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2,729 | 122_book_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thomasin is deeply shaken by the sudden death of her husband, Damon Wildeve, whatever his faults. She moves to Blooms-End, to live with Clym. Predictably, given his mournful demeanor and deep sensitivity, Clym is shattered by the death of his wife Eustacia. He withdraws deeply into himself, living in solitude in his ha... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK SIX -- AFTERCOURSES\n1--The Inevitable Movement Onward",
"The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout\nEgdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known\nincidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and\nmodified, till the original reality bo... |
2,710 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Twilight descends on Egdon Heath. It is Saturday, the fifth of November. Egdon Heath, which figures in the Doomsday Book of 1086, has changed little since then. Human presence is evident only by the existence of a road and the prehistoric burial mounds that dot the Heath. An old man wearing naval clothes walks along th... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n1--A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression",
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight,\nand the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned\nitself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud\nshutting out the sky was as a tent... |
2,664 | 122_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The group that has gathered on the heath has come to build the traditional bonfire for the November 5 celebration of Guy Fawkes Day. The characters around the bonfire include Timothy Fairway, Humphrey, Sam, Grandfather Cantle, Christian Cantle, Olly Dowden, and Susan Nunsuch. There is a great deal of good nature ribald... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The Custom of the Country",
"Had a looker-on been posted in the immediate vicinity of the barrow,\nhe would have learned that these persons were boys and men of the\nneighbouring hamlets. Each, as he ascended the barrow, had been heavily\nladen with furze faggots, carried upon the shoulder by means... |
2,711 | 122_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Yeobright meets the reddleman, Diggory Venn, outside the Quiet Woman Inn. He tells her that Thomasin is in his van. When she finds her niece, Mrs. Yeobright learns that Thomasin's marriage has not taken place. Mrs. Yeobright takes Thomasin and goes into the inn to confront Wildeve and find out what has happened to... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Halt on the Turnpike Road",
"Down, downward they went, and yet further down--their descent at each\nstep seeming to outmeasure their advance. Their skirts were scratched\nnoisily by the furze, their shoulders brushed by the ferns, which,\nthough dead and dry, stood erect as when alive, no suffi... |
2,712 | 122_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Johnny Nunsuch is wearily and reluctantly tending the bonfire as commanded by Eustacia. The latter walks to Rainbarrow to gaze at the "Quiet Woman" and then comes back to look at the bonfire in front of her house. Wildeve signals his approach by means of a stone thrown into the water; Eustacia hurriedly sends the boy a... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--The Figure against the Sky",
"When the whole Egdon concourse had left the site of the bonfire to its\naccustomed loneliness, a closely wrapped female figure approached the\nbarrow from that quarter of the heath in which the little fire lay. Had\nthe reddleman been watching he might have recognized ... |
2,713 | 122_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clasping his sixpence, Johnny Nunsuch starts off for home. Frightened by a strange light, he returns to the bonfire and Eustacia. Not wanting to intrude on Eustacia and Wildeve, he retraces his steps. In his terror, he slips and falls right at the feet of Diggory Venn. The child lets slip that Eustacia is meeting Wilde... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody",
"As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped\nthe money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his\ncourage, and began to run. There was really little danger in allowing a\nchild to go home alone on thi... |
2,714 | 122_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Venn calls on Eustacia, but she cannot be persuaded to give up Wildeve, despite his telling her that he has seen and overheard them at Rainbarrow. Venn goes to Mrs. Yeobright and asks for her niece's hand in marriage, informing her that though he himself has proposed to Thomasin and been rejected, things are different ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n10--A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion",
"The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very\ninsignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude\nof Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were\nlike an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, th... |
2,715 | 122_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Humphrey and Sam, the furze cutters, are engaged in bringing together and stacking up the furze, closely supervised by Captain Vye. They talk about Clym, his profession, his "strange notions," and his life in Paris. After Captain Vye leaves, Sam and Humphrey remark that Eustacia and Clym are made for each other, foresh... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK TWO -- THE ARRIVAL\n1--Tidings of the Comer",
"On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain\nephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the\nmajestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those\nof a town, a village, or even a farm, would... |
2,716 | 122_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charley is one of the Egdon mummers for the present year, and he and the other mummers practice in Captain Vye's house for the play "Saint George. " On the night they are to perform in Mrs. Yeobright's house, Eustacia arranges to take Charley's place in order to see Clym and study him in the guise of the Turkish Knight... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure",
"In the evening of this last day of expectation, which was the\ntwenty-third of December, Eustacia was at home alone. She had passed\nthe recent hour in lamenting over a rumour newly come to her ears--that\nYeobright's visit to his mother was to be of short dura... |
2,718 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The heath dwellers are proud to have someone like Clym Yeobright in their neighborhood. He was a gifted boy with awe- inspiring talent, and his career as a manager to a diamond merchant in Paris impresses them. When he comes by the haircutting at Fairways and declares that he would like to stay on Egdon Heath and becom... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK THREE -- THE FASCINATION\n1--\"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is\"",
"In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance\nof the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its\nPheidias may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put\nup with, replacing th... |
2,719 | 122_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym goes to Captain Vye's house on the pretense of helping with the fallen bucket. In truth, he wishes to meet Eustacia, who comes to the well when she sees him. Helping him get water from the well, Eustacia injures herself. She converses with Clym, but she refuses to admit that she was the young woman disguised as th... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The First Act in a Timeworn Drama",
"The afternoon was fine, and Yeobright walked on the heath for an hour\nwith his mother. When they reached the lofty ridge which divided the\nvalley of Blooms-End from the adjoining valley they stood still and\nlooked round. The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the... |
2,720 | 122_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Mrs. Yeobright visits Thomasin, she learns that her son and Eustacia are engaged to be married. She confronts Clym about the engagement, and they quarrel bitterly. He tells his mother that he will not tolerate her criticism of Eustacia or his plans any longer and plans to move out of her house. He goes to Eustacia... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues",
"When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his\nbooks; when he was not reading he was meeting her. These meetings were\ncarried on with the greatest secrecy.",
"One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomas... |
