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2,812 | 974_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meet the "lady patroness of Michaelis," an old wealthy woman who's decided to take care of the overweight ex-con in her country home. The narrator describes the woman as kind, but unwaveringly certain in her opinions. She's also good friends with the Assistant Commissioner's wife. Now that she's old, the woman tends to... | [
"The lady patroness of Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle of\nhumanitarian hopes, was one of the most influential and distinguished\nconnections of the Assistant Commissioner's wife, whom she called Annie,\nand treated still rather as a not very wise and utterly inexperienced\nyoung girl. But she had consented ... |
2,813 | 974_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Assistant Commissioner walks along a "short and narrow street like a wet, middy trench" and eventually enters a public building, where he meets a young, fresh-faced male secretary. This secretary, who has the vibe of "a large and neat schoolboy" , looks at the Assistant Commissioner doubtfully and says that his bos... | [
"The Assistant Commissioner walked along a short and narrow street like a\nwet, muddy trench, then crossing a very broad thoroughfare entered a\npublic edifice, and sought speech with a young private secretary (unpaid)\nof a great personage.",
"This fair, smooth-faced young man, whose symmetrically arranged hair ... |
2,814 | 974_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We learn that Winnie's mother has a found a place for herself in a charity almshouse, which is basically a version of an old folks' home during Conrad's time. The news shocks Winnie, who asks her mother if she wasn't comfortable living with the Verlocs. After this, Winnie falls into a disappointed silence. That leaves ... | [
"Having infused by persistent importunities some sort of heat into the\nchilly interest of several licensed victuallers (the acquaintances once\nupon a time of her late unlucky husband), Mrs Verloc's mother had at last\nsecured her admission to certain almshouses founded by a wealthy\ninnkeeper for the destitute wi... |
2,815 | 974_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Verloc returns from his trip to the Continent after being gone for ten days, but doesn't seem to be any happier. He enters his shop "sombre and vexed" and goes straight to the chair behind the counter to sit down. Stevie is in the shop dusting a few things, and he stares at Verloc "with reverence and awe" . Mr. Ver... | [
"Mr Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought\nback a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a\ncountenance unlighted by the joys of home-coming. He entered in the\nclatter of the shop bell with an air of sombre and vexed exhaustion. His\nbag in hand, his head lo... |
2,816 | 974_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Assistant Commissioner rides in a cab back to the parliament building. When he arrives, he runs into Toodles. Toodles is very surprised to find that the A.C. has returned so quickly, and assumes that something must have gone wrong with the investigation. He lets the A.C. in to see Ethelred, who is still waiting aro... | [
"The Assistant Commissioner, driven rapidly in a hansom from the\nneighbourhood of Soho in the direction of Westminster, got out at the\nvery centre of the Empire on which the sun never sets. Some stalwart\nconstables, who did not seem particularly impressed by the duty of\nwatching the august spot, saluted him. ... |
2,817 | 974_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter returns to Mr. Verloc, who is standing in his shop following the departure of Chief Inspector Heat. The narrator gives us access to Mr. Verloc's thoughts, which center on how he never intended for Stevie to die. He'd thought that the worst thing that could happen is that Stevie would be arrested. He hadn't ... | [
"After Chief Inspector Heat had left him Mr Verloc moved about the\nparlour.",
"From time to time he eyed his wife through the open door. \"She knows all\nabout it now,\" he thought to himself with commiseration for her sorrow\nand with some satisfaction as regarded himself. Mr Verloc's soul, if\nlacking greatn... |
2,818 | 974_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winnie stops at the parlor door. She's run from the blood, but now that she's away from it, she fully regains her wits . She looks at her husband and realizes that he's no longer the man who murdered Stevie, just some dead guy. She realizes that there's only one murderer in the room now, and that it's her. Winnie, who'... | [
"Winnie Verloc, the widow of Mr Verloc, the sister of the late faithful\nStevie (blown to fragments in a state of innocence and in the conviction\nof being engaged in a humanitarian enterprise), did not run beyond the\ndoor of the parlour. She had indeed run away so far from a mere trickle\nof blood, but that was ... |
2,819 | 974_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens on Comrade Ossipon, who is hanging out at the apartment of the weird little maniac named The Professor. The room is shabby and gross, just like the Professors clothing and general appearance. The Professor is talking about a visit he recently made to Michaelis, who apparently knew nothing of Verloc's ... | [
"The enormous iron padlock on the doors of the wall cupboard was the only\nobject in the room on which the eye could rest without becoming afflicted\nby the miserable unloveliness of forms and the poverty of material.\nUnsaleable in the ordinary course of business on account of its noble\nproportions, it had been c... |
2,820 | 21816_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | April Fools' Day: it's sunrise on the Mississippi in St. Louis. A dude appears out of nowhere like he's some great Incan legend. Our guy boards the boat. Cue token shot of hair, duds, and doodads: dude's blonde, rocking peach fuzz only , and wearing a cream suit with white fur cap, but, umm, here's something weird: he'... | [
"CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI.",
"At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac\nat the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the\ncity of St. Louis.",
"His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur\none, with a... |
2,821 | 21816_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kicking chapter two off, we get a rapid-fire list of impressions from the crowd about our sleeping stranger. As the title of the chapter suggests, we're dealing with a plethora of ideas here, and no one seems to be of one mind. Opinions about the cream-suited man range from Poor thing to Who dis? to Keep away from him ... | [
"CHAPTER II. SHOWING THAT MANY MEN HAVE MANY MINDS.",
"\"Odd fish!\"",
"\"Poor fellow!\"",
"\"Who can he be?\"",
"\"Casper Hauser.\"",
"\"Bless my soul!\"",
"\"Uncommon countenance.\"",
"\"Green prophet from Utah.\"",
"\"Humbug!\"",
"\"Singular innocence.\"",
"\"Means something.\"",
"\"Spirit-... |
2,822 | 21816_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the front of the boat is an alms-begging black man without the use of his legs. He's got a makeshift tambourine, and he has a knack for cheering up the gruffest grumpus who might have had the misfortune of waking up on the wrong side of the bed. The narrator problematically compares him to various animals like a she... | [
"CHAPTER III. IN WHICH A VARIETY OF CHARACTERS APPEAR.",
"In the forward part of the boat, not the least attractive object, for a\ntime, was a grotesque negro cripple, in tow-cloth attire and an old\ncoal-sifter of a tamborine in his hand, who, owing to something wrong\nabout his legs, was, in effect, cut down to... |
2,823 | 21816_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a balcony on the side of the ship, there's a brief Q&A between our country merchant, apparently named Mr. Roberts, and a man dressed all in black with a long weed pinned to his hat. Weeds, as we'll fondly think of him for now, is certain that he knows Mr. Roberts, but Roberts is pretty sure he'd remember him if they... | [
"CHAPTER IV. RENEWAL OF OLD ACQUAINTANCE.",
"\"How do you do, Mr. Roberts?\"",
"\"Eh?\"",
"\"Don't you know me?\"",
"\"No, certainly.\"",
"The crowd about the captain's office, having in good time melted away,\nthe above encounter took place in one of the side balconies astern,\nbetween a man in mourning ... |
2,824 | 21816_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Not quite an "I'm king of the world!" moment, but the man with the weed in his hat is standing against the railing on the side of the boat. Just doing his own thing. At the moment, doing his own thing means indulging in the goodness of human nature. The narrator takes a minute here to contemplate the nature of showing ... | [
