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3,039 | 12122_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Whites bury Herbert in a cemetery two miles from their house. Their home is now a dark and lonely place. The Whites feel like they are waiting for something to happen to help them with their sadness. One night, about a week later, Mrs. White remembers the monkey's paw. She wants Mr. White to wish Herbert back to li... | [
"In the huge new cemetery, some two miles distant, the old people buried\ntheir dead, and came back to a house steeped in shadow and silence. It\nwas all over so quickly that at first they could hardly realize it, and\nremained in a state of expectation as though of something else to happen\n--something else which... |
3,040 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meet the St. Auberts. They're no Brady Bunch: Monsieur St. Aubert, Madame St. Aubert, and their beloved daughter Emily live at a chateau called La Vallee on the banks of the Garonne. Life is rough. Well, actually, it gets pretty rough after M. St. Aubert comes down with a bad fever. He's still weak but recovering when ... | [
"VOLUME 1 CHAPTER I",
"home is the resort\n Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where,\n Supporting and supported, polish'd friends\n And dear relations mingle into bliss.*\n *Thomson",
"On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood,\nin the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St... |
3,041 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame St. Aubert gets a funeral and M. St. Aubert is taking it pretty hard. He shuts himself up in his room for a little bit, but emerges in time to tell Emily to cheer up, Charlie. M. Barreaux comes to offer his condolences to the family, like a good neighbor. St. Aubert's sister, Madame Cheron, also makes a brief vi... | [
"CHAPTER II",
"I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word\n Would harrow up thy soul.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"Madame St. Aubert was interred in the neighbouring village church; her\nhusband and daughter attended her to the grave, followed by a long train\nof the peasantry, who were sincere mourners of this excelle... |
3,042 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | St. Aubert and Emily take off on a winding road to Languedoc after saying goodbye to their good buddy Barreaux. Alrighty, get ready for some detailed descriptions of the landscape. Emily can't get over how pretty the forest and mountains are, and everything is glorious, and did we mention she's a major hippie-child? Bu... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"O how canst thou renounce the boundless store\n Of charms which nature to her vot'ry yields!\n The warbling woodland, the resounding shore,\n The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields;\n All that the genial ray of morning gilds,\n And all that echoes to the song of even;\n All that the mountain'... |
3,043 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Time to hit the road, Jack. Valancourt accompanies the St. Auberts on part of their journey, since he's headed in that direction anyway . More talk about the beauty of the scenery. Like, it's really, really pretty. Enough to make St. Aubert cry. St. Aubert is getting to like Valancourt quite a lot after spending so muc... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"In truth he was a strange and wayward wight,\n Fond of each gentle, and each dreadful scene,\n In darkness, and in storm he found delight;\n Nor less than when on ocean-wave serene\n The southern sun diffus'd his dazzling sheen.\n Even sad vicissitude amus'd his soul;\n And if a sigh would so... |
3,044 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | St. Aubert wakes up and is super-jazzed to finally get to Rousillon. The group starts to travel once more. Man, St. Aubert really likes Valancourt. He's also no dummy: he sees Valancourt and Emily acting all lovey-dovey toward each other. This makes St. Aubert think about how rarely nature and simplicity are appreciate... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"While in the rosy vale\n Love breath'd his infant sighs, from anguish free.\n Thomson",
"St. Aubert, sufficiently restored by a night's repose to pursue his\njourney, set out in the morning, with his family and Valancourt, for\nRousillon, which he hoped to reach before night-fall. The scenes,\... |
3,045 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Valancourt heads off on his own, he breakfasts with the St. Auberts one last time. St. Aubert tells Valancourt that he'd better hit them up if he's ever near La Vallee. Finally, it's farewell time. The St. Auberts continue on in the opposite direction, and St. Aubert reminisces about what a promising young man V... | [
"CHAPTER VI",