2,717 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym's wedding takes place in the parish church in Mistover. Thomasin attends the wedding, but Wildeve does not. Mrs. Yeobright sits at home torturing herself and feeling resentful. While Thomasin is at the wedding, Wildeve calls upon Mrs. Yeobright to pick up a package for his wife. Since the package contains money fo... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness",
"The old captain's prevailing indifference to his granddaughter's\nmovements left her free as a bird to follow her own courses; but it so\nhappened that he did take upon himself the next morning to ask her why\nshe had walked out so late.",
"\"Only in sear... |
2,722 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym and Eustacia are living in their little house at Alderworth, and Clym spends his time studying. Eustacia is still hopeful that he will decide to return to Paris. Mrs. Yeobright is puzzled as to why Clym has said nothing to her about the money she has sent him. Then she learns from Christian that he has lost it all... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FOUR -- THE CLOSED DOOR\n1--The Rencounter by the Pool",
"The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.\nIt was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season,\nin which the heath was gorgeous. This flowering period represented the\nsecond or noontide divi... |
2,723 | 122_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia feels quite weighed down by depression. With Clym's consent she dresses herself with great care and goes to East Egdon where a dance is to be held. She is desperately fond of dancing and feels quite envious of the dancing couples. Unexpectedly she comes upon Wildeve who invites her to dance. She accepts and ha... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--She Goes Out to Battle against Depression",
"A few days later, before the month of August has expired, Eustacia and\nYeobright sat together at their early dinner.",
"Eustacia's manner had become of late almost apathetic. There was a\nforlorn look about her beautiful eyes which, whether she deserv... |
2,724 | 122_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the hot thirty-first day of August, Mrs. Yeobright decides to go to Alderworth to attempt a reconciliation. Not being sure of the way, she wanders around on the heath longer than she should have. Finally she inquires about the way from a laborer and is told to follow a certain furze cutter, whom she can just see in ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--The Journey across the Heath",
"Thursday, the thirty-first of August, was one of a series of days during\nwhich snug houses were stifling, and when cool draughts were treats;\nwhen cracks appeared in clayey gardens, and were called \"earthquakes\" by\napprehensive children; when loose spokes were d... |
2,721 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym dreams about his mother while asleep and, once awake, determines to go and see her. Eustacia is fearful that Mrs. Yeobright will tell Clym about what has just transpired at their house and tries to persuade him not to go. Her words fall on deaf ears, for Clym is determined to set things right with him mother again... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Morning and the Evening of a Day",
"The wedding morning came. Nobody would have imagined from appearances\nthat Blooms-End had any interest in Mistover that day. A solemn\nstillness prevailed around the house of Clym's mother, and there was no\nmore animation indoors. Mrs. Yeobright, who had de... |
2,697 | 122_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym takes his mother's death hard and falls sick, feeling guilty and remorseful at the memory of his mother's last words. He blames himself for her death, and neither Eustacia's sense nor Thomasin's sensibility can shake him from the conviction that he is responsible. When Thomasin comes to visit Clym, Wildeve comes l... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FIVE -- THE DISCOVERY\n1--\"Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery\"",
"One evening, about three weeks after the funeral of Mrs. Yeobright, when\nthe silver face of the moon sent a bundle of beams directly upon the\nfloor of Clym's house at Alderworth, a woman came forth from within. S... |
2,726 | 122_chapter_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian Cantle comes to Alderworth to announce the birth of Thomasin's child. Clym, having somewhat recovered from his illness, questions Christian and learns that Mrs. Yeobright had planned to visit his house and that Venn had spoken to her on the day of her death. Clym is eager to speak with the reddleman, who soon... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding",
"Clym's grief became mitigated by wearing itself out. His strength\nreturned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been\nseen walking about the garden. Endurance and despair, equanimity and\ngloom, the tints of health and the ... |
2,727 | 122_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Feeling numb, dazed, and scarcely conscious of anything around her, Eustacia wanders back to her grandfather's house. He is not in, but Charley is. He is horror-stricken at the state she is in and hovers around her, trying his best to be of service. He offers her food and drink and lights a fire. When he sees her looki... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One",
"Eustacia's journey was at first as vague in direction as that of\nthistledown on the wind. She did not know what to do. She wished it had\nbeen night instead of morning, that she might at least have borne her\nmisery without the possibility of being seen... |
2,702 | 122_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym has moved from Alderworth into his mother's house in Bloomsend. He waits there, hoping to hear from Eustacia. On the fifth of November, Clym goes to Thomasin's house. She is alone, for her husband has gone for a "walk." Actually he has gone to meet Eustacia. Clym informs Thomasin about the rift between him and his... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter",
"Yeobright was at this time at Blooms-End, hoping that Eustacia would\nreturn to him. The removal of furniture had been accomplished only that\nday, though Clym had lived in the old house for more than a week. He had\nspent the time in worki... |
2,725 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the next evening, November 6, Eustacia comes to a decision and signals Wildeve that she is ready to leave. At ten o'clock, Fairway delivers the letter from Clym into the hands of Captain Vye. When he attempts to deliver it to his granddaughter, he finds her room dark and supposes she is asleep. In truth, she has alr... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends",
"He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked\naround. Eustacia was sitting in a chair hard by him, and though she held\na book in her hand she had not looked into it for some time.",
"\"Well, indeed!\" said Clym, brushing his eyes ... |
2,705 | 122_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The light that Thomasin sees when Venn is escorting her back home is the light of the gig that Wildeve has kept ready for Eustacia's flight. Clym, while searching for his wife, finds Wildeve nearby. Just as they recognize each other, they hear the noise of a body falling into the stream adjoining Shadwater Weir. Feelin... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n9--Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together",
"Having seen Eustacia's signal from the hill at eight o'clock, Wildeve\nimmediately prepared to assist her in her flight, and, as he hoped,\naccompany her. He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing\nThomasin that he was going on a journey... |
2,729 | 122_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Wildeve's death, Thomasin receives a substantial inheritance, but she decides to move into Bloomsend. Clym is glad and confines his own living quarters to two rooms in the back. Clym is busy preparing to be a preacher. At times, spurred by memories, he takes long, lonely walks on the heath. Venn, now a prosperous... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK SIX -- AFTERCOURSES\n1--The Inevitable Movement Onward",
"The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout\nEgdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known\nincidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and\nmodified, till the original reality bo... |
2,738 | 27805_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The River Bank" The novel opens during springtime, while Mole is conducting his annual spring cleaning around his underground burrow home. Suddenly, he is struck by a feeling of discontent, and immediately tunnels his way out of the earth and up into the middle of a field. Hearing the birds chirp and feeling the sunsh... | [
