnitsky are civil towards each... | [
"YESTERDAY I arrived at Pyatigorsk. I have engaged lodgings at the\nextreme end of the town, the highest part, at the foot of Mount Mashuk:\nduring a storm the clouds will descend on to the roof of my dwelling.",
"This morning at five o'clock, when I opened my window, the room was\nfilled with the fragrance of th... |
2,465 | 913_book_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a Cossack village, Pechorin and the other officers get tired of playing boston, a card game. They start talking about predestination. Some of the men are for it, and some believe that men make their own destinies. Each side provides stories to support their stances. Vulich, a lieutenant with a penchant for gambling,... | [
"I ONCE happened to spend a couple of weeks in a Cossack village on our\nleft flank. A battalion of infantry was stationed there; and it was the\ncustom of the officers to meet at each other's quarters in turn and play\ncards in the evening.",
"On one occasion--it was at Major S----'s--finding our game of Boston ... |
2,466 | 942_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An English official in Georgetown, British Guiana, describes his friendship with a mysterious Venezuelan, Abel Guevez de Argensola, known generally in the colony as Mr. Abel. When the Englishman arrived at his post in 1887, Mr. Abel had been living in Georgetown about twelve years, and he enjoyed the respect of the Bri... | [
"It is a cause of very great regret to me that this task has taken so\nmuch longer a time than I had expected for its completion. It is\nnow many months--over a year, in fact--since I wrote to Georgetown\nannouncing my intention of publishing, IN A VERY FEW MONTHS, the whole\ntruth about Mr. Abel. Hardly less could... |
2,467 | 942_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Abel starts the story of his travels and adventures when, at the age of twenty-three, he takes part in an unsuccessful plot against the corrupt Venezuelan government. Instead of going into exile abroad, Abel decides to satisfy a boyhood ambition by exploring the interior of his country, south of the Orinoco river. The ... | [
"Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am\nnot sorry that it happened. I deserved your reproach: a hundred times\nI have wished to tell you the whole story of my travels and adventures\namong the savages, and one of the reasons which prevented me was the\nfear that it would have an un... |
2,468 | 942_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Returning several times to the forest, Abel is gradually convinced that "the bird or being" follows him during each of the visits. He concludes that the Indians may know more about this mystery than they have revealed. Offering Kua-ko his metal match-box in return for the native's services as a guide through the woodla... | [
"I was not disappointed on my next visit to the forest, nor on several\nsucceeding visits; and this seemed to show that if I was right in\nbelieving that these strange, melodious utterances proceeded from one\nindividual, then the bird or being, although still refusing to show\nitself, was always on the watch for m... |
2,469 | 942_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to the forest, Abel is very happy at the thought of leaving the Indians for the "green mansions" where he had found "so great happiness." He is amused by watching a spider chase an imaginary fly, caused by a moving shadow. A sound of laughter from someone, equally enjoying the spider's motions, suggests agai... | [
"After making a hasty meal at the house, I started, full of pleasing\nanticipations, for the wood; for how pleasant a place it was to be in! What a wild beauty and fragrance and melodiousness it possessed above\nall forests, because of that mystery that drew me to it! And it was\nmine, truly and absolutely--as much... |
2,470 | 942_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Abel regains consciousness, he finds himself in the hut of an old man, Nuflo. The forest girl is also in the shack and watches Abel very carefully although she remains in the background. Nuflo identifies the girl as Rima, his granddaughter, but Abel is not convinced by his explanation. According to Nuflo, Rima is ... | [
"With the return of consciousness, I at first had a vague impression that\nI was lying somewhere, injured, and incapable of motion; that it was\nnight, and necessary for me to keep my eyes fast shut to prevent them\nfrom being blinded by almost continuous vivid flashes of lightning. Injured, and sore all over, but ... |
2,471 | 942_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Abel, certain that the old man has been less than honest with him, determines to learn about Rima's history from Nuflo because he knows now that the girl will not willingly reveal the whole truth. Rima, moreover, has become very aloof after their meeting at the mora tree. Nuflo disappears with his dogs for long hours d... | [