"I care not, Fortune! what you me deny;\n You cannot rob me of free nature's grace;\n You cannot shut the windows of the sky,\n Through which Aurora shews her brightening face;\n You cannot bar my constant feet to trace\n The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:\n Let health my nerves and fine... |
3,046 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emily wakes up the next morning in a poetic mood . She writes a little ditty called "The First Hour of Morning" about, y'know, waking up. At least she keeps it simple. St. Aubert is ready to hit the road again, but he can't even make it out of his chair without falling down. Yep, he's figured it out. He's dying, no que... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"Let those deplore their doom,\n Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn.\n But lofty souls can look beyond the tomb,\n Can smile at fate, and wonder how they mourn.\n Shall Spring to these sad scenes no more return?\n Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed?--\n Soon shall the orient with new l... |
3,047 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The monk who attended St. Aubert invites Emily to come visit the nearby convent, but she needs to get it together first. There's a lot of crying going on here, naturally. Emily can't help but hear the same mysterious music she heard on the first night. St. Aubert, is that you? Emily chills at La Voisin's place for a li... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"O'er him, whose doom thy virtues grieve,\n Aerial forms shall sit at eve,\n and bend the pensive head.\n COLLINS",
"The monk, who had before appeared, returned in the evening to offer\nconsolation to Emily, and brought a kind message from the lady abbess,\ninviting her to the convent. Emily... |
3,048 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There's a new sheriff in town, Emily, and it's Madame Cheron. The good Madame invites Emily to her estates in Tholouse, but Em hopes to put her off for as long as possible. Emily heads over to the old fishing-house to be mopey, and who should she run into but Valancourt. It's a total coincidence that he's wandering aro... | [
"CHAPTER IX",
"Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye,\n Can Painting's glowing hand supply\n A charm so suited to my mind,\n As blows this hollow gust of wind?\n As drops this little weeping rill,\n Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill;\n While, through the west, where sinks the crimson day,\n Meek Twilight ... |
3,049 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emily lights up a fire in her dad's old bedchamber and gets ready to burn. Following St. Aubert's last instructions, she digs up all of his old papers under the floorboards. Whoa, she thinks she sees her father's ghost sitting in his chair. Calm down! As she's in the process of fainting Emily catches a glimpse of writi... | [
"CHAPTER X",
"Can such things be,\n And overcome us like a summer's cloud,\n Without our special wonder?\n MACBETH",
"On the next morning, Emily ordered a fire to be lighted in the stove\nof the chamber, where St. Aubert used to sleep; and, as soon as she had\nbreakfasted, went thither to burn the papers. H... |
3,050 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's off to Tholouse for Ms. Emily, who is none too happy to be headed far from home. Auntie Cheron doesn't even stop the carriage to let Em say goodbye to her father's pensioners. FYI, pensioners are people who were given a sum of money by St. Aubert. Valancourt returns back home to Estuviere brokenhearted. He's more ... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"I leave that flowery path for eye\n Of childhood, where I sported many a day,\n Warbling and sauntering carelessly along;\n Where every face was innocent and gay,\n Each vale romantic, tuneful every tongue,\n Sweet, wild, and artless all.\n THE MINSTREL",
"At an early hour, the carriage, whic... |
3,051 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em gets up early to take a little stroll around Tholouse. She has to admit, the views are pretty nice. But man, Madame Cheron can't let the Valancourt thing go. She tells Emily she doesn't want her strolling the gardens unattended--after all, she's not to be trusted. Madame Cheron hosts yet another dinner with Cavigni ... | [
"CHAPTER XII",
"Some pow'r impart the spear and shield,\n At which the wizard passions fly,\n By which the giant follies die.\n COLLINS",
"Madame Cheron's house stood at a little distance from the city of Tholouse, and was surrounded by extensive gardens, in which Emily, who had risen early, amused herself ... |