"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and w... |
2,739 | 27805_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Open Road" After some time of living with Rat, Mole has become incredibly interested in meeting the famed Mr. Toad. He asks Rat to bring him to Toad Hall - Toad's huge estate - and Rat agrees. They set off by boat. When they reach Toad Hall, they park in the boat house, where Rat points out the dozens of boats tha... | [
"\"Ratty,\" said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, \"if you\nplease, I want to ask you a favour.\"",
"The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had\njust composed it himself, so he was very taken up with it, and would\nnot pay proper attention to Mole or anything else. Since ear... |
2,740 | 27805_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Wild Wood" Chapter 3 - "The Wild Wood" Months after meeting Toad, Mole is curious about meeting the elusive Badger. He had hoped Badger might show up at Rat's house, but Rat keeps reminding Mole that Badger prefers solitude. As winter approaches, Rat begins napping for long periods of time, leaving Mole with the o... | [
"The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He\nseemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though\nrarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about\nthe place. But whenever the Mole mentioned his wish to the Water Rat,\nhe always found himself put off. ... |
2,741 | 27805_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Dulce Domum" Mid-December, Mole and Rat are traveling back from one of their many journeys when they come across a human town. They take a shortcut through a human village, and look through windows to see a number of sweet, happy scenes: people sewing, families eating, laughter, children sleeping. They feel even more ... | [
"The sheep ran huddling together against the hurdles, blowing out thin\nnostrils and stamping with delicate fore-feet, their heads thrown back\nand a light steam rising from the crowded sheep-pen into the frosty\nair, as the two animals hastened by in high spirits, with much chatter\nand laughter. They were returni... |
2,742 | 27805_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" Rat returns home late from a visit with Otter, and Mole asks how the day went. Rat explains that Otter was clearly preoccupied, since his son Portly had been missing for several days. Mole mentions that Portly is an adventurous child who often goes off on his own, but Rat counters that ... | [
"The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in\nthe dark selvedge of the river bank. Though it was past ten o'clock at\nnight, the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of\nlight from the departed day; and the sullen heats of the torrid\nafternoon broke up and rolled away at... |
2,743 | 27805_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Wayfarers All" Late in the summer, Rat becomes restless. He can feel the seasons changing and the birds preparing for their impending move South. Feeling betrayed because everyone leaves after summer ends, he wanders the area until he encounters some mice building their homes for the winter. The mice ask him to lend a... | [
"The Water Rat was restless, and he did not exactly know why. To all\nappearance the summer's pomp was still at fullest height, and although\nin the tilled acres green had given way to gold, though rowans were\nreddening, and the woods were dashed here and there with a tawny\nfierceness, yet light and warmth and co... |
2,744 | 27805_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" Now that Toad is back at the river, he wants to return immediately to Toad Hall. However, Rat has bad news: weasels and stoats moved into the property when they learned about Toad's sentence, and are now squatting there. Badger and Mole had tried to save the house, but were chased ... | [
"The Rat put out a neat little brown paw, gripped Toad firmly by the\nscruff of the neck, and gave a great hoist and a pull; and the\nwater-logged Toad came up slowly but surely over the edge of the hole,\ntill at last he stood safe and sound in the hall, streaked with mud\nand weed, to be sure, and with the water ... |
2,745 | 2946_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Howards End opens with three letters that Helen Schlegel writes to her older sister Margaret, whom she fondly calls Meg. Helen is visiting the Wilcox family, whom the sisters met while traveling in Germany, at their country estate, Howards End. Helen describes the place as being different than what she and her sister h... | [
"One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.",
"\"Howards End,",
"\"Tuesday.",
"\"Dearest Meg,",
"\"It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and\naltogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,\nand the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son)... |
2,746 | 2946_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With the Wilcox incident behind them, Margaret and Helen Schlegel move on with their lives. They attend a concert at Queens Hall with Tibby, Aunt Juley, their German cousin Frieda Mosebach, and their cousin's suitor, Herr Liesecke. Throughout the performance, Margaret chats with a young man, Tibby follows the music wit... | [
"It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the\nmost sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. All\nsorts and conditions are satisfied by it. Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come--of course, not so as\nto disturb the others--or like Hel... |
2,747 | 2946_chapters_8-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the day that Helen and Frieda are departing for Germany, Mrs. Wilcox calls on the Schlegels, who are not there to receive her. Helen seems unaffected by the situation, but Margaret sends Mrs. Wilcox a note suggesting that it would be better that they not maintain a friendship, as she wants to avoid any potential awk... | [
"The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop\nso quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its\nbeginnings at Speyer, in the spring. Perhaps the elder lady, as she\ngazed at the vulgar, ruddy cathedral, and listened to the talk of her\nhusband and Helen, may have detected... |
2,748 | 2946_chapters_12-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As luck would have it for the Wilcox family, Mrs. Wilcox never informed Margaret that she was to have Howards End. Even after her friend's death, Margaret continues to be involved with the Wilcoxes. In spite of their seriousness and practicality, she recognizes the importance of embracing different kinds of people, for... | [
"Charles need not have been anxious. Miss Schlegel had never heard of his\nmother's strange request. She was to hear of it in after years, when she\nhad built up her life differently, and it was to fit into position as\nthe headstone of the corner. Her mind was bent on other questions\nnow, and by her also it would... |
2,749 | 2946_chapters_16-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As he feared, Leonard Bast's visit for tea at Wickham Place is indeed a disaster. He initially considers himself fortunate to be amidst people as interesting as the Schlegels, and he thinks of them as "Romance." He is expecting an enjoyable follow-up to their last encounter, full of lively and literary conversation. Wh... | [
"Leonard accepted the invitation to tea next Saturday. But he was right;\nthe visit proved a conspicuous failure.",
"\"Sugar?\" said Margaret.",
"\"Cake?\" said Helen. \"The big cake or the little deadlies? I'm afraid\nyou thought my letter rather odd, but we'll explain--we aren't odd,\nreally--nor affected, re... |
2,750 | 2946_chapters_20-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Helen having made her peace with Margaret's potential engagement as much possible, Margaret accepts Mr. Wilcox's proposal. Mr. Wilcox arrives at Swanage to give Margaret an engagement ring. In the evening, the couple decided to take a walk together. Margaret is interested in discussing how their feelings for each ... | [
"Margaret had often wondered at the disturbance that takes place in the\nworld's waters, when Love, who seems so tiny a pebble, slips in. Whom\ndoes Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact\ndeluges a hundred shores. No doubt the disturbance is really the spirit\nof the generations, welcoming t... |
2,751 | 2946_chapters_25-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Upon hearing of her father's engagement to Margaret, Evie decides to have her wedding as soon as possible. The festivities will take place at Oniton Grange, the Wilcox estate near Wales. As the future Mrs. Wilcox, the wedding is an opportunity for Margaret to socialize with some of Mr. Wilcox's acquaintances. Although ... | [