"CHAPTER V THE MAN WITH THE WEED MAKES IT AN EVEN QUESTION WHETHER HE BE A GREAT SAGE OR A GREAT SIMPLETON.",
"\"Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that\nis not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. Dear good man. Poor\nbeating heart!\"",
"It was the man with the weed, not v... |
2,825 | 21816_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A rich dude decked out in Ruby hues is miffed that the captain lets "begging fellows" on board. He's talking about a man in grey and white--right in front of the dude. Rude. Ruby stomps away, and an old gentleman walks by. Grey-and-white asks him if he wants to donate to the Seminole Widow and Orphan Asylum. He does no... | [
"CHAPTER VI. AT THE OUTSET OF WHICH CERTAIN PASSENGERS PROVE DEAF TO THE CALL OF CHARITY.",
"----\"You--pish! Why will the captain suffer these begging fellows on\nboard?\";",
"These pettish words were breathed by a well-to-do gentleman in a\nruby-colored velvet vest, and with a ruby-colored cheek, a ruby-heade... |
2,826 | 21816_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Grey-and-white is telling the clergyman about the history of his charity, he notices a fancy man dressed to the nines. He's got a manservant who does nearly everything for him, so he doesn't ever have to get his hands dirty. Grey-and-white pegs this guy as a generous donor and excuses himself to go get it. Fancy-... | [
"CHAPTER VII. A GENTLEMAN WITH GOLD SLEEVE-BUTTONS.",
"At an interesting point of the narration, and at the moment when, with\nmuch curiosity, indeed, urgency, the narrator was being particularly\nquestioned upon that point, he was, as it happened, altogether diverted\nboth from it and his story, by just then cat... |
2,827 | 21816_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a somber mood, Grey-and-white heads into the ladies' saloon and sits by a pleasant-looking woman--a widow--in clothes that indicate she's just coming out of mourning. She's been reading the Bible. Specifically, this lady's been reading 1 Corinthians 13. This is the uber-famous love is patient, love is kind section t... | [
"CHAPTER VIII. A CHARITABLE LADY.",
"If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in\na reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his\ngreatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of\nhis madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sani... |
2,828 | 21816_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're back outside on the railing with our college kid. A man wearing a travelling cap with a perky little tassel on top asks the kid if he's seen the man with a weed on his hat. Oh, man, has college kid seen him? Yeah. And he's none too pleased about it, either. Tassel figures Weeds must have disembarked. College kid ... | [
"CHAPTER IX. TWO BUSINESS MEN TRANSACT A LITTLE BUSINESS.",
"----\"Pray, sir, have you seen a gentleman with a weed hereabouts, rather\na saddish gentleman? Strange where he can have gone to. I was talking\nwith him not twenty minutes since.\"",
"By a brisk, ruddy-cheeked man in a tasseled traveling-cap, carryi... |
2,829 | 21816_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The cabin on the ship--unlike the one in the woods--is where you go to play cards. The room is filled with people and papers--pamphlets containing poetry, to be exact. A silent older man passed them out earlier, and then everyone just tossed them on the floor. One man is reading the ode written on them about trusting y... | [
"CHAPTER X. IN THE CABIN.",
"Stools, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans; occupying them are clusters of\nmen, old and young, wise and simple; in their hands are cards spotted\nwith diamonds, spades, clubs, hearts; the favorite games are whist,\ncribbage, and brag. Lounging in arm-chairs or sauntering among the\nmar... |
2,830 | 21816_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After their backroom deal, Mr. Roberts and Tassel chat. Looking back on the gamblers, Mr. Roberts wonders what other secret lives the ship holds. He's a curious guy. Mr. Roberts brings up a story of a dying miser he came across maybe an hour or so ago. The miser didn't want to let go of life due to his love of money an... | [
"CHAPTER XI. ONLY A PAGE OR SO.",
"The transaction concluded, the two still remained seated, falling into\nfamiliar conversation, by degrees verging into that confidential sort of\nsympathetic silence, the last refinement and luxury of unaffected good\nfeeling. A kind of social superstition, to suppose that to be... |
2,831 | 21816_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator tells the story he claims to be able to better relate than Mr. Roberts can. He describes Goneril, the wife of the "unfortunate man" . Heads up: this description is m-e-a-n. At first, Goneril's biggest flaws seem to be that she prefers lemons to peaches. She's clearly a monster. Goneril's apparently also co... | [
"CHAPTER XII. STORY OF THE UNFORTUNATE MAN, FROM WHICH MAY BE GATHERED WHETHER OR NO HE HAS BEEN JUSTLY SO ENTITLED.",
"It appeared that the unfortunate man had had for a wife one of those\nnatures, anomalously vicious, which would almost tempt a metaphysical\nlover of our species to doubt whether the human form ... |
2,832 | 21816_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We interrupt our narrator's regularly scheduled announcement with an announcement from...our narrator. He says: don't judge. Specifically, don't be like the American scholar in London who prejudged a dude for his fancy duds before he found out that the dude was also a great sage. How embarrassing. This is all to remind... | [
"CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN WITH THE TRAVELING-CAP EVINCES MUCH HUMANITY, AND IN A WAY WHICH WOULD SEEM TO SHOW HIM TO BE ONE OF THE MOST LOGICAL OF OPTIMISTS.",
"Years ago, a grave American savant, being in London, observed at an\nevening party there, a certain coxcombical fellow, as he thought, an\nabsurd ribbon in ... |
2,833 | 21816_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator has a lot to tell us, and in this chapter, the interruption is presented as direct commentary from the author. The narrator professes to be concerned with what the reader might see as inconsistency in the character of Mr. Roberts, once so trusting in his fellow man, now so doubtful. The narrator argues a f... | [
"CHAPTER XIV. WORTH THE CONSIDERATION OF THOSE TO WHOM IT MAY PROVE WORTH CONSIDERING.",
"As the last chapter was begun with a reminder looking forwards, so the\npresent must consist of one glancing backwards.",
"To some, it may raise a degree of surprise that one so full of\nconfidence, as the merchant has thr... |
2,834 | 21816_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Mr. Roberts leaves, Tassel thinks back over their conversation. He figures that even if Mr. Roberts was his intellectual inferior, Tassel might as well try to glean something useful from him to increase his own virtue and build up his character--you know--be the best Tassel he can be. Suddenly remembering somethi... | [
"CHAPTER XV. AN OLD MISER, UPON SUITABLE REPRESENTATIONS, IS PREVAILED UPON TO VENTURE AN INVESTMENT.",
"The merchant having withdrawn, the other remained seated alone for a\ntime, with the air of one who, after having conversed with some\nexcellent man, carefully ponders what fell from him, however\nintellectual... |
2,835 | 21816_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's morning, and it is glo-ri-ous. The sun is out. It's beaming its beautiful rays on the whole world and everyone in it. Everyone except that guy right over there out on the deck, that is. He looks miserable. Worse, he looks like he's on death's door. He may be. He's clearly feeble and ill. Worse still, dude's got an... | [
"CHAPTER XVI. A SICK MAN, AFTER SOME IMPATIENCE, IS INDUCED TO BECOME A PATIENT",
"The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi\nexpands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one magnified\nwake of a seventy-four. The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his\ntent, flashing h... |
2,836 | 21816_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | More people have boarded the ship. This crop of new blood is sitting in a room, kind of shy, and very quiet. We see the herb-doctor hawking another concoction. This time it's the Samaritan Pain Dissuader--good for whatever pains you--mind, body, and soul. The crowd just stares at the herb-doctor. They all seem healthy.... | [
"CHAPTER XVII. TOWARDS THE END OF WHICH THE HERB-DOCTOR PROVES HIMSELF A FORGIVER OF INJURIES.",
"In a kind of ante-cabin, a number of respectable looking people, male\nand female, way-passengers, recently come on board, are listlessly\nsitting in a mutually shy sort of silence.",
"Holding up a small, square bo... |