3,052 | 3268_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame Cheron is ready to lock Valancourt down as Emily's husband, still thinking that he's Mr. Moneybags. Madame Clairval, Valancourt's aunt, is all too happy to consent. After all, she thinks Emily is the sole heiress of Madame Cheron's fortune. Everyone's a little confused here. Oh yeah, and Madame Cheron casually l... | [
"CHAPTER XIII",
"As when a shepherd of the Hebrid-Isles,\n Placed far amid the melancholy main,\n (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles,\n Or that aerial beings sometimes deign\n To stand embodied to our senses plain)\n Sees on the naked hill, or valley low,\n The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain,\n ... |
3,053 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emily's maybe the only person ever who has to be dragged to Venice. As the carriage heads off, a disguised Valancourt presses a letter into her hand. Game on. Here are the juicy tidbits of Valancourt's letter: every time the sun sets, he'll look at it and think of her. Aww, it's just waiting to be turned into a Disney ... | [
"VOLUME 2 CHAPTER I",
"Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,\n My heart untravell'd still shall turn to thee.\n GOLDSMITH",
"The carriages were at the gates at an early hour; the bustle of the\ndomestics, passing to and fro in the galleries, awakened Emily from\nharassing slumbers: her unquiet mind had, d... |
3,054 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Montonis and Emily are plowing through this journey. The group stops briefly in Turin, but Montoni won't let them rest long. Emily notices signs of war everywhere in Milan. Not a pretty sight. After leaving Milan, the group spots a band of soldiers. Looks like they're buddies of Montoni's. These aren't just any sol... | [
"CHAPTER II",
"TITANIA. If you will patiently dance in our round,\n And see our moon-light revels, go with us.\n MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM",
"Early on the following morning, the travellers set out for Turin.\nThe luxuriant plain, that extends from the feet of the Alps to that\nmagnificent city, was not then... |
3,055 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hold onto your hats, Shmoopers. This is a super long and twisty chapter. First up: Montoni and his drinking buddies stay out 'til the break of dawn. Meet the rest of his friends: besides Cavigni, there's Bertolini, Orsino, and Verezzi. Oh yeah, and Count Morano. Madame Montoni doesn't really like them. Like everyone wh... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"He is a great observer, and he looks\n Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,\n he hears no music;\n Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort,\n As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit\n that could be mov'd to smile at any thing.\n Such men as he be never at heart's eas... |
3,056 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Luckily, the Quesnels are coming to visit. This should clear things up, right? Wrong. Quesnel's really not interested in anything Em has to say. The wedding is on! In the middle of all of this madness, Orsino gets himself in some trouble. He hires an assassin to waylay and kill an enemy of his. Montoni, being a good bu... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice.\n THOMSON",
"Emily seized the first opportunity of conversing alone with Mons. Quesnel, concerning La Vallee. His answers to her enquiries were\nconcise, and delivered with the air of a man, who is conscious of\npossessing absolute power and impatie... |
3,057 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Next thing Emily knows, she's being woken up by her maid, Annette, in the middle of the night. The whole crew is leaving for Udolpho--except that crew doesn't include Count Morano. Emily has no clue what's going on, but she goes along with it. The travelers begin to cross the Appenines. And hey, you guessed it. It's ti... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"Dark power! with shudd'ring, meek submitted thought\n Be mine to read the visions old\n Which thy awak'ning bards have told,\n And, lest they meet my blasted view,\n Hold each strange tale devoutly true.\n COLLINS' ODE TO FEAR",
"Emily was recalled from a kind of slumber, into which she had, a... |
3,058 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emily wakes up all nature-happy. She looks outside her window like she's surveying the kingdom: look at the trees! And the cliffs! Then she catches a glimpse of that secret door to her room. Oopsie, someone has definitely locked it in the night. That can only mean that someone's been creeping around only feet from wher... | [
"CHAPTER VI",
"I think it is the weakness of mine eyes,\n That shapes this monstrous apparition.\n It comes upon me!\n JULIUS CAESAR",
"Daylight dispelled from Emily's mind the glooms of superstition, but\nnot those of apprehension. The Count Morano was the first image, that\noccurred to her waking thought... |