"Evie heard of her father's engagement when she was in for a tennis\ntournament, and her play went simply to pot. That she should marry and\nleave him had seemed natural enough; that he, left alone, should do the\nsame was deceitful; and now Charles and Dolly said that it was all her\nfault. \"But I never dreamt of... |
2,752 | 2946_chapters_30-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Following Evie's wedding, Helen pays a visit to Tibby, who is finishing up his studies at Oxford. She wants him to inform Margaret that she will be going abroad for some time, and she asks Tibby to assume responsibility for her belongings, such as her books and furniture. She also tells him of Mr. Wilcox's relationship... | [
"Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of\ncollege, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as\nconcerned him, from his comfortable lodgings in Long Wall. He was not\nconcerned with much. When a young man is untroubled by passions and\nsincerely indifferent to public... |
2,753 | 2946_chapters_36-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After ushering Helen into Howards End, Margaret will not allow anyone else to enter. The people on the outside of the house include Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Mansbridge, the doctor, and Helen's cab driver. Even though Mr. Wilcox is the owner of the house, Margaret still denies him entry. Helen's cab driver reveals to Mr. Mansbri... | [
"\"Margaret, you look upset!\" said Henry.",
"Mansbridge had followed. Crane was at the gate, and the flyman had stood\nup on the box. Margaret shook her head at them; she could not speak any\nmore. She remained clutching the keys, as if all their future depended\non them. Henry was asking more questions. She sho... |
2,754 | 2946_chapters_41-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since his intimate meeting with Helen at Oniton, Leonard Bast has been living in misery. He blames himself for the entire situation, although more likely than not, she was the one who initiated their relationship. Leonard thinks he has ruined Helen, likening her to a work of art, and he constantly feels anxiety about w... | [
"Far different was Leonard's development. The months after Oniton,\nwhatever minor troubles they might bring him, were all overshadowed by\nRemorse. When Helen looked back she could philosophise, or she could\nlook into the future and plan for her child. But the father saw nothing\nbeyond his own sin. Weeks afterwa... |
2,755 | 2946_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator informs us that we're starting with Helen's letters to her sister, Meg. The first letter describes a house - a nice, homey place surrounded by trees. Sounds pretty good to us. Helen's apparently there, visiting some wealthy friends: Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox and their children. She plans to return to London that... | [
"One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.",
"\"Howards End,",
"\"Tuesday.",
"\"Dearest Meg,",
"\"It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and\naltogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,\nand the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son)... |
2,756 | 2946_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Upon reading her sister's last letter, Margaret is understandably freaked out, and expresses her concern to her Aunt Juley. After all, the sisters don't even know the Wilcoxes that well - they'd met them traveling in Germany, and were both invited to come visit the family. Margaret, as we already know, couldn't go beca... | [
"Margaret glanced at her sister's note and pushed it over the\nbreakfast-table to her aunt. There was a moment's hush, and then the\nflood-gates opened.",
"\"I can tell you nothing, Aunt Juley. I know no more than you do. We\nmet--we only met the father and mother abroad last spring. I know so\nlittle that I didn... |
2,757 | 2946_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aunt Juley thinks over her mission, and over her nieces' history as she travels. We learn that the three Schlegel children lost their mother when Tibby was born, when the girls were both pretty young. They were raised by their German father, who died five years later. Margaret has been in charge of the family ever sinc... | [
"Most complacently did Mrs. Munt rehearse her mission. Her nieces were\nindependent young women, and it was not often that she was able to help\nthem. Emily's daughters had never been quite like other girls. They\nhad been left motherless when Tibby was born, when Helen was five and\nMargaret herself but thirteen. ... |
2,758 | 2946_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in the Schlegel home at Wickham Place, London, Helen and Aunt Juley both break down. Counting Tibby, Margaret has three people to take care of. Aunt Juley quickly forgets that she herself was largely the cause of the troubles at Howards End, and starts to look at the situation in a more positive light - she tells ... | [
"Helen and her aunt returned to Wickham Place in a state of collapse, and\nfor a little time Margaret had three invalids on her hands. Mrs. Munt\nsoon recovered. She possessed to a remarkable degree the power of\ndistorting the past, and before many days were over she had forgotten\nthe part played by her own impru... |
2,759 | 2946_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens on the scene of the extended Schlegel family attentively listening to a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, each in their own way. Helen romantically infuses the music with her own imagination, and sees a whole fantastical string of images that accompany it. Margaret hears only the music. Tibby... | [
"It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the\nmost sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. All\nsorts and conditions are satisfied by it. Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come--of course, not so as\nto disturb the others--or like Hel... |
2,760 | 2946_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We learn immediately that the young man with the umbrella's name is Leonard Bast. He's not exactly poverty-stricken yet, but he's also certainly not in the same class as the Schlegels. He's undernourished in every possible way - physically, intellectually, emotionally. Leonard feels like his pride is a little bruised a... | [
"WE are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable and only\nto be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals\nwith gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are\ngentlefolk.",
"The boy, Leonard Bast, stood at the extreme verge of gentility. He was\nnot in the ab... |
2,761 | 2946_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Aunt Juley has some bad news - the Wilcoxes are moving into a new building across the street at Wickham Place. Aunt Juley, being more - well, for lack of a better word - normal than her nieces and nephew, always seems to be more up on the neighborhood gossip than they are, which is how she found out a... | [
"\"Oh, Margaret,\" cried her aunt next morning, \"such a most unfortunate\nthing has happened. I could not get you alone.\"",
"The most unfortunate thing was not very serious. One of the flats in\nthe ornate block opposite had been taken furnished by the Wilcox family,\n\"coming up, no doubt, in the hope of getti... |
2,762 | 2946_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator speculates as to the roots of the odd friendship of Mrs. Wilcox and Margaret Schlegel, which perhaps began before they even recognized it, when they first met in Germany. Mrs. Wilcox unintentionally makes trouble at Wickham Place by calling on the Schlegels. Margaret and Helen aren't sure what to do - Marg... | [
"The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop\nso quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its\nbeginnings at Speyer, in the spring. Perhaps the elder lady, as she\ngazed at the vulgar, ruddy cathedral, and listened to the talk of her\nhusband and Helen, may have detected... |
2,763 | 2946_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret, it is revealed, wasn't being entirely honest with her new friend - in fact, she thinks of herself as quite experienced. Even so, she isn't experienced enough to foresee the disaster that arrives when she throws a luncheon party for Mrs. Wilcox. She invites some usual Schlegel guests over; these clever people ... | [
"Mrs. Wilcox cannot be accused of giving Margaret much information about\nlife. And Margaret, on the other hand, has made a fair show of modesty,\nand has pretended to an inexperience that she certainly did not feel. She had kept house for over ten years; she had entertained, almost with\ndistinction; she had broug... |