"That afternoon with Rima in the forest under the mora tree had proved so\ndelightful that I was eager for more rambles and talks with her, but the\nvariable little witch had a great surprise in store for me. All her wild\nnatural gaiety had unaccountably gone out of her: when I walked in\nthe shade she was there, ... |
2,472 | 942_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the following morning, Rima continues to avoid Abel, and his hope that she will confide in him seems futile now. Later, however, Rima approaches Abel as he is sitting listlessly and leads him to the foot of the mountain of Ytaioa. She wants the two of them to climb to the top, and Abel is now convinced that Rima is ... | [
"There was a welcome change in the weather when I rose early next\nmorning; the sky was without cloud and had that purity in its colour\nand look of infinite distance seen only when the atmosphere is free from\nvapour. The sun had not yet risen, but old Nuflo was already among the\nashes, on his hands and knees, bl... |
2,473 | 942_chapters_13-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rima, though still shy with Abel, has changed noticeably, however, and enjoys an evening by the fire when the two men talk and sing happily. Next morning, unable to reason with Rima about the trip to Riolama, Abel tells her that their love may suffer if she is disappointed by the failure of the quest for the bird peopl... | [
"That evening by the fire old Nuflo, lately so miserable, now happy in\nhis delusions, was more than usually gay and loquacious. He was like\na child who by timely submission has escaped a threatened severe\npunishment. But his lightness of heart was exceeded by mine; and, with\nthe exception of one other yet to co... |
2,474 | 942_chapters_16-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After eighteen days, the three travelers arrive at the cave where Nuflo had first seen Rima's mother. No one is in the vicinity, of course, but Rima, still hopeful, climbs a nearby mountain to try to see some signs of human life. Abel follows her and endeavors again to convince Rima that the bird people no longer exist... | [
"We were eighteen days travelling to Riolama, on the last two making\nlittle progress, on account of continuous rain, which made us miserable\nbeyond description. Fortunately the dogs had found, and Nuflo had\nsucceeded in killing, a great ant-eater, so that we were well supplied\nwith excellent, strength-giving fl... |
2,475 | 942_chapters_18-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unlike Abel, Nuflo is not worried about Rima's return alone to the woodland because he has great confidence in her ability to survive in the jungle. Exhausted physically by the trip to Riolama and reassured by Nuflo, Abel rests for two days, but he then presses Nuflo to start back despite the latter's desire to relax l... | [
"When Nuflo at length opened his eyes he found me sitting alone and\ndespondent by the fire, just returned from my vain chase. I had been\ncaught in a heavy mist on the mountain-side, and was wet through as well\nas weighed down by fatigue and drowsiness, consequent upon the previous\nday's laborious march and my n... |
2,476 | 942_chapters_20-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Abel reaches Managa's village, he immediately starts to incite the chief to annihilate Runi's tribe. He is very successful in causing a massacre of the Parahuaris, but the sight of old Cla-cla, covered with blood, shocks Abel into a reaction of horror against the evil he has wrought in his revenge. Seeking isolati... | [
"That good fight had been to me like a draught of wine, and made me for\na while oblivious of my loss and of the pain from my wound. But the glow\nand feeling of exultation did not last: the lacerated flesh smarted; I\nwas weak from loss of blood, and oppressed with sensations of fatigue.\nIf my foes had appeared o... |
2,477 | 175_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first chapter begins on the evening that the managers of the Opera House, MM. Debienne and Poligny, are giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement. Six young ladies of the ballet, who were apparently running away from "the ghost," flood the dressing room of one of the main dancers, La Sorelli. Sorelli ... | [
"Prologue",
"IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS SINGULAR WORK INFORMS THE READER HOW HE\nACQUIRED THE CERTAINTY THAT THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED",
"The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a\ncreature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the\nmanagers, or a product of the... |
2,478 | 175_chapters_6-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We return to M. Firmin Richard and M. Armand Moncharmin as they decide to look into the matter of Box Five. They make their way to that box, and are rather distressed. They enter the box and see a shape in it. Neither man says anything, but they spontaneously seize each other's hand. The figure disappears, and when the... | [