3,059 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All right, Shmoopers. Here's the chapter where we get filled in on some of the fuzzier details from earlier in the book. Remember when Montoni made a hasty exit from Venice? Yeah, Morano showed up shortly after and was pretty upset about his missing bride. So Morano headed right out in pursuit of Em--all the way across... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"Of aery tongues, that syllable men's names\n On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.\n MILTON",
"It is now necessary to mention some circumstances, which could not be\nrelated amidst the events of Emily's hasty departure from Venice, or\ntogether with those, which so rapidly succeeded ... |
3,060 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's been a while since we checked in on Valancourt, so let's see how our guy is doing. Last time we saw him, he was all broken-hearted in Tholouse over Em. Well, he's found an interesting way to cope with heartbreak--namely, by partying it up in Paris with a certain Countess Lacleur. Ahem, Valancourt is spending a lit... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"He wears the rose of youth upon his cheek.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"We now return to Valancourt, who, it may be remembered, remained\nat Tholouse, some time after the departure of Emily, restless and\nmiserable. Each morrow that approached, he designed should carry\nhim from thence; yet to-morrow a... |
3,061 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back to Em at Udolpho, who is still totally hung up on Valancourt. At least Em is getting her fill of gossip from Annette. Annette tells her that Montoni may be preparing the castle for battle. All sorts of soldiers are showing up out of the blue. Em's in her chamber one night when someone starts violently knocking on ... | [
"CHAPTER IX",
"The image of a wicked, heinous fault\n Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his\n Does shew the mood of a much-troubled breast.\n KING JOHN",
"Leaving the gay scenes of Paris, we return to those of the gloomy\nApennine, where Emily's thoughts were still faithful to Valancourt.\nLooking to h... |
3,062 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Madame Montoni is as determined as ever not to give up her property to her husband. While Madame Montoni recovers, Em has to go to dinner with a bunch of Montoni's new guests. She tries to dress simply, but Montoni makes her wear a flashy outfit. Dinner is a bust. All of Montoni's guests are wild-look... | [
"CHAPTER X",
"And shall no lay of death\n With pleasing murmur sooth\n Her parted soul?\n Shall no tear wet her grave?\n SAYERS",
"On the following morning, Emily went early to the apartment of Madame\nMontoni, who had slept well, and was much recovered. Her spirits had\nalso returned with her health, and h... |
3,063 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em wakes up from a little nappy-nap and decides to finally ask Montoni about letting Annette out of the room. Nice of her to be in such a hurry. She sees remnants of the battle strewn all about. Em runs into Montoni in the hallway. He's worried that she overheard something he was saying, but promises to get Annette out... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"Who rears the bloody hand?\n SAYERS",
"Emily remained in her chamber, on the following morning, without\nreceiving any notice from Montoni, or seeing a human being, except the\narmed men, who sometimes passed on the terrace below. Having tasted no\nfood since the dinner of the preceding day, ... |
3,064 | 3268_volume_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Annette has big news for Em about a new guest at the castle. That would be Orsino, otherwise known as the outlaw who killed a guy in Venice. Yup. Montoni is harboring a fugitive. But what Em really wants to know is where that strange music is coming from. She asks Annette about musicians in the castle, but gets nada. A... | [
"CHAPTER XII",
"Then, oh, you blessed ministers above,\n Keep me in patience; and, in ripen'd time,\n Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up\n In countenance.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"Annette came almost breathless to Emily's apartment in the morning. 'O\nma'amselle!' said she, in broken sentences, 'what news I hav... |
3,065 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em's creeped out, but she makes the meeting. Barnardine takes her through the castle and tells her to hold on a sec: he has to make sure Madame Montoni wants to see her. While waiting for Barnardine to check, Em examines the chamber she's been left in. She sees what look like torture devices and a dark curtain drawn ac... | [
"VOLUME 3 CHAPTER I",