2,764 | 2946_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After several days, Margaret worries that she and Mrs. Wilcox will never become close friends. Then, just as Margaret is despairing, Mrs. Wilcox asks her to go Christmas shopping. The two of them drive around all day, looking for Christmas presents. Margaret describes a typical Schlegel family Christmas, and mentions i... | [
"Several days passed.",
"Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people--there are many of\nthem--who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests\nand affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling round them.\nThen they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a\ndefinite ... |
2,765 | 2946_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In an abrupt shift, we find ourselves leaving a funeral. We see the attendees milling around, and learn that this is a Wilcox family funeral, in Hilton - it turns out to be Mrs. Wilcox's. We see the goings on from the perspective of a wood-cutter, who's saddened by the events. The people of the village obviously cared ... | [
"The funeral was over. The carriages had rolled away through the soft\nmud, and only the poor remained. They approached to the newly-dug shaft\nand looked their last at the coffin, now almost hidden beneath the\nspadefuls of clay. It was their moment. Most of them were women from the\ndead woman's district, to whom... |
2,766 | 2946_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It turns out that Margaret didn't know about Mrs. Wilcox's bequest after all. She feels undone by her friend's death, and contemplates the way in which she disappeared from the world. Margaret also thinks over the funeral - it was nothing but a ceremony, with nothing to do with Mrs. Wilcox's actual death. Finally, she ... | [
"Charles need not have been anxious. Miss Schlegel had never heard of his\nmother's strange request. She was to hear of it in after years, when she\nhad built up her life differently, and it was to fit into position as\nthe headstone of the corner. Her mind was bent on other questions\nnow, and by her also it would... |
2,767 | 2946_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two years pass. The Schlegels go about their business as usual, in the midst of a changing cityscape - London is getting bigger and badder. The narrator goes off on a little diatribe about the development of the city; he's distraught by the changes wrought by modern times. Margaret is also distraught - the lease on Wic... | [
"Over two years passed, and the Schlegel household continued to lead its\nlife of cultured, but not ignoble, ease, still swimming gracefully on\nthe grey tides of London. Concerts and plays swept past them, money had\nbeen spent and renewed, reputations won and lost, and the city herself,\nemblematic of their lives... |
2,768 | 2946_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the mystery of Mrs. Lanoline is solved. Her missing husband turns out to be our old friend, Leonard Bast, who stops by to explain about his wife's visit. The three Schlegels rush down, and though they expect a gallivanting philanderer, they instead find a downtrodden, pale young man. He has the air of som... | [
"The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained. Next day, just as\nthey were dressed to go out to dinner, a Mr. Bast called. He was a clerk\nin the employment of the Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company. Thus much\nfrom his card. He had come \"about the lady yesterday.\" Thus much from\nAnnie, who had shown him i... |
2,769 | 2946_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helen and Margaret are also struck by their experience with Leonard, and they can't stop talking about him to their friends at dinner that night. They keep finding ways to bring him up in conversation, even in relation to a paper on philanthropy that's being presented that evening. "Mr. Bast" becomes a stand-in for the... | [
"The sisters went out to dinner full of their adventure, and when they\nwere both full of the same subject, there were few dinner-parties that\ncould stand up against them. This particular one, which was all ladies,\nhad more kick in it than most, but succumbed after a struggle. Helen at\none part of the table, Mar... |
2,770 | 2946_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leonard comes over for tea the next weekend, but it doesn't go well at all. Helen and Margaret start asking him questions about his job, and he gets suspicious immediately. The women keep pushing the issue, asking if the Porphyrion is a good company. Leonard gets irate. The fact of the matter is, he doesn't really know... | [
"Leonard accepted the invitation to tea next Saturday. But he was right;\nthe visit proved a conspicuous failure.",
"\"Sugar?\" said Margaret.",
"\"Cake?\" said Helen. \"The big cake or the little deadlies? I'm afraid\nyou thought my letter rather odd, but we'll explain--we aren't odd,\nreally--nor affected, re... |
2,771 | 2946_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret is still worried about the housing problem - what will she do with her siblings and all of their things next September when they're kicked out of Wickham Place? Losing the house they grew up in is like losing a kind of spiritual balance. The siblings are due to visit Aunt Juley in Swanage, and Margaret really ... | [
"The Age of Property holds bitter moments even for a proprietor. When\na move is imminent, furniture becomes ridiculous, and Margaret now\nlay awake at nights wondering where, where on earth they and all\ntheir belongings would be deposited in September next. Chairs, tables,\npictures, books, that had rumbled down ... |
2,772 | 2946_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Aunt Juley's house, Margaret receives a letter from Mr. Wilcox, saying that he's leaving his house in London - would the Schlegels like to rent it? If she's interested, she should come back to London right away to look at it. Margaret wonders if this is actually a veiled attempt to get her to London so he can propos... | [
"As they were seated at Aunt Juley's breakfast-table at The Bays,\nparrying her excessive hospitality and enjoying the view of the bay, a\nletter came for Margaret and threw her into perturbation. It was from\nMr. Wilcox. It announced an \"important change\" in his plans. Owing to\nEvie's marriage, he had decided t... |
2,773 | 2946_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator waxes lyrical about the beauties of the English countryside for a little while. The reason, we learn, is that Frieda is visiting the Schlegels and Aunt Juley at Swanage, but she doesn't admire the scene as fervently as Aunt Juley would like. Frieda and Aunt Juley have a silly almost-argument about the virt... | [
"If one wanted to show a foreigner England, perhaps the wisest course would be to take him to the final section of the Purbeck Hills, and stand him on their summit, a few miles to the east of Corfe. Then system after system of our island would roll together under his feet. Beneath him is the valley of the Frome, an... |
2,774 | 2946_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret ponders the nature of love in relation to its legal validation, Matrimony. It's an odd relationship. She agrees to marry him, and their relationship, which is founded on "good humor" progresses to a new level. Mr. Wilcox shows up at Swanage the next day with a ring for Margaret. He comes over for dinner, and t... | [
"Margaret had often wondered at the disturbance that takes place in the\nworld's waters, when Love, who seems so tiny a pebble, slips in. Whom\ndoes Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact\ndeluges a hundred shores. No doubt the disturbance is really the spirit\nof the generations, welcoming t... |
2,775 | 2946_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles and Dolly are in a fight - or rather, Charles is berating Dolly for the situation the Wilcoxes are in. He blames her not only for Evie's coming marriage to Percy, but also for Mr. Wilcox's marriage to Margaret. Charles assumes that Margaret was just out to get Howards End, and fatalistically thinks that she's a... | [
"Charles had just been scolding his Dolly. She deserved the scolding, and\nhad bent before it, but her head, though bloody was unsubdued and her\nbegan to mingle with his retreating thunder.",
"\"You've waked the baby. I knew you would. (Rum-ti-foo,\nRackety-tackety-Tompkin!) I'm not responsible for what Uncle Pe... |
2,776 | 2946_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret feels particularly loving towards Mr. Wilcox the next day. She sees that he's not connected to his own feelings, and is even ashamed of them, and she hopes to cure him of that. Margaret's mantra is simple: "only connect" . She wants for people to be able to join the disparate parts of their own souls, and thus... | [