2,837 | 21816_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two men are discussing the herb-doctor. They disagree over whether it was fair that he was exposed as a fake. One thinks he's a clear charlatan, while the other only accuses him of being a fool. Suddenly, the herb-doctor returns, asking for the man collecting money for the Seminole Widow and Orphan Asylum . The herb-do... | [
"CHAPTER XVIII. INQUEST INTO THE TRUE CHARACTER OF THE HERB-DOCTOR.",
"\"Sha'n't see that fellow again in a hurry,\" remarked an auburn-haired\ngentleman, to his neighbor with a hook-nose. \"Never knew an operator so\ncompletely unmasked.\"",
"\"But do you think it the fair thing to unmask an operator that way?... |
2,838 | 21816_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The herb-doctor, unaware that his reputation is in question, is long gone and chatting up a man with two gnarled legs on crutches wearing a tattered soldier's uniform. He wants to know where the soldier fought and was wounded. Turns out the dude didn't fight anywhere. Instead, he happened to be witness to a murder duri... | [
"CHAPTER XIX. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.",
"\"Mexico? Molino del Rey? Resaca de la Palma?\"",
"\"Resaca de la _Tomba_!\"",
"Leaving his reputation to take care of itself, since, as is not seldom\nthe case, he knew nothing of its being in debate, the herb-doctor,\nwandering towards the forward part of the boat, had... |
2,839 | 21816_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The herb-doctor runs into the coughing miser who gave Tassel the $100. The miser is in a panic looking for Tassel. When the miser sees the herb-doctor, he realizes this is the guy Tassel had mentioned. The miser verifies his identity, and the herb-doctor is delighted to help search for Tassel--or John Thurman, as he ca... | [
"CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE OF ONE WHO MAY BE REMEMBERED.",
"The herb-doctor had not moved far away, when, in advance of him, this\nspectacle met his eye. A dried-up old man, with the stature of a boy of\ntwelve, was tottering about like one out of his mind, in rumpled clothes\nof old moleskin, showing recent conta... |
2,840 | 21816_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once the herb-doctor is gone, a man from Missouri dressed in bearskins and tough as nails mocks the miser for believing in nature, the herbs, and the herb-doctor. The men debate about the goodness of nature, with the miser saying it's just peachy and the Missourian arguing that bad weather, hardship, and poisons also c... | [
"CHAPTER XXI. A HARD CASE.",
"\"Yarbs, yarbs; natur, natur; you foolish old file you! He diddled you\nwith that hocus-pocus, did he? Yarbs and natur will cure your incurable\ncough, you think.\"",
"It was a rather eccentric-looking person who spoke; somewhat ursine in\naspect; sporting a shaggy spencer of the c... |
2,841 | 21816_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Missourian, who we learn in this chapter is called "Pitch"--if you're keeping count, that's four whole names we've got so far for this novel's cornucopia of characters--is met by a man wearing a brass plate with the initials "P.I.O." inscribed on it. It stands for Philosophical Intelligence Office, which is a count... | [
"CHAPTER XXII. IN THE POLITE SPIRIT OF THE TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS.",
"--\"'Philosophical Intelligence Office'--novel idea! But how did you come\nto dream that I wanted anything in your absurd line, eh?\"",
"About twenty minutes after leaving Cape Giradeau, the above was growled\nout over his shoulder by the Miss... |
2,842 | 21816_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Taking in the scenery of Cairo, Illinois, Pitch considers it a hotbed of disease and corruption. PIO had mentioned this was his stop. This makes Pitch associate disease and corruption with PIO. The association makes Pitch suspect that he was swindled. Pitch muses over how this occurred and thinks about PIO's threadbare... | [
"CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH THE POWERFUL EFFECT OF NATURAL SCENERY IS EVINCED IN THE CASE OF THE MISSOURIAN, WHO, IN VIEW OF THE REGION ROUND-ABOUT CAIRO, HAS A RETURN OF HIS CHILLY FIT.",
"At Cairo, the old established firm of Fever & Ague is still settling up\nits unfinished business; that Creole grave-digger, Yel... |
2,843 | 21816_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hooooo, we thought the previous chapter was full of philosophical musings. We don't know what hit us with this one, and neither does the cosmopolitan after he encounters Pitch. Pitch immediately distrusts the cosmopolitan and mocks his attire, a multi-colored mix of patterns and textures over crisp white pants. The cos... | [
"CHAPTER XXIV. A PHILANTHROPIST UNDERTAKES TO CONVERT A MISANTHROPE, BUT DOES NOT GET BEYOND CONFUTING HIM.",
"\"Hands off!\" cried the bachelor, involuntarily covering dejection with\nmoroseness.",
"\"Hands off? that sort of label won't do in our Fair. Whoever in our Fair\nhas fine feelings loves to feel the n... |
2,844 | 21816_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A guy in a bad suit with an even worse pukey violet vest speaks to the now-gloomy cosmopolitan. He comments on Pitch's misanthropy and compares him to the "Indian-hating" Colonel John Moredock of Illinois. The cosmopolitan doesn't know who that is, but he's shocked that anyone would hate Indians. He has a moment of fet... | [
"CHAPTER XXV. THE COSMOPOLITAN MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE.",
"In the act of retiring, the cosmopolitan was met by a passenger, who\nwith the bluff _abord_ of the West, thus addressed him, though a\nstranger.",
"\"Queer 'coon, your friend. Had a little skrimmage with him myself.\nRather entertaining old 'coon, if he ... |
2,845 | 21816_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new guy talks about Judge James Hall, a friend of his father, and his viewpoints on backwoodsmen and American Indians. According to Judge Hall, backwoodsmen are "Indian-haters par excellence" with a complicated history as to why. At one point, James Hall has a mock Q&A with a fictional backwoodsman and another fict... | [
"CHAPTER XXVI. CONTAINING THE METAPHYSICS OF INDIAN-HATING, ACCORDING TO THE VIEWS OF ONE EVIDENTLY NOT SO PREPOSSESSED AS ROUSSEAU IN FAVOR OF SAVAGES.",
"\"The judge always began in these words: 'The backwoodsman's hatred of\nthe Indian has been a topic for some remark. In the earlier times of the\nfrontier the... |
2,846 | 21816_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new guy moves from talk of backwoodsmen to describing the main man himself: Colonel John Moredock. Moredock's hatred has a somewhat different origin. According to the judge, his mother and eight siblings were killed by American Indians. He vowed to take revenge, killed the renegade group responsible, and then dedic... | [
"SOME ACCOUNT OF A MAN OF QUESTIONABLE MORALITY, BUT WHO, NEVERTHELESS, WOULD SEEM ENTITLED TO THE ESTEEM OF THAT EMINENT ENGLISH MORALIST WHO SAID HE LIKED A GOOD HATER.",
"\"Coming to mention the man to whose story all thus far said was but the\nintroduction, the judge, who, like you, was a great smoker, would ... |
2,847 | 21816_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Not cool. At least that's the cosmopolitan's response to the new guy's assertion at the end of the last chapter. Don't judge him, dude, he says. You don't know him. He's got a hard shell, but a heart of gold. The new guy is glad to hear it. On to more important things: the cosmopolitan thinks the story of Colonel Mored... | [
"CHAPTER XXVIII. MOOT POINTS TOUCHING THE LATE COLONEL JOHN MOREDOCK.",
"\"Charity, charity!\" exclaimed the cosmopolitan, \"never a sound judgment\nwithout charity. When man judges man, charity is less a bounty from our\nmercy than just allowance for the insensible lee-way of human\nfallibility. God forbid that ... |
2,848 | 21816_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new guy comes on super strong by asking the cosmopolitan: We're friends at first sight, right? Right? But the cosmopolitan is into it. Feeling encouraged, the new guy proposes they exchange names. We are so grateful. The cosmopolitan is Francis Goodman . New guy is Charles Arnold Noble . What conveniently friendly ... | [
"CHAPTER XXIX THE BOON COMPANIONS.",
"The wine, port, being called for, and the two seated at the little\ntable, a natural pause of convivial expectancy ensued; the stranger's\neye turned towards the bar near by, watching the red-cheeked,\nwhite-aproned man there, blithely dusting the bottle, and invitingly\narra... |
2,849 | 21816_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charlie dives right into praising the press, but it's not any old press--it's Noah's red press. Say what? Yeah, so, right about now, Charlie is dropping a somewhat obscure reference to this one moment in the Bible--specifically in Genesis 9:20-27--when Noah got tipsy, got naked, and then got sleepy. Scandalous. The cos... | [