"Chapter V The Enchanted Violin",
"Christine Daae, owing to intrigues to which I will return later, did\nnot immediately continue her triumph at the Opera. After the famous\ngala night, she sang once at the Duchess de Zurich's; but this was the\nlast occasion on which she was heard in private. She refused, with... |
2,479 | 175_chapters_11-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Raoul sees Christine at the Opera. She is gentle and kind to him. Raoul is going to leave for a polar expedition soon. As for Christine, she tells him that in a month they shall have to say goodbye forever. Even though they cannot be married, they can certainly be engaged for a month. They play at being e... | [
"Chapter X Forget the Name of the Man's Voice",
"The day after Christine had vanished before his eyes in a sort of\ndazzlement that still made him doubt the evidence of his senses, M. le\nVicomte de Chagny called to inquire at Mamma Valerius'. He came upon a\ncharming picture. Christine herself was seated by t... |
2,480 | 175_chapters_16-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There is a backstory to the managers' odd behavior that goes beyond the events of the night the chandelier fell. The ghost was calmly paid his first 20,000 francs. One morning, the managers found on their table a note from the Opera Ghost that asked for the first month's payment. The managers did not hesitate and put t... | [
"Chapter XV Christine! Christine!",
"Raoul's first thought, after Christine Daae's fantastic disappearance,\nwas to accuse Erik. He no longer doubted the almost supernatural\npowers of the Angel of Music, in this domain of the Opera in which he\nhad set up his empire. And Raoul rushed on the stage, in a mad f... |
2,481 | 175_chapters_21-26_&_epilogue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Persian tells his account of his previous attempts to enter Erik's house. One day when he thought he was alone, he stepped into the boat and rowed toward that part of the wall through which he had seen Erik disappear. It was then that he came into contact with the siren who guarded the approach, and whose charm was... | [
"Chapter XX In the Cellars of the Opera",
"\"Your hand high, ready to fire!\" repeated Raoul's companion quickly.",
"The wall, behind them, having completed the circle which it described\nupon itself, closed again; and the two men stood motionless for a\nmoment, holding their breath.",
"At last, the Persian ... |
2,482 | 3207_book_i:_introduction,_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hobbes saw the purpose of the Leviathan as explaining the concepts of man and citizenship; he conceved of the work as contributing to a larger, three-pronged philosophical project that would explain nature in addition to these two phenomena. To begin his project, Hobbes argues that to understand the state we first need... | [
"PART 1 OF MAN. CHAPTER I. OF SENSE",
"Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly, and\nafterwards in Trayne, or dependance upon one another. Singly, they\nare every one a Representation or Apparence, of some quality, or other\nAccident of a body without us; which is commonly called an Obje... |
2,483 | 3207_book_i:_chapters_6-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After having described how the external world affects humans and gives us sense, memory, and experience, Hobbes now turns his attention to the internal mechanisms that affect human behavior. Hobbes claims that within animals like ourselves there are two types of internal motions: 1) vital motion, which can be thought o... | [
"CHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS COMMONLY CALLED THE PASSIONS. AND THE SPEECHES BY WHICH THEY ARE EXPRESSED.",
"Motion Vitall And Animal",
"There be in Animals, two sorts of Motions peculiar to them: One called\nVitall; begun in generation, and continued without interruption through... |
2,484 | 3207_book_i:_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the previous chapters, Hobbes has laid out a general case for how humans come to live in society, namely, that they are driven to it by fear. In order to have a more thorough picture of how society comes about, Hobbes directs his attention to human nature, so that we can precisely understand how humans go from this ... | [
"CHAPTER XIII. OF THE NATURALL CONDITION OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY",
"Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as\nthat though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger\nin body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned\ntogether, ... |