"Margaret greeted her lord with peculiar tenderness on the morrow. Mature\nas he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the\nrainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion.\nWithout it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts,\nunconnected arches that have never ... |
2,777 | 2946_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret and Helen have something of an odd argument over Margaret's decision to marry Mr. Wilcox. Helen gives in and tells her sister to go ahead and marry him, but not to expect her to like him. Rather, she's determined to keep disliking him , and to fully go about things her own way from now on. Helen at least grant... | [
"Margaret had no intention of letting things slide, and the evening\nbefore she left Swanage she gave her sister a thorough scolding. She\ncensured her, not for disapproving of the engagement, but for throwing\nover her disapproval a veil of mystery. Helen was equally frank. \"Yes,\"\nshe said, with the air of one ... |
2,778 | 2946_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Wilcox relates the tale of Margaret's odd encounter to Dolly over tea. The old woman is apparently called Miss Avery, and Mr. Wilcox thinks she's just a silly old maid. Dolly asks if Margaret thought Miss Avery was a "spook" and, though Margaret says that she wasn't frightened, Mr. Wilcox thinks that she was. Mr. W... | [
"\"It gave her quite a turn,\" said Mr. Wilcox, when retailing the incident\nto Dolly at tea-time. \"None of you girls have any nerves, really. Of\ncourse, a word from me put it all right, but silly old Miss Avery--she\nfrightened you, didn't she, Margaret? There you stood clutching a bunch\nof weeds. She might hav... |
2,779 | 2946_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evie hears about Mr. Wilcox's engagement while she's playing tennis, and it totally throws her game off. She, Charles, and Dolly are all upset about their new stepmother, and in order to cope, Evie moves her own wedding up by a month, to August. Margaret, it turns out, is expected to participate actively in Evie's wedd... | [
"Evie heard of her father's engagement when she was in for a tennis\ntournament, and her play went simply to pot. That she should marry and\nleave him had seemed natural enough; that he, left alone, should do the\nsame was deceitful; and now Charles and Dolly said that it was all her\nfault. \"But I never dreamt of... |
2,780 | 2946_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Margaret observes as the men of the party go for a swim, and is then summoned up to Evie's room to view the wedding dress. The women are all practically hysterical over the dress - they're ecstatically screaming and fussing over Evie, and are generally acting like stereotypical silly women. After brea... | [
"Next morning a fine mist covered the peninsula. The weather promised\nwell, and the outline of the castle mound grew clearer each moment that\nMargaret watched it. Presently she saw the keep, and the sun painted\nthe rubble gold, and charged the white sky with blue. The shadow of the\nhouse gathered itself togethe... |
2,781 | 2946_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helen begins to doubt herself - what's she doing, anyway? She figures that it'll all work out in the long run. Helen strives to explain Mr. Wilcox to Leonard after they put the drunk Jacky to bed. She tells him that she believes in "personal responsibility," meaning that she thinks everyone should think of themselves i... | [
"Helen began to wonder why she had spent a matter of eight pounds in\nmaking some people ill and others angry. Now that the wave of excitement\nwas ebbing, and had left her, Mr. Bast, and Mrs. Bast stranded for the\nnight in a Shropshire hotel, she asked herself what forces had made the\nwave flow. At all events, n... |
2,782 | 2946_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret spends hours thinking over everything that's happened, then writes a bunch of letters. The first is to Henry; she writes it instinctively, saying that everything will be fine between them, then edits it according to his taste. He's clearly changed her. Margaret then reevaluates, and wonders if she really can d... | [
"For many hours Margaret did nothing; then she controlled herself, and\nwrote some letters. She was too bruised to speak to Henry; she could\npity him, and even determine to marry him, but as yet all lay too deep\nin her heart for speech. On the surface the sense of his degradation was\ntoo strong. She could not co... |
2,783 | 2946_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Margaret confronts Mr. Wilcox. She tells him it doesn't make any difference to her, and he gets angry at this - he thinks that she's not acting like a real woman, and that she should be upset. Henry tries to push Margaret away, saying that he's not worthy of her love. He believes in the distinct diffe... | [
"\"Henry dear--\" was her greeting.",
"He had finished his breakfast, and was beginning the Times. His\nsister-in-law was packing. Margaret knelt by him and took the paper from\nhim, feeling that it was unusually heavy and thick. Then, putting her\nface where it had been, she looked up in his eyes.",
"\"Henry d... |
2,784 | 2946_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tibby lives in his own world at Oxford, and he clearly doesn't like to be troubled by the lives of others. He's a classic academic, and though he's not a particularly bad person, he never descends from his ivory tower. At present, he's learning Chinese, and it's his principal pastime. Helen turns up one day, after warn... | [
"Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of\ncollege, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as\nconcerned him, from his comfortable lodgings in Long Wall. He was not\nconcerned with much. When a young man is untroubled by passions and\nsincerely indifferent to public... |
2,785 | 2946_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's moving time at Wickham Place. The Schlegels' furniture is mostly moved to Howards End; the guy leasing the house actually died abroad, so it's empty until someone else comes along to rent it. Right before the big move, Henry and Margaret are married quietly. There's no big wedding - Tibby gives Margaret away, and ... | [
"Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the\ngenerations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an\nafter-life in the city of ghosts, while from others--and thus was the\ndeath of Wickham Place--the spirit slips before the body perishes. It\nhad decayed in the spring, disintegra... |
2,786 | 2946_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Wilcoxes decide to build a new house in Sussex, and one day, as Margaret is examining the plans, Dolly bursts in. Dolly has big news, but she's distracted for a bit as she relates the local gossip to Margaret. They discuss the new house, then Helen, then Charles and Dolly's financial situation . Finally, Dolly reme... | [
"She was looking at plans one day in the following spring--they had\nfinally decided to go down into Sussex and build--when Mrs. Charles\nWilcox was announced.",
"\"Have you heard the news?\" Dolly cried, as soon as she entered the room.\n\"Charles is so ang--I mean he is sure you know about it, or, rather, that\... |
2,787 | 2946_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a beautiful day in Hilton, and the narrator ominously tells us that it's the last happy day Margaret will have for a while. She walks through the village, and as she does, the narrator muses about England and Englishness , wondering why England doesn't have a national mythology. Margaret gets to the Avery farm, wh... | [
"The day of her visit was exquisite, and the last of unclouded happiness\nthat she was to have for many months. Her anxiety about Helen's\nextraordinary absence was still dormant, and as for a possible brush\nwith Miss Avery-that only gave zest to the expedition. She had also\neluded Dolly's invitation to luncheon.... |
2,788 | 2946_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sadly, poor Aunt Juley is in bad health - this isn't actually entirely a surprise, but it's unfortunate nonetheless. She has pneumonia, and Tibby and Margaret go to Swanage to look after her. They send for Helen. Aunt Juley is in a bad state, and Margaret worries that she will die. Helen says she can only come to see A... | [
"It was not unexpected entirely. Aunt Juley's health had been bad all\nwinter. She had had a long series of colds and coughs, and had been too\nbusy to get rid of them. She had scarcely promised her niece \"to really\ntake my tiresome chest in hand,\" when she caught a chill and developed\nacute pneumonia. Margaret... |