"CHAPTER XXX. OPENING WITH A POETICAL EULOGY OF THE PRESS AND CONTINUING WITH TALK INSPIRED BY THE SAME.",
"\"'Praise be unto the press, not Faust's, but Noah's; let us extol and\nmagnify the press, the true press of Noah, from which breaketh the true\nmorning. Praise be unto the press, not the black press but th... |
2,850 | 21816_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | You need money? Charlie pushes his chair away from Frank like he's poison. Frank gives Charlie the puppy-dog eyes. Yes, I need money, and you're going to give me $50 because we're friends and you love me! Charlie flips out, jumps up, and tells Frank to go to you know where. Ouch. | [
"CHAPTER XXXI. A METAMORPHOSIS MORE SURPRISING THAN ANY IN OVID.",
"\"In want of money!\" pushing back his chair as from a suddenly-disclosed\nman-trap or crater.",
"\"Yes,\" naively assented the cosmopolitan, \"and you are going to loan me\nfifty dollars. I could almost wish I was in need of more, only for you... |
2,851 | 21816_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator describes the unexpected shift in the previous chapter as if Charlie had been transformed into a snake. He's not wrong. But the honeymoon isn't quite over yet, because something really weird happens. While Charlie is saying mean angry things to Frank, Frank takes out ten coins and places them in a circle a... | [
"CHAPTER XXXII. SHOWING THAT THE AGE OF MAGIC AND MAGICIANS IS NOT YET OVER.",
"While speaking or rather hissing those words, the boon companion\nunderwent much such a change as one reads of in fairy-books. Out of old\nmaterials sprang a new creature. Cadmus glided into the snake.",
"The cosmopolitan rose, the ... |
2,852 | 21816_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator interrupts with another meta-chapter and gives us some of his thoughts real-talk style. Look, guys--you can't have realism all the time, okay? Just back off and enjoy fiction the way you would a play. And if you think that Frank is an inconsistent character because he was so peppy when talking to Pitch but... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIII. WHICH MAY PASS FOR WHATEVER IT MAY PROVE TO BE WORTH.",
"But ere be given the rather grave story of Charlemont, a reply must in\ncivility be made to a certain voice which methinks I hear, that, in view\nof past chapters, and more particularly the last, where certain antics\nappear, exclaims: How ... |
2,853 | 21816_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charlemont was young. He was French. He was well-off. He was cool. Everybody loved Charlemont, and Charlemont loved everybody. Then one day something happened. Nobody knows what happened, but all of a sudden, out of the blue, without warning, Charlemont...stopped...loving...people. Oh, no. Charlemont ditched all his ca... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN TELLS THE STORY OF THE GENTLEMAN MADMAN.",
"\"Charlemont was a young merchant of French descent, living in St.\nLouis--a man not deficient in mind, and possessed of that sterling and\ncaptivating kindliness, seldom in perfection seen but in youthful\nbachelors, united at ... |
2,854 | 21816_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charlie: Is this a true story? Frank: Nope. It's a good one, though. Makes you wonder about people's souls. For instance, would you abandon a friend who needed money? Charlie: That's a mean gross question because it assumes I might be a mean gross person. I'm not mean or gross. I have a headache from the wine and want ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN STRIKINGLY EVINCES THE ARTLESSNESS OF HIS NATURE.",
"\"Well, what do you think of the story of Charlemont?\" mildly asked he\nwho had told it.",
"\"A very strange one,\" answered the auditor, who had been such not with\nperfect ease, \"but is it true?\"",
"\"Of course ... |
2,855 | 21816_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Charlie heads out, a man who we'll just call the Puritan for now sidles up to Frank and goes, I don't trust that guy. Frank isn't into the trash-talking, but he invites the Puritan to finish up the wine with him. The Puritan accepts and looks Frank over. He tells Frank he is beautiful and must also have a beautif... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVI. IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN IS ACCOSTED BY A MYSTIC, WHEREUPON ENSUES PRETTY MUCH SUCH TALK AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED.",
"As, not without some haste, the boon companion withdrew, a stranger\nadvanced, and touching the cosmopolitan, said: \"I think I heard you say\nyou would see that man again. Be warned;... |
2,856 | 21816_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Puritan swaps subjects and taps in a new conversation partner. The Puritan calls over Egbert, a thirty-something businessman who doesn't seem like the type to be travelling with the Puritan. The Puritan, who we now learn is named Mark Winsome, is heading out, but Egbert is his disciple. Oh, yeah--turns out Winsome ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVII THE MYSTICAL MASTER INTRODUCES THE PRACTICAL DISCIPLE.",
"\"Both, the subject and the interlocutor,\" replied the stranger rising,\nand waiting the return towards him of a promenader, that moment turning\nat the further end of his walk.",
"\"Egbert!\" said he, calling.",
"Egbert, a well-dresse... |
2,857 | 21816_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once Winsome is gone, Egbert looks less like a lost puppy and more like he's got his life together. Egbert confidently sits down at the table, praises Winsome, and asks if Frank thinks he's great, too. Frank does a little fancy footwork in getting away with not saying that Winsome is the best thing since sliced bread. ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DISCIPLE UNBENDS, AND CONSENTS TO ACT A SOCIAL PART.",
"In the master's presence the disciple had stood as one not ignorant of\nhis place; modesty was in his expression, with a sort of reverential\ndepression. But the presence of the superior withdrawn, he seemed\nlithely to shoot up erect f... |
2,858 | 21816_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank: Can I put my confidence in you? Egbert : Totes. Frank: I can has $100 now? Egbert: No. If I gave you monies as a freebie that's like giving to the poor, which would make us not equals. If we couldn't be on the same footing, we wouldn't be heart-mind friends. Frank: I'll pay you back. Egbert: Nah. I don't loan to... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIX. THE HYPOTHETICAL FRIENDS.",
"\"Charlie, I am going to put confidence in you.\"",
"\"You always have, and with reason. What is it Frank?\"",
"\"Charlie, I am in want--urgent want of money.\"",
"\"That's not well.\"",
"\"But it _will_ be well, Charlie, if you loan me a hundred dollars. I\nwo... |
2,859 | 21816_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | China Aster is a poor candle maker. China's formerly poor friend Orchis is a shoemaker who won the lottery. Orchis forces China to accept a check for $1,000 to invest in a different kind of candle material. China thinks this is a bad idea. His dad's old friends, nicknamed Plain Talk and Old Prudence, think this is a ba... | [
"CHAPTER XL. IN WHICH THE STORY OF CHINA ASTER IS AT SECOND-HAND TOLD BY ONE WHO, WHILE NOT DISAPPROVING THE MORAL, DISCLAIMS THE SPIRIT OF THE STYLE.",
"\"China Aster was a young candle-maker of Marietta, at the mouth of the\nMuskingum--one whose trade would seem a kind of subordinate branch of\nthat parent craf... |
2,860 | 21816_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tale does not sit well with Frank, and he erupts at Egbert-as-Charlie. He argues that this story undermines one's confidence in one's fellow man. Confidence? "Charlie" is startled. This isn't about confidence; it's about the folly of lending to friends. "Charlie" reiterates that giving a loan to a friend ends the f... | [
"CHAPTER XLI. ENDING WITH A RUPTURE OF THE HYPOTHESIS.",
"\"With what heart,\" cried Frank, still in character, \"have you told me\nthis story? A story I can no way approve; for its moral, if accepted,\nwould drain me of all reliance upon my last stay, and, therefore, of my\nlast courage in life. For, what was th... |
2,861 | 21816_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank the cosmopolitan enters a barber shop. He greets the barber with a cheery "Bless you!" The barber has been dozing off and dreaming, so at first he thinks that Frank is an angel or other kind of spirit. Frank's like, Um, what's your deal? Then the barber turns around and sees a real human and is a little bummed, b... | [
"CHAPTER XLII. UPON THE HEEL OF THE LAST SCENE THE COSMOPOLITAN ENTERS THE BARBER'S SHOP, A BENEDICTION ON HIS LIPS.",
"\"Bless you, barber!\"",