"I will advise you where to plant yourselves;\n Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,\n The moment on 't; for 't must be done to-night.\n MACBETH",
"Emily was somewhat surprised, on the following day, to find that Annette\nhad heard of Madame Montoni's confinement in the chamb... |
3,066 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Annette fills Em in on how she knew Barnardine was bad: she watched from the terrace as the evil porter tried to kidnap Em. Em wants to see Montoni ASAP, but he puts off seeing her for a day. Meanwhile, Em hears more than strange music at night. There's the distinct sound of moaning around midnight. Naturally, Em wants... | [
"CHAPTER II",
"unfold\n What worlds, or what vast regions, hold\n Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook\n Her mansion in this fleshly nook!\n IL PENSEROSO",
"Emily's mind was refreshed by sleep. On waking in the morning, she\nlooked with surprise on Annette, who sat sleeping in a chair beside the\nbed, and t... |
3,067 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Montoni puts off seeing Em once again. Big surprise. Em hears a band of men coming back to the castle, bragging about all the plunder they took from neighboring castle. Something tells us this won't end well. Always big on jumping to conclusions, Em assumes Montoni is a captain of robbers. Well, the narra... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp,\n Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres,\n Lingering, and sitting, by a new-made grave.\n MILTON",
"On the following day, Montoni sent a second excuse to Emily, who was\nsurprised at the circumstance. 'This is very strange!' said she to\nhers... |
3,068 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Montoni makes a last-ditch effort to get a signature from Madame M. before she dies, but it's no use. Once Montoni's out of the way, Madame M. directs Em to some papers she concealed from her rotten husband. Remember, all the lands go straight to Em when her auntie dies. Em watches again for the strange figure and thin... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"There is one within,\n Besides the things, that we have heard and seen,\n Recounts most horrid sights, seen by the watch.\n JULIUS CAESAR",
"In the morning, Emily found Madame Montoni nearly in the same condition,\nas on the preceding night; she had slept little, and that little had\nnot refr... |
3,069 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em and Annette prepare Madame M. for burial. They bring in a friar from outside the castle walls. Montoni tries to get Em to sign the papers using some Class A trickery, but Em is too smart for him. When she refuses to sign, Montoni tells her to watch out: she speaks like a heroine, but can she suffer like a heroine? M... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"The midnight clock has toll'd; and hark, the bell\n Of Death beats slow! heard ye the note profound?\n It pauses now; and now, with rising knell,\n Flings to the hollow gale its sullen sound.\n MASON",
"When Montoni was informed of the death of his wife, and considered\nthat she had died witho... |
3,070 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Annette tells Em that Montoni and all of his friends were super-drunk last night and carousing with the women. Signora Livona is actually Montoni's new mistress. That guy moves fast. Montoni argues with Em once again about signing the papers, but she refuses. All of a sudden, they both hear the mysterious groaning. Pre... | [
"CHAPTER VI",
"might we but hear\n The folded flocks penn'd in their watled cotes,\n Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops,\n Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock\n Count the night watches to his feathery dames,\n 'Twould be some solace yet, some little cheering\n In this close dungeon of innumerous bo... |
3,071 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em wakes up in the morning in Tuscany and realizes life ain't bad. She meets Dorina's daughter, Maddelina, and the two quickly become bosom buddies. Em figures out that Maddelina's dad, Marco, probably performed some services for Montoni at some point. Her immediate conclusion: he totally murdered Signora Laurentini. I... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"Was nought around but images of rest,\n Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between,\n And flowery beds that slumbrous influence kept,\n From poppies breath'd, and banks of pleasant green,\n Where never yet was creeping creature seen.\n Meantime unnumbered glittering streamlets play'd,\n And hu... |