2,789 | 2946_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The fatal day arrives, and we find Mr. Wilcox and Margaret in Hilton with Dolly. Margaret is anxious, and Mr. Wilcox wants to go spring on Helen without her. Margaret runs to the washroom to gather herself, and Mr. Wilcox sneaks out without her, telling Dolly to make an excuse. The car starts on its way, but Dolly and ... | [
"One speaks of the moods of spring, but the days that are her true\nchildren have only one mood; they are all full of the rising and\ndropping of winds, and the whistling of birds. New flowers may come out,\nthe green embroidery of the hedges increase, but the same heaven broods\noverhead, soft, thick, and blue, th... |
2,790 | 2946_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry tries to interfere, since Margaret looks so upset, but she won't let him into the house. She openly disobeys him for the first time, and feels like this is a fight of women against men. The doctor then tries to intervene, saying that Helen might be having a nervous breakdown. Margaret turns away both of them, say... | [
"\"Margaret, you look upset!\" said Henry.",
"Mansbridge had followed. Crane was at the gate, and the flyman had stood\nup on the box. Margaret shook her head at them; she could not speak any\nmore. She remained clutching the keys, as if all their future depended\non them. Henry was asking more questions. She sho... |
2,791 | 2946_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret tries to kiss Helen, but her sister resists, basically accusing her of dishonestly tricking her into coming to Howards End. She is justifiably annoyed, and Margaret admits that she shouldn't have done it. Helen is businesslike, and describes her situation in full: the baby's due in June, and she is never going... | [
"Margaret bolted the door on the inside. Then she would have kissed her\nsister, but Helen, in a dignified voice, that came strangely from her,\nsaid:",
"\"Convenient! You did not tell me that the books were unpacked. I have\nfound nearly everything that I want.\"",
"\"I told you nothing that was true.\"",
"\... |
2,792 | 2946_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret returns to Charles and Dolly's house, and settles into a discussion with Henry about Helen. He tries immediately to take control, and treat her like an ignorant, submissive wife - but she'll have none of that. Margaret tries to jump straight in with her request about Howards End, but Henry's not done. He wants... | [
"The tragedy began quietly enough, and, like many another talk, by the\nman's deft assertion of his superiority. Henry heard her arguing with\nthe driver, stepped out and settled the fellow, who was inclined to be\nrude, and then led the way to some chairs on the lawn. Dolly, who\nhad not been \"told,\" ran out wit... |
2,793 | 2946_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles meets with Tibby at the house at Ducie Street. The two of them have nothing at all in common, and their conversation is a travesty. Charles is determined to get rid of Helen, who he sees as nothing but a liability. Tibby, however, has the luxury of wealth and freedom, and he thinks that Helen should be able to ... | [
"Charles and Tibby met at Ducie Street, where the latter was staying. Their interview was short and absurd. They had nothing in common but the\nEnglish language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them\nunderstood. Charles saw in Helen the family foe. He had singled her out\nas the most dangerous of t... |
2,794 | 2946_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helen finally opens up to Margaret about Leonard, but Margaret is confused by how Helen fell in love - with an idea, rather than with a man. The night is all about Helen coming clean and evaluating everything; she realizes that she'd blamed Mr. Wilcox for everything when she should have. Helen also feels guilty about t... | [
"Leonard--he would figure at length in a newspaper report, but that\nevening he did not count for much. The foot of the tree was in shadow,\nsince the moon was still hidden behind the house. But above, to right,\nto left, down the long meadow the moonlight was streaming. Leonard\nseemed not a man, but a cause.",
... |
2,795 | 2946_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Poor Leonard is not having a good time; he, unlike Helen, hasn't been able to intellectually process their affair. He's full of remorse. Leonard never once imagines that it might be Helen's fault, or that they might at least share the blame. We, however, see that she is just as responsible as he was, or perhaps more - ... | [
"Far different was Leonard's development. The months after Oniton,\nwhatever minor troubles they might bring him, were all overshadowed by\nRemorse. When Helen looked back she could philosophise, or she could\nlook into the future and plan for her child. But the father saw nothing\nbeyond his own sin. Weeks afterwa... |
2,796 | 2946_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rewind - we go back to Charles's encounter with Tibby. After leaving Ducie Street, Charles returns home, not knowing about the whole Helen-at-Howards End debacle. Mr. Wilcox is worried about Margaret, who hasn't come home . Late that night, Charles and Mr. Wilcox have a heart-to-heart. Mr. Wilcox is worried about Marga... | [
"When Charles left Ducie Street he had caught the first train home, but\nhad no inkling of the newest development until late at night. Then\nhis father, who had dined alone, sent for him, and in very grave tones\ninquired for Margaret.",
"\"I don't know where she is, pater\" said Charles. \"Dolly kept back dinner... |
2,797 | 2946_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret is confused and horrified by all of this. How could any of this have happened? All Leonard wanted was to experience the beauty in the world, and this is what he got. Helen is also terrified, and all she can do is try to be calm and pick flowers to lay in poor Leonard's arms. Miss Avery tries to soothe her by r... | [
"Out of the turmoil and horror that had begun with Aunt Juley's illness\nand was not even to end with Leonard's death, it seemed impossible\nto Margaret that healthy life should re-emerge. Events succeeded in\na logical, yet senseless, train. People lost their humanity, and took\nvalues as arbitrary as those in a p... |
2,798 | 2946_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom and Helen are discussing whether or not the baby is old enough to play in the freshly mown hay. Helen agrees, and the little boy runs off with the baby. Margaret and Helen agree that Tom and the baby will grow up to be lifelong friends, despite their difference in class. We find out that fourteen months have passed... | [
"Tom's father was cutting the big meadow. He passed again and again amid\nwhirring blades and sweet odours of grass, encompassing with narrowing\ncircles the sacred centre of the field. Tom was negotiating with Helen.\n\"I haven't any idea,\" she replied. \"Do you suppose baby may, Meg?\"",
"Margaret put down her... |
2,745 | 2946_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Young, pretty Helen Schlegel has left her London home to visit the Wilcox family estate, Howards End. Margaret was also invited to Howards End, but stayed home to care for their 16-year-old brother Tibby, who has hay fever. From Howards End, Helen sends Margaret several letters describing the beautiful estate and ... | [
"One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.",
"\"Howards End,",
"\"Tuesday.",
"\"Dearest Meg,",
"\"It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and\naltogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,\nand the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son)... |
2,799 | 2946_chapters_5-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Schlegels take Aunt Juley, a German cousin, and their cousin's suitor to a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. There, Margaret meets and converses with a lower-class young man named Leonard Bast. Tibby watches the music with a score on his knee, and Aunt Juley taps her foot. During the last two movement... | [
"It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the\nmost sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. All\nsorts and conditions are satisfied by it. Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come--of course, not so as\nto disturb the others--or like Hel... |
2,800 | 2946_chapters_10-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox go Christmas shopping together, and Margaret reflects on the muddiness and clumsiness of the Christmas holiday, thinking that it does a poor job of reflecting "the unseen." In conversation, she reveals to Mrs. Wilcox that the Schlegels will be forced to move away from Wickham Place in two... | [