"Now, owing to the lateness of the hour, the barber had been all alone\nuntil within the ten minutes last passed; when, finding himself rather\ndullish company to hims... |
2,862 | 21816_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The conversation and shave continue. The barber doesn't want to distrust people, but his line of work has taught him to. Frank counters that lawyers, politicians, and editors all argue the same. He wonders how everyone thinks their particular field is the one to provide insights into human nature. The barber has been t... | [
"CHAPTER XLIII VERY CHARMING.",
"\"So you are a philanthropist, sir,\" added the barber with an illuminated\nlook; \"that accounts, then, for all. Very odd sort of man the\nphilanthropist. You are the second one, sir, I have seen. Very odd sort\nof man, indeed, the philanthropist. Ah, sir,\" again meditatively\ns... |
2,863 | 21816_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Melville loves these meta-moments. This chapter suggests that the only folks who think of anyone as "quite an original" are babies, the uneducated, or people who don't get out and travel. That is, they have no experience of the world and others. There are few originals in literature, and the narrator lists some: Hamlet... | [
"CHAPTER XLIV. IN WHICH THE LAST THREE WORDS OF THE LAST CHAPTER ARE MADE THE TEXT OF DISCOURSE, WHICH WILL BE SURE OF RECEIVING MORE OR LESS ATTENTION FROM THOSE READERS WHO DO NOT SKIP IT.",
"\"Quite an original:\" A phrase, we fancy, rather oftener used by the\nyoung, or the unlearned, or the untraveled, than ... |
2,864 | 21816_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the cabin rooms, there's only one lamp still burning. The steward has told people not to let it go out until daylight for safety--you could trip; people could try to rob or kill you; you know, the usual. The lamp's design is a death metal band cover knock-off of a glowing horned altar surrounded by flames with a dar... | [
"CHAPTER XLV. THE COSMOPOLITAN INCREASES IN SERIOUSNESS.",
"In the middle of the gentleman's cabin burned a solar lamp, swung from\nthe ceiling, and whose shade of ground glass was all round fancifully\nvariegated, in transparency, with the image of a horned altar, from\nwhich flames rose, alternate with the figu... |
2,865 | 580_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On May 12, 1827, the Pickwick Club of London listens to Mr. Pickwick's paper, "Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats." In order to extend the field of Mr. Pickwick's knowledge, the club votes for a traveling society that will consist of Samuel Pickwick, Tr... | [
"The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a\ndazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the\npublic career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is\nderived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of\nthe Pickwick Club, which the... |
2,866 | 580_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Pickwick rises at dawn in an exuberant mood and prepares for his first trip. While riding in a horse-drawn cab to meet his friends he takes notes on the cab-driver's fabrications about the horse. The cabbie thinks Mr. Pickwick is an informer, and on reaching the destination he rapidly strikes all the Pickwickians a... | [
"That punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath. Gosw... |
2,867 | 580_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Pickwick rises early and walks to Rochester Bridge, where he meets "Dismal Jemmy" contemplating suicide, or so he says. Jemmy promises to send Mr. Pickwick a manuscript, and Pickwick returns to eat breakfast and prepare for the visit to Wardle's farm. The Pickwickians obtain a chaise, but the inexperienced Winkle m... | [
"Bright and pleasant was the sky, balmy the air, and beautiful the\nappearance of every object around, as Mr. Pickwick leaned over the\nbalustrades of Rochester Bridge, contemplating nature, and waiting for\nbreakfast. The scene was indeed one which might well have charmed a far\nless reflective mind, than that to ... |
2,868 | 580_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Left at Wardle's, Tupman takes Rachael to a bower and declares his love for her. He is seen kissing her by Joe the Fat Boy. Late that night Wardle and the rest come home from the cricket match hopelessly intoxicated, bringing Jingle with them. Jingle, with his appearance of sobriety, makes a favorable impression on the... | [
"The quiet seclusion of Dingley Dell, the presence of so many of the\ngentler sex, and the solicitude and anxiety they evinced in his behalf,\nwere all favourable to the growth and development of those softer\nfeelings which nature had implanted deep in the bosom of Mr. Tracy\nTupman, and which now appeared destine... |
2,869 | 580_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On returning to Manor Farm, Mr. Pickwick learns that Tupman has left, intending to commit suicide in a fit of romantic despair. The Pickwickians take their leave of the Wardles and hurry after Tupman, whom they find in Cobham enjoying a hearty meal. Things are patched up, and Mr. Pickwick tells his friends that they wi... | [
"A night of quiet and repose in the profound silence of Dingley Dell, and\nan hour's breathing of its fresh and fragrant air on the ensuing\nmorning, completely recovered Mr. Pickwick from the effects of his late\nfatigue of body and anxiety of mind. That illustrious man had been\nseparated from his friends and fol... |
2,870 | 580_chapters_13-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Eatanswill, a noisy, contentious election is taking place between the Blues and the Buffs. Each party does its utmost to frustrate and harass the opposition. The Pickwickians arrive in the middle of a shouting contest between a mob of Blues and a mob of Buffs, and Mr. Pickwick tells his companions to yell with the l... | [
"We will frankly acknowledge that, up to the period of our being first\nimmersed in the voluminous papers of the Pickwick Club, we had never\nheard of Eatanswill; we will with equal candour admit that we have in\nvain searched for proof of the actual existence of such a place at the\npresent day. Knowing the deep r... |
2,871 | 580_chapters_15-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Still at Eatanswill, the Pickwickians are invited to a costume breakfast by Mrs. Leo Hunter, a wretched poetess who seeks celebrated acquaintances and who sends her husband as an errand-boy. Mr. Pickwick gets furious when Tupman says he plans to dress, inappropriately, as a bandit. But the quarrel is smoothed over, and... | [
"Mr. Pickwick's conscience had been somewhat reproaching him for his\nrecent neglect of his friends at the Peacock; and he was just on the\npoint of walking forth in quest of them, on the third morning after the\nelection had terminated, when his faithful valet put into his hand a\ncard, on which was engraved the f... |
2,872 | 580_chapters_18-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winkle, who has stayed on for a few days with the Potts, is confronted one morning with a raging Mr. Pott. A poem has appeared in the opposition paper that accuses Winkle of cuckolding Mr. Pott. Mrs. Pott throws a hysterical fit and pressures her husband into thrashing the editor, Mr. Slurk. Under the circumstances Win... | [
"For two days after the _dejeune _at Mrs. Hunter's, the Pickwickians\nremained at Eatanswill, anxiously awaiting the arrival of some\nintelligence from their revered leader. Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass\nwere once again left to their own means of amusement; for Mr. Winkle, in\ncompliance with a most pressing invita... |
2,873 | 580_chapters_20-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having arrived in London, Mr. Pickwick goes to Dodson and Fogg's office. While waiting, he and Sam overhear the clerks' talk about Fogg and his underhanded practices. On obtaining an interview with the two lawyers, Mr. Pickwick learns to his indignation that the damages are set at 1,500 pounds, and he obtains a copy of... | [
"In the ground-floor front of a dingy house, at the very farthest end of\nFreeman's Court, Cornhill, sat the four clerks of Messrs. Dodson & Fogg,\ntwo of his Majesty's attorneys of the courts of King's Bench and Common\nPleas at Westminster, and solicitors of the High Court of Chancery--the\naforesaid clerks catch... |
2,874 | 580_chapters_22-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While loading the coach to Ipswich, Mr. Weller tells Sam about the unsavory evangelist with whom his wife had taken up. Mr. Pickwick arrives and gets into conversation with a prissy, conceited man named Peter Magnus, who is also going to Ipswich. When the journey is over, Pickwick and Magnus register at a large inn, an... | [