3,072 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once again, it's time to clear up some fuzzy stuff from earlier on. Count Morano's been having a heck of a time since he failed to kidnap Em. Back when Montoni suspected someone of poisoning his cup, he had a pretty good hunch that Morano was somehow involved. Bingo, Montoni. Since Montoni's a powerful guy, he got some... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.\n I play the torturer, by small and small,\n To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken.\n RICHARD II",
"We now return, for a moment, to Venice, where Count Morano was suffering\nunder an accumulation of misfortunes. Soon after his arrival in tha... |
3,073 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em recruits Ludovico, Annette's sweetheart, to investigate whether Valancourt is in the dungeons. Ludovico can't get confirmation that the prisoner is definitely Valancourt, but he brings back some weird news: there's a prisoner in the dungeon who definitely knows Em. What's more, the prisoner gives Ludovico Em's mom's... | [
"CHAPTER IX",
"Thus on the chill Lapponian's dreary land,\n For many a long month lost in snow profound,\n When Sol from Cancer sends the seasons bland,\n And in their northern cave the storms hath bound;\n From silent mountains, straight, with startling sound,\n Torrents are hurl'd, green hills emerge, and lo,\n... |
3,074 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All right, Shmoopers. It's time for a 180 that involves a totally new plot and characters. It all relates back to Em, we promise! So there's this Count de Villeforte guy who inherited the estate of the Marquis de Villeroi. Sound familiar? That's because it's the place Em passed by with her dad way back in the beginning... | [
"CHAPTER X",
"Oh! the joy\n Of young ideas, painted on the mind\n In the warm glowing colours fancy spreads\n On objects not yet known, when all is new,\n And all is lovely!\n SACRED DRAMAS",
"We now return to Languedoc and to the mention of Count De Villefort, the\nnobleman, who succeeded to an estate of t... |
3,075 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Blanche wanders around the chateau a bit more and writes an eloquent poem in honor of its beauty. She feels all the feelings. A storm's a-comin', so the de Villefortes head inside to enjoy a comfortable evening. They hear a firing of guns at a distance, and head to the windows to check out what the ruckus is all about.... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"What transport to retrace our early plays,\n Our easy bliss, when each thing joy supplied\n The woods, the mountains and the warbling maze\n Of the wild brooks!\n THOMSON",
"Blanche's slumbers continued, till long after the hour, which she had\nso impatiently anticipated, for her woman, fatig... |
3,076 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Blanche and Em get to be friends lickety-split, since they're both into exploring castles and the beauty of nature. They try to get old Dorothee to spill about the former mistress of the castle, the Marchioness de Villeroi, but the servant is totally tight-lipped. Dorothee does mention that Em is the spitting image of ... | [
"CHAPTER XII",
"Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia, silver-bright,\n In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of folly,\n With freedom by my side, and soft-ey'd melancholy.\n GRAY",
"The Lady Blanche was so much interested for Emily, that, upon hearing\nshe was going to reside in the neighbouring convent, she requ... |
3,077 | 3268_volume_3,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a while, Em heads back for a second visit at Chateau-le-Blanc with her buddy Blanche. Dorothee catches a glimpse of the miniature portrait of Em in her mom's bracelet, and realizes once again that she looks exactly like the late Marchioness. She promises to tell Em all about what happened to the Marchioness, even... | [
"CHAPTER XIII",
"As when a wave, that from a cloud impends,\n And, swell'd with tempests, on the ship descends,\n White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud,\n Howl o'er the masts, and sing through ev'ry shroud:\n Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears,\n And instant death on ev'ry wave appears... |
3,078 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Em and Valancourt finally have their dreaded talk, Em spells it out pretty clearly for her poor beau: she still loves him, but the whole marriage thing definitely is not going to be happening. Valancourt is pretty devastated, but he also admits he isn't worthy of Em. He totally regrets gambling his life savings aw... | [
"VOLUME 4 CHAPTER I",
"Is all the council that we two have shared,\n the hours that we have spent,\n When we have chid the hasty-footed time\n For parting us--Oh! and is all forgot?",
"And will you rend our ancient love asunder?\n MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM",
"In the evening, when Emily was at length inf... |