2,485 | 3207_book_ii:_chapters_17-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having analyzed man in Book I, and in particular how man is compelled to enter into society , Hobbes turns to a form of artificial man established through a covenant, namely, a commonwealth. As stated before, in order for a covenant to be valid a common power or a sovereign authority must enforce the terms of the contr... | [
"PART II. OF COMMON-WEALTH. CHAPTER XVII. OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMON-WEALTH",
"The End Of Common-wealth, Particular Security",
"The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty,\nand Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon\nthemselves, (i... |
2,486 | 3207_book_ii:_chapters_22-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having laid out the theoretical case for the absolute power of the sovereign, Hobbes devotes the rest of Book II to explaining in more detail how this commonwealth should function. Building upon the metaphor of the Leviathan as an artificial person, Hobbes shows how the commonwealth is organized around different "syste... | [
"CHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE",
"The Divers Sorts Of Systemes Of People",
"Having spoken of the Generation, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth, I\nam in order to speak next of the parts thereof. And first of Systemes,\nwhich resemble the similar parts, or Muscles of a Body natural... |
2,487 | 3207_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our story opens with a view of Darwinist forces amassed against those of the great Austro-Hungarian Empire. Then we find out that those forces are Prince Aleksander's desk accessories set up for a mock battle--and here we thought decorating our lockers was cool. Prince Aleksander is having to make do with pens and ink ... | [
"PART 1 OF MAN. CHAPTER I. OF SENSE",
"Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly, and\nafterwards in Trayne, or dependance upon one another. Singly, they\nare every one a Representation or Apparence, of some quality, or other\nAccident of a body without us; which is commonly called an Obje... |
2,488 | 3207_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alek and his two instructors go to the stables, which is apparently where one keeps one's giant war machines. Alek sees a Cyklop Stormwalker with two Spandau machine guns, which is bigger than any walker he's ever piloted. Klopp assures Alek that he will help pilot, and that Alek's father wants him ready to handle any ... | [
"CHAPTER II. OF IMAGINATION",
"That when a thing lies still, unlesse somewhat els stirre it, it will\nlye still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a\nthing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat els\nstay it, though the reason be the same, (namely, that nothing can ch... |
2,489 | 3207_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's time to switch gears, in a manner of speaking. This chapter opens in England, where Deryn Sharp has fallen asleep on her aeronautics manual. Falling asleep on textbooks: we can relate. Her elder brother, Jaspert, wakes her up, and they bicker about the airman middy's test she'll be taking that day. Deryn tries on ... | [
"CHAPTER III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAYNE OF IMAGINATIONS",
"By Consequence, or Trayne of Thoughts, I understand that succession\nof one Thought to another, which is called (to distinguish it from\nDiscourse in words) Mentall Discourse.",
"When a man thinketh on any thing whatsoever, His next Thought after, is... |
2,490 | 3207_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now it's time for the officers to try to thin the ranks of new recruits. Only the best and bravest for the British Air Service. The first intimidation factor comes from lupine tigeresques--yes, gigantic wolf tigers. We're not sure we would make it, but Deryn does. A bunch of other recruits don't stop running until they... | [
"CHAPTER IV. OF SPEECH",
"Originall Of Speech",
"The Invention of Printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention\nof Letters, is no great matter. But who was the first that found the use\nof Letters, is not known. He that first brought them into Greece, men\nsay was Cadmus, the sonne of Agenor, King of... |
2,491 | 3207_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alek comes around in the belly of the walker, where one of the men is keeping an eye on him. The man introduces himself as Corporal Bauer, and when Alek demands to be let go, Bauer calls for Volger. We guess being a prince will only get you so far. While Klopp pilots the walker, Volger tells Alek that he and Alek's fat... | [
"CHAPTER V. OF REASON, AND SCIENCE.",
"Reason What It Is",
"When a man Reasoneth, hee does nothing els but conceive a summe totall,\nfrom Addition of parcels; or conceive a Remainder, from Substraction of\none summe from another: which (if it be done by Words,) is conceiving of\nthe consequence of the names of ... |
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