"That 'ere your governor's luggage, Sammy?' inquired Mr. Weller of his\naffectionate son, as he entered the yard of the Bull Inn, Whitechapel,\nwith a travelling-bag and a small portmanteau.",
"'You might ha' made a worser guess than that, old feller,' replied Mr.\nWeller the younger, setting down his burden in t... |
2,875 | 580_chapters_26-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Pickwick makes arrangements to move out of Mrs. Bardell's house and into a hotel. He sends Sam Weller to pay the rent, give a month's notice, and see about having his possessions moved. Sam is also supposed to find out what is taking place with regard to the lawsuit. Sam's arrival throws Mrs. Bardell and two visiti... | [
"Having accomplished the main end and object of his journey, by the\nexposure of Jingle, Mr. Pickwick resolved on immediately returning to\nLondon, with the view of becoming acquainted with the proceedings which\nhad been taken against him, in the meantime, by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg.\nActing upon this resolution w... |
2,876 | 580_chapters_28-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a holiday mood, the Pickwickians take the coach to Muggleton, a ride everyone enjoys. They are met by Joe the Fat Boy, and from Muggleton they walk to the Wardle farm, where they are given a hearty reception. The Wardles are visited by several young women, friends of the Wardle girls, who have come to see Isabella m... | [
"As brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did the four\nPickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day of\nDecember, in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully-recorded\nadventures, were undertaken and accomplished. Christmas was close at\nhand, in all his bluff and hearty ... |
2,877 | 580_chapters_31-33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening in January, Dodson and Fogg's clerk, Mr. Jackson, barges into Mr. Pickwick's hotel room, tells him the trial will be held on February 14, and serves Tupman, Snodgrass, Winkle, and Sam with subpoenas to appear as witnesses for Mrs. Bardell. Mr. Pickwick then goes to see his lawyer, Mr. Perker, and learns tha... | [
"Scattered about, in various holes and corners of the Temple, are certain\ndark and dirty chambers, in and out of which, all the morning in\nvacation, and half the evening too in term time, there may be seen\nconstantly hurrying with bundles of papers under their arms, and\nprotruding from their pockets, an almost ... |
2,878 | 580_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Snodgrass and Mr. Perker hope that the jurymen have had a good breakfast, which means that they would be more likely to decide in favor of the defendant. At Guildhall, where the trial takes place, the Pickwickians, the lawyers, the spectators and the plaintiff are seated. Mrs. Bardell and her companions put on a little... | [
"I wonder what the foreman of the jury, whoever he'll be, has got for\nbreakfast,' said Mr. Snodgrass, by way of keeping up a conversation on\nthe eventful morning of the fourteenth of February.",
"'Ah!' said Perker, 'I hope he's got a good one.'",
"Why so?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.",
"'Highly important--very i... |
2,879 | 580_chapters_35-37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Pickwick remains adamant in his refusal to pay damages. On learning that it will be two months before he can be imprisoned, he decides to take his companions to Bath. He is accompanied by the Dowlers and listens to Captain Dowler advertise his own ferocity. At Bath the Pickwickians meet Angelo Cyrus Bantam, the mas... | [
"But surely, my dear sir,' said little Perker, as he stood in Mr.\nPickwick's apartment on the morning after the trial, 'surely you don't\nreally mean--really and seriously now, and irritation apart--that you\nwon't pay these costs and damages?'",
"'Not one halfpenny,' said Mr. Pickwick firmly; 'not one halfpenny... |
2,880 | 580_chapters_38-39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Bristol, Winkle looks for directions and goes into a physician's shop, where he finds Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen. Sawyer tells Winkle the tricks he uses to get business, although he has no wares and few patients. Over brandy Ben Allen tells Winkle that Arabella is in the area, where she has been hidden to protect her ... | [
"The ill-starred gentleman who had been the unfortunate cause of the\nunusual noise and disturbance which alarmed the inhabitants of the Royal\nCrescent in manner and form already described, after passing a night of\ngreat confusion and anxiety, left the roof beneath which his friends\nstill slumbered, bound he kne... |
2,881 | 580_chapters_40-41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When his two-months' stay in Bath is finished, Mr. Pickwick returns to London. Three days later he is taken into custody by a rough, ostentatious sheriff and his helper. Sam Weller puts up a fight but is restrained by Mr. Pickwick. At the sheriff's office, Pickwick observes two young dissolutes. Mr. Perker arrives and ... | [
"The remainder of the period which Mr. Pickwick had assigned as the\nduration of the stay at Bath passed over without the occurrence of\nanything material. Trinity term commenced. On the expiration of its\nfirst week, Mr. Pickwick and his friends returned to London; and the\nformer gentleman, attended of course by ... |
2,882 | 580_chapters_42-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sam arrives with Mr. Pickwick's wardrobe the next morning and is about to come to blows with Smangle, when Smangle sees the clothes and craftily tries to obtain some. Determined to change rooms, Mr. Pickwick goes to see Tom Roker, who assigns him to a room with three dirty, sloppy ruffians. Mr. Pickwick learns from the... | [
"When Mr. Pickwick opened his eyes next morning, the first object upon\nwhich they rested was Samuel Weller, seated upon a small black\nportmanteau, intently regarding, apparently in a condition of profound\nabstraction, the stately figure of the dashing Mr. Smangle; while Mr.\nSmangle himself, who was already part... |
2,883 | 580_chapters_46-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The vixenish Mrs. Raddle, her browbeaten husband, and Mrs. Cluppins arrive at Mrs. Bardell's to go for an outing. Mrs. Bardell and her son and her group of friends take the coach to Hampstead, where they take tea. And poor Mr. Raddle is badgered all the way. As they dine, Mr. Jackson of Dodson and Fogg's comes to take ... | [
"It was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney\ncabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up\nGoswell Street; three people were squeezed into it besides the driver,\nwho sat in his own particular little dickey at the side; over the apron\nwere hung two shawls, belong... |
2,884 | 580_chapters_48-51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen are in their Bristol shop discussing their prospects. They have clients but very few can pay. The best thing would be for Bob to marry Arabella and use her 1,000 pounds, except that Arabella has no liking for Bob. As they talk of the revenge they would take on another suitor, Ben Allen's aunt e... | [
"Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer sat together in the little surgery\nbehind the shop, discussing minced veal and future prospects, when the\ndiscourse, not unnaturally, turned upon the practice acquired by Bob the\naforesaid, and his present chances of deriving a competent independence\nfrom the honourable profess... |
2,885 | 580_chapters_52-54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in London, Sam's sweetheart, Mary, who has become the Winkles' maid, tells Sam that there is a letter for him. After kissing and flirting with Mary, Sam reads that his stepmother has died and that Tony wants him to visit. Sam takes a leave of absence from Mr. Pickwick and goes to Dorking, where he finds his father... | [
"Considering it a matter of delicacy to abstain from introducing either\nBob Sawyer or Ben Allen to the young couple, until they were fully\nprepared to expect them, and wishing to spare Arabella's feelings as\nmuch as possible, Mr. Pickwick proposed that he and Sam should alight in\nthe neighbourhood of the George... |
2,886 | 580_chapters_55-56 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tony Weller finds the will his wife made out, in which she gives 200 pounds to Sam and the rest to Tony. Sam tells his father that the will must be probated before they can come into their inheritance. So the two men go to see Solomon Pell, taking a group of coachmen along to umpire. The legal formalities take about a ... | [
"Samivel,' said Mr. Weller, accosting his son on the morning after the\nfuneral, 'I've found it, Sammy. I thought it wos there.'",
"'Thought wot wos there?' inquired Sam.",
"'Your mother-in-law's vill, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller. 'In wirtue o'\nvich, them arrangements is to be made as I told you on, last night,... |