3,079 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oh yeah, did we mention that Em agreed to see Valancourt one more time? They meet again and continue to lament their fates. Em can't marry Valancourt because he screwed up big-time, and Valancourt can't marry Em because he isn't worth the scum on her shoes. The pair promises to part forever. Looks like Emmencourt wasn'... | [
"CHAPTER II",
"Come, weep with me;--past hope, past cure, past help!\n ROMEO AND JULIET",
"Valancourt, meanwhile, suffered the tortures of remorse and despair. The sight of Emily had renewed all the ardour, with which he first loved\nher, and which had suffered a temporary abatement from absence and the\npa... |
3,080 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hoo boy, Montoni was mad when Em flew the coop a couple chapters back. Let's catch up on his situation. It's not looking too good for the Udolpho crew. A powerful army is about to receive orders from Venice to march on the castle. A clever young officer is planning to partially take Udolpho by force while sneaking some... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"This is no mortal business, nor no sound\n That the earth owes!\n SHAKESPEARE",
"We now return to the mention of Montoni, whose rage and disappointment\nwere soon lost in nearer interests, than any, which the unhappy Emily\nhad awakened. His depredations having exceeded their usual limits, a... |
3,081 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next night, Dorothee shows up to take Em to the Marchioness's chambers. Sounds like our idea of fun. Dorothee shows Em where she last saw the Marchioness's corpse, resting on an elaborate bed. She also shows Em a picture of her late mistress, who really is the spitting image of Em. Em thinks she sees a figure glide... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"Now it is the time of night,\n That, the graves all gaping wide,\n Every one lets forth his spite,\n In the church-way path to glide.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"On the next night, about the same hour as before, Dorothee came to\nEmily's chamber, with the keys of that suite of rooms, which had been\npar... |
3,082 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em makes the mistake of telling loudmouth Annette all about the ghostly figure, which means half the castle knows by the morning. Luckily, there are some new visitors to distract from the ghost stories. The Baron de Saint Foix and his cute son, the Chevalier St. Foix, show up at the chateau. The Chevalier St. Foix is i... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"Hail, mildly-pleasing Solitude!\n Companion of the wise and good--",
"This is the balmy breath of morn,\n Just as the dew-bent rose is born.",
"But chief when evening scenes decay\n And the faint landscape swims away,\n Thine is the doubtful, soft decline,\n And that best hour of musing thine.\n... |
3,083 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ludovico gets set up in the haunted room with a couple of books and waits for the ghosts to show up. In the meantime, we get to hear one of the stories from his books: it's "The Provencal Tale," all about a noble Baron. The Baron gets a visit from a weird knight who asks him to meet him deep in the woods. Once there, t... | [
"CHAPTER VI",
"Ye gods of quiet, and of sleep profound!\n Whose soft dominion o'er this castle sways,\n And all the widely-silent places round,\n Forgive me, if my trembling pen displays\n What never yet was sung in mortal lays.\n THOMSON",
"The Count gave orders for the north apartments to be opened and pr... |
3,084 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the Count goes to find Ludovico, he's vanished from the room. No one can figure out how that's possible, since the room was locked. After about a week, Ludovico is still missing and the mystery remains unsolved. Back to regular castle activity. Du Pont is still hanging around Emily like a lovesick puppy dog, but s... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber;\n Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies,\n Which busy care draws in the brains of men;\n Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"The Count, who had slept little during the night, rose early, and,\nanxious to speak with Ludovico, went to the n... |
3,085 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Count de Villeforte's been looking into Em's claim to her late aunt's properties, and he's got good news. Kind of. Orsino was executed for murdering the nobleman, while Montoni died in a mysterious manner. There are some whispers that someone finally got him with poison. Since there's no more dispute over the prope... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,\n Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,\n Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,",