"Several days passed.",
"Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people--there are many of\nthem--who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests\nand affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling round them.\nThen they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a\ndefinite ... |
2,801 | 2946_chapters_14-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Leonard comes to visit the Schlegels to apologize for his wife's intrusion. Trying to speak loftily, he first refuses to explain why Jacky thought he was at Wickham Place. Eventually, he drops his awkward affectations and starts talking about how, in an attempt to get back to nature, he walked all nig... | [
"The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained. Next day, just as\nthey were dressed to go out to dinner, a Mr. Bast called. He was a clerk\nin the employment of the Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company. Thus much\nfrom his card. He had come \"about the lady yesterday.\" Thus much from\nAnnie, who had shown him i... |
2,802 | 2946_chapters_18-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Vacationing with Aunt Juley in Swanage, Margaret receives a letter from Mr. Wilcox, saying that he is moving to a different house and would be willing to rent the Schlegels his old one. He asks Margaret to come and inspect it. Margaret has a sudden premonition that he means to propose to her, but she dismisses the... | [
"As they were seated at Aunt Juley's breakfast-table at The Bays,\nparrying her excessive hospitality and enjoying the view of the bay, a\nletter came for Margaret and threw her into perturbation. It was from\nMr. Wilcox. It announced an \"important change\" in his plans. Owing to\nEvie's marriage, he had decided t... |
2,803 | 2946_chapters_23-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret and Helen discuss Margaret's engagement to Henry; Helen admits that she does not like him, but promises to try to be civil to him. Margaret travels with Henry to Hilton, where they dine with Charles and Dolly, then take an excursion to Howards End. When they arrive, they realize that they have forgotten ... | [
"Margaret had no intention of letting things slide, and the evening\nbefore she left Swanage she gave her sister a thorough scolding. She\ncensured her, not for disapproving of the engagement, but for throwing\nover her disapproval a veil of mystery. Helen was equally frank. \"Yes,\"\nshe said, with the air of one ... |
2,804 | 2946_chapters_27-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helen and Leonard discuss Henry at their hotel, while Jacky sleeps in another room. Helen regales him with theories about the concept of "I": A certain kind of person, she says, is missing the "I" from the middle of their brains. She says that Mr. Wilcox is such a person, perhaps the world will fall to such people,... | [
"Helen began to wonder why she had spent a matter of eight pounds in\nmaking some people ill and others angry. Now that the wave of excitement\nwas ebbing, and had left her, Mr. Bast, and Mrs. Bast stranded for the\nnight in a Shropshire hotel, she asked herself what forces had made the\nwave flow. At all events, n... |
2,805 | 2946_chapters_32-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Margaret and Henry decide to build a new home in Sussex. One day, as Margaret looks over the plans, Dolly appears with a strange bit of news: Miss Avery has begun unpacking all of the Schlegels' luggage, and arranging their furniture and possessions at Howards End. Charles, Dolly inadvertently lets slip, suspect... | [
"She was looking at plans one day in the following spring--they had\nfinally decided to go down into Sussex and build--when Mrs. Charles\nWilcox was announced.",
"\"Have you heard the news?\" Dolly cried, as soon as she entered the room.\n\"Charles is so ang--I mean he is sure you know about it, or, rather, that\... |
2,806 | 2946_chapters_37-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inside Howards End, Margaret does not ask Helen to explain her pregnancy; nor does she ask who the father is. She merely asks about Helen's situation--she is living in Munich with a journalist named Monica--and why Helen did not tell her what had happened. At first, they seem far apart from one another, and their... | [
"Margaret bolted the door on the inside. Then she would have kissed her\nsister, but Helen, in a dignified voice, that came strangely from her,\nsaid:",
"\"Convenient! You did not tell me that the books were unpacked. I have\nfound nearly everything that I want.\"",
"\"I told you nothing that was true.\"",
"\... |
2,754 | 2946_chapters_41-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his indiscretion with Helen, Leonard is consumed with a pitiless remorse that eats away at him. Seeing Margaret and Tibby in a cathedral one day, he resolves to confess his misdeed to Margaret, hoping to ease his conscience. However, he knows nothing of Margaret--not even that she is married to Henry Wilcox... | [
"Far different was Leonard's development. The months after Oniton,\nwhatever minor troubles they might bring him, were all overshadowed by\nRemorse. When Helen looked back she could philosophise, or she could\nlook into the future and plan for her child. But the father saw nothing\nbeyond his own sin. Weeks afterwa... |
2,807 | 974_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meet Mr. Verloc, who's leaving his brother-in-law in charge of his London shop as he steps out for a little walk. The brother-in-law doesn't sound all that capable of running the place, but truth is that Verloc doesn't really care all that much about his "ostensible" business. The shop is attached to his house, which i... | [
"Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of\nhis brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little\nbusiness at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr\nVerloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover,\nhis wife was in charge ... |
2,808 | 974_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the first chapter has described the Verloc household, the book returns to the opening line of the novel and reminds us that Mr. Verloc is leaving his home/shop in Stevie's care at half-past ten in the morning. The narrator mentions that the sun is "a peculiarly London sun--against nothing could be said except ... | [
"Such was the house, the household, and the business Mr Verloc left behind\nhim on his way westward at the hour of half-past ten in the morning. It\nwas unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost\ndewy freshness; he wore his blue cloth overcoat unbuttoned; his boots\nwere shiny; his cheek... |
2,809 | 974_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a brief speech that someone seems to be giving on the nature of social change. The speaker insists that people's ideas have no bearing on the course of human history, and that the future is always determined by material things, like who's got cash and who doesn't. Basically, the speaker is talkin... | [
"\" . . . All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take\naway its character of complexity--it is to destroy it. Leave that to the\nmoralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in\ntheir heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an\ninsignificant part in the... |
2,810 | 974_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator describes a nicely decorated downstairs lounge called the Silenus Restaurant. Comrade Ossipon sits at a table and starts talking about a "confounded affair" to another person. The big, muscular Ossipon seems to be nervous around this other guy, even though the narrator describes the guy as "frail enough fo... | [
"Most of the thirty or so little tables covered by red cloths with a white\ndesign stood ranged at right angles to the deep brown wainscoting of the\nunderground hall. Bronze chandeliers with many globes depended from the\nlow, slightly vaulted ceiling, and the fresco paintings ran flat and dull\nall round the wal... |
2,811 | 974_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Five follows the Professor after he has left the Silenus Restaurant. Right away, he becomes self-conscious about how short he is in the London crowd, but reassures himself by feeling the rubber ball in his pocket and fantasizing about all the people he could blow up if he chose to. Here, the narrator gives us a... | [
"The Professor had turned into a street to the left, and walked along, with his head carried rigidly erect, in a crowd whose every individual almost overtopped his stunted stature. It was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed. But that was mere feeling; the stoicism of his thought could not be dis... |
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