2,887 | 580_chapter_57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a week of mysterious trips Mr. Pickwick announces to his friends that he is settling down for good in a newly purchased and furnished home at Dulwich. The Pickwick Club has disbanded. And he tells everyone that the wedding of Snodgrass and Emily Wardle will take place in his new home. Preparations are made, and t... | [
"For a whole week after the happy arrival of Mr. Winkle from Birmingham,\nMr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were from home all day long, only returning\njust in time for dinner, and then wearing an air of mystery and\nimportance quite foreign to their natures. It was evident that very\ngrave and eventful proceedings were... |
2,888 | 1900_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet our narrator Tommo, an American sailor who has been at sea for six months. He describes his vessel and his bleak longing for solid land. On the ship there is one poor rooster left in the hen house, the hens having been killed for food earlier in the voyage. Tommo declares that, as long as the rooster is alive, ... | [
"Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of\nland; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the\nLine, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific--the sky\nabove, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh\nprovisions were all exhausted. ... |
2,889 | 1900_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the ship is headed for land, Tommo feels happy and relieved. He lazes around with nothing much to do. Tommo describes the beauty of the water and sea, and how the silence disappears as they advance closer to land and hear the call of birds. As the Marquesas come into view, Tommo talks about their general layou... | [
"I CAN never forget the eighteen or twenty days during which the light\ntrade-winds were silently sweeping us towards the islands. In pursuit of\nthe sperm whale, we had been cruising on the line some twenty degrees\nto the westward of the Gallipagos; and all that we had to do, when our\ncourse was determined on, w... |
2,890 | 1900_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By the time of this story, in the summer of 1842, the French have already occupied the islands for a few weeks. The seeming strangeness of the native culture is immediately blotted out once the sailors arrive at the beach of Nukuheva, where there are more than 100 French soldiers who have set up a very European settlem... | [
"IT was in the summer of 1842 that we arrived at the islands; the French\nhad then held possession of them for several weeks. During this time\nthey had visited some of the principal places in the group, and had\ndisembarked at various points about five hundred troops. These were\nemployed in constructing works of ... |
2,891 | 1900_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Not many days after the ship has landed at Nukuheva, Tommo decides he can't take any more time at sea. He makes his mind up to desert the crew. He had volunteered to sail for a particular amount of time under particular conditions, but it's turned out Captain Vangs is a domineering jerk. There was a ship called The Per... | [
"OUR ship had not been many days in the harbour of Nukuheva before I came\nto the determination of leaving her. That my reasons for resolving to\ntake this step were numerous and weighty, may be inferred from the fact\nthat I chose rather to risk my fortunes among the savages of the island\nthan to endure another v... |
2,892 | 1900_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Tommo's decided he'll escape his post on the ship, he begins to make preparations. He decides that, if he can get to the mountains and stay with the kind Happars, he can watch his ship sail off, then return to the coast and catch a ride on a different boat home. All he needs to do is avoid those fearsome Typee... | [
"HAVING fully resolved to leave the vessel clandestinely, and having\nacquired all the knowledge concerning the bay that I could obtain under\nthe circumstances in which I was placed, I now deliberately turned over\nin my mind every plan to escape that suggested itself, being determined\nto act with all possible pr... |
2,893 | 1900_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Captain Vangs declares that the sailors, having been at sea for a solid six months, now deserve a day's shore leave. This is Tommo and Toby's chance to escape. In all the hubbub, the two sailors prepare. Tommo grabs a couple of biscuits, jerky, some tobacco, and a few yards of cloth for trading, and stuffs them inside ... | [
"EARLY the next morning the starboard watch were mustered upon the\nquarter-deck, and our worthy captain, standing in the cabin gangway,\nharangued us as follows:--",
"'Now, men, as we are just off a six months' cruise, and have got through\nmost all our work in port here, I suppose you want to go ashore. Well, I... |
2,894 | 1900_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Though before it had seemed as if the valley-living tribe was close, Tommo and Toby see now that the mountain is broken into a series of ridges, and that they'll have to go up and down and up and down at near-vertical angles in order to make progress. Worse, the food supply is small. They had planned on encountering fr... | [
"MY curiosity had been not a little raised with regard to the description\nof country we should meet on the other side of the mountains; and I had\nsupposed, with Toby, that immediately on gaining the heights we should\nbe enabled to view the large bays of Happar and Typee reposing at our\nfeet on one side, in the ... |
2,895 | 1900_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo wakes up Toby to tell him about the valley he's seen. They try to figure out whether it's Happar or Typee , but they realize there's no way to do so. Running out of food, and with Tommo's bum leg, they pretty much have to make for the valley. They make slow progress up and down each gorge, using canes and roots t... | [
"RECOVERING from my astonishment at the beautiful scene before me, I\nquickly awakened Toby, and informed him of the discovery I had made.\nTogether we now repaired to the border of the precipice, and my\ncompanion's admiration was equal to my own. A little reflection,\nhowever, abated our surprise at coming so une... |
2,896 | 1900_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | To get to the valley, Tommo and Toby must go down another ravine and spend all day doing so. It's hard going, and they camp for the night. It's been four days since they left the ship. The next day, they continue down the ravine, only to encounter an abyss with a hundred-foot drop. Despairing, Tommo believes it's impos... | [
"The fearless confidence of Toby was contagious, and I began to adopt the\nHappar side of the question. I could not, however, overcome a certain\nfeeling of trepidation as we made our way along these gloomy solitudes.\nOur progress, at first comparatively easy, became more and more\ndifficult. The bed of the waterc... |
2,897 | 1900_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nearly starved, food is the first thing on Toby and Tommo's minds. A close second, however, is whether they're about to walk into Happar or Typee territory. Toby thinks they should follow the stream further down into the valley, find some fruit trees, and eat up and rest before continuing. Tommo disagrees, basically sa... | [
"HOW to obtain the fruit which we felt convinced must grow near at hand\nwas our first thought.",
"Typee or Happar? A frightful death at the hands of the fiercest of\ncannibals, or a kindly reception from a gentler race of savages? Which?\nBut it was too late now to discuss a question which would so soon be\nansw... |
2,898 | 1900_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Finding it difficult to sleep because of his leg injury, Tommo is anxious, thinking about what it means to be staying with the Typee In the morning, the house fills with young women, gathering around Tommo and Toby, offering them food and getting a little too close for Tommo's comfort. Next comes a warrior in full fine... | [
"VARIOUS and conflicting were the thoughts which oppressed me during the\nsilent hours that followed the events related in the preceding chapter. Toby, wearied with the fatigues of the day, slumbered heavily by my\nside; but the pain under which I was suffering effectually prevented\nmy sleeping, and I remained dis... |
2,899 | 1900_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kory-Kory brings Tommo and Toby a meal, and then he convinces Tommo to sleep. In the morning, Tommo wakes to find Kory-Kory on one side of him and Toby on the other. All feel refreshed, and Kory-Kory leads the two men to the stream so that they may bathe. Afterward, Mehevi visits once again, inviting Tommo and Toby to ... | [
"WHEN Mehevi had departed from the house, as related in the preceding\nchapter, Kory-Kory commenced the functions of the post assigned him.\nHe brought out, various kinds of food; and, as if I were an infant,\ninsisted upon feeding me with his own hands. To this procedure I, of\ncourse, most earnestly objected, but... |
2,900 | 1900_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As time goes on, Tommo and Toby must sit with the discomfort that, no matter how welcoming the Typee are, they still might be cannibals. Tommo's leg is getting worse, and it's clear that they'll have to go for help to procure some western medicine. He asks Toby if he'll go for help in Nukuheva, perhaps coming back by b... | [
"AMIDST these novel scenes a week passed away almost imperceptibly. The\nnatives, actuated by some mysterious impulse, day after day redoubled\ntheir attentions to us. Their manner towards us was unaccountable.\nSurely, thought I, they would not act thus if they meant us any harm.\nBut why this excess of deferentia... |
2,901 | 1900_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Toby's head wound heals over the next few days, Tommo's leg gets even worse. He's mostly restricted to laying on the mat in Marheyo and Tinor's crib. Outside, the villagers cry "botee! botee!" and Tommo watches women and men and children harvesting and carrying fruits in baskets to the shore, to an arriving boat.... | [
"IN the course of a few days Toby had recovered from the effects of\nhis adventure with the Happar warriors; the wound on his head rapidly\nhealing under the vegetable treatment of the good Tinor. Less fortunate\nthan my companion however, I still continued to languish under a\ncomplaint, the origin and nature of w... |
2,902 | 1900_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Typee, particularly Marheyo's household, continues to take good care of Tommo, cooking him all sorts of delicacies from seaweed salad to breadfruit in every incarnation. Tommo takes time to describe the breadfruit, coconut, and other local flora, and their preparations. | [
"ALL the inhabitants of the valley treated me with great kindness; but as\nto the household of Marheyo, with whom I was now permanently domiciled,\nnothing could surpass their efforts to minister to my comfort. To the\ngratification of my palate they paid the most unwearied attention.\nThey continually invited me t... |
2,903 | 1900_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though Tommo is experiencing kindness at the hands of the Typee, he's still suspicious over Toby's disappearance and the idea that these people may be cannibals. More pressing is the condition of Tommo's leg, which isn't getting better at all. One day, as Tommo is resting in the Ti with Mehevi, he hears that there... | [
"IN looking back to this period, and calling to remembrance the\nnumberless proofs of kindness and respect which I received from the\nnatives of the valley, I can scarcely understand how it was that, in the\nmidst of so many consolatory circumstances, my mind should still have\nbeen consumed by the most dismal fore... |
2,904 | 1900_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo begins to lose track of time in the village, but while days pass his leg seems to finally heal. With this improvement comes a new clarity in his brain. The narrator takes some time here to offer a discussion of Christianity and "the savage": Tommo mentions that, with European and American corporal punishment, we ... | [
"DAY after day wore on, and still there was no perceptible change in the\nconduct of the islanders towards me. Gradually I lost all knowledge of\nthe regular recurrence of the days of the week, and sunk insensibly into\nthat kind of apathy which ensues after some violent outburst of despair.\nMy limb suddenly heale... |
2,905 | 1900_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Tommo is feeling much better, he's able to walk around. He swims regularly with Fayaway and the other young girls in a nearby lake. Tommo asks Kory-Kory to bring a boat to the lake, but learns that it is taboo. The girls may not swim while it is in the water. Tommo implores Kory-Kory to break the taboo, and af... | [
"RETURNING health and peace of mind gave a new interest to everything\naround me. I sought to diversify my time by as many enjoyments as lay\nwithin my reach. Bathing in company with troops of girls formed one of\nmy chief amusements. We sometimes enjoyed the recreation in the waters\nof a miniature lake, to which ... |
2,906 | 1900_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As time goes, Tommo remains confused as to why the Typee want to keep him in the valley. It has been two months, he calculates, since he has arrived. Tommo shows a Typee kid how to make a little pop gun from a piece of bamboo, and for ten days hence, the village is consumed with the joy of projectiles. Tommo gives Marh... | [
"THE knowledge I had now obtained as to the intention of the savages\ndeeply affected me.",
"Marnoo, I perceived, was a man who, by reason of his superior\nacquirements, and the knowledge he possessed of the events which were\ntaking place in the different bays of the island, was held in no little\nestimation by ... |
2,907 | 1900_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo, understanding that in the valley most days are like every other day, explains his daily schedule: He wakes after sunrise, then bathes with Fayaway and Kory-Kory while Tinor and Marheyo take half an hour to build the day's fire. Then they eat a morning meal and smoke a pipe. Post-breakfast there are naps or minor... | [
"NOTHING can be more uniform and undiversified than the life of the\nTypees; one tranquil day of ease and happiness follows another in quiet\nsuccession; and with these unsophisicated savages the history of a\nday is the history of a life. I will, therefore, as briefly as I can,\ndescribe one of our days in the val... |
2,908 | 1900_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo explains a mineral spring outside the village called "arva wai," or, strong water. The water tastes, he says, like a bunch of different terrible things all in one, but the Typee seem to use it as a sort of medicine. Coming back from the spring one day, Tommo discovers a large rock terrace set into the side of a h... | [
"ALMOST every country has its medicinal springs famed for their healing\nvirtues. The Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude,\nand but seldom receives a visitor. It is situated remote from any\ndwelling, a little way up the mountain, near the head of the valley; and\nyou approach it by a pathway s... |
2,909 | 1900_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since Tommo's leg has healed, he's been making daily visits to Mehevi at the Ti, to eat, chill out, and be served in this no-girls-allowed center of power for the village. Each day Tommo enjoys being served, he enjoys the camaraderie of the men around him. One day, however, there are great preparations being made for a... | [
"FROM the time that my lameness had decreased I had made a daily practice\nof visiting Mehevi at the Ti, who invariably gave me a most cordial\nreception. I was always accompanied in these excursions by Fayaway\nand the ever-present Kory-Kory. The former, as soon as we reached the\nvicinity of the Ti--which was rig... |
2,910 | 1900_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For the festival, everyone converges in front of the Ti, dancing and exclaiming happily. A feast is laid out for all, and the Typee drape themselves around, eating and smoking and celebrating. Here, Tommo explains a native root called "arva," which is used as a stimulant. Both Mehevi and Kory-Kory present Tommo special... | [
"THE whole population of the valley seemed to be gathered within the\nprecincts of the grove. In the distance could be seen the long front of\nthe Ti, its immense piazza swarming with men, arrayed in every variety\nof fantastic costume, and all vociferating with animated gestures; while\nthe whole interval between ... |
2,911 | 1900_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The festival gets Tommo thinking about religion, that the Typee practices hardly seem as terrible as the Western descriptions he's read of immolated bodies and the like. Tommo wonders whether a single inventive native person could author and perpetuate stories un-reflective of tribal life. As far as he is concerned, th... | [
"ALTHOUGH I had been baffled in my attempts to learn the origin of\nthe Feast of Calabashes, yet it seemed very plain to me that it was\nprincipally, if not wholly, of a religious character. As a religious\nsolemnity, however, it had not at all corresponded with the horrible\ndescriptions of Polynesian worship whic... |
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