"I will speak to thee.\n HAMLET",
"Count de Villefort, at length, received a letter from the advocate at\nAvignon, encouraging Emily to assert h... |
3,086 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Well, whaddya know. When the Baron St. Foix goes to check on the Count de Villeforte and Henri in the morning, they're still there. Em goes to visit the convent again, where she finds the nuns all caught up on the haunted-room sitch. Sister Agnes can't help but wax eloquent about how everyone is guilty of grievous sins... | [
"CHAPTER IX",
"Give thy thoughts no tongue.\n SHAKESPEARE",
"The Baron St. Foix, whom anxiety for his friend had kept awake, rose\nearly to enquire the event of the night, when, as he passed the Count's\ncloset, hearing steps within, he knocked at the door, and it was opened\nby his friend himself. Rejoicin... |
3,087 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em heads on over to Tholouse, moping over Valancourt the whole way. This is the kind of breakup that requires a few pints of Ben & Jerry's. Arriving at Tholouse is like taking a trip down memory lane with Valancourt. All Em can think about is the happy times they shared together. Just when she's getting particularly up... | [
"CHAPTER X",
"Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,\n Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain:\n Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise!\n Each stamps its image as the other flies!\n PLEASURES OF MEMORY",
"Emily pursued her journey, without any accident, along the plains of\nLanguedoc towa... |
3,088 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Em heads on back to La Vallee to take her mind off of the possibility that Valancourt is dead. She has a nice time hanging out with Monsieur Barreaux, her father's old friend and neighbor. Since Em has a good heart, she also wants to figure out what happened to Theresa, her old servant dismissed by Quesnel. She finds T... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade!\n Ah fields belov'd in vain!\n Where once my careless childhood stray'd,\n A stranger yet to pain!\n I feel the gales, that from ye blow,\n A momentary bliss bestow,\n As waving fresh their gladsome wing,\n My weary soul they seem to sooth.\n GRAY",
"On the ... |
3,089 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coming back to Count de Villeforte and his family, we get a taste of all the scenery they've encountered on their little trip. They've had a nice visit with the Baron St. Foix and now they're heading back home. Young St. Foix is tagging along for the ride, too, since he's smitten with Blanche. But it's getting dark, an... | [
"CHAPTER XII",
"Light thickens, and the crow\n Makes wing to the rooky wood:\n Good things of day begin to droop, and drowze;\n While night's black agents to their preys do rouze.\n MACBETH",
"Meanwhile Count De Villefort and Lady Blanche had passed a pleasant\nfortnight at the chateau de St. Foix, with the... |
3,090 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Em and Theresa are having a sob-fest over the dearly departed Valancourt. They don't know for certain that he's dead, but they're pretty sure. Em even admits that she's still kind of in love with the guy. Just on cue, in walks Valancourt. The guy's got good timing, we'll give him that. His arm's in a sling f... | [
"CHAPTER XIII",
"Ah why did Fate his steps decoy\n In stormy paths to roam,\n Remote from all congenial joy!\n BEATTIE",
"Emily, mean while, was still suffering anxiety as to the fate of\nValancourt; but Theresa, having, at length, found a person, whom she\ncould entrust on her errand to the steward, inform... |
3,091 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Annette's seen a ghost! She storms into Emily's parlour, shaken from head to toe. Yep, the ghost is her sweetheart Ludovico, returned from his adventure beyond the haunted room. Ludovico also bears news that the Count de Villeforte and Blanche are on their way for a visit to La Vallee. Guess they haven't had enough exc... | [
"CHAPTER XIV",
"Call up him, that left half told\n The story of Cambuscan bold.\n MILTON",
"On the following morning, as Emily sat in the parlour adjoining the\nlibrary, reflecting on the scene of the preceding night, Annette rushed\nwildly into the room, and, without speaking, sunk breathless into a\nchair... |
3,092 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Man, the Count de Villeforte is really laying it on thick trying to convince Em to go for Du Pont. Stop trying to make fetch happen, Count. After hanging out at La Vallee for a while, the Count invites Em back to Chateau-le-Blanc. Yes, these rich people really do bounce back and forth between each other's homes a lot. ... | [
"CHAPTER XV",
"Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,\n The bees' collected treasures sweet,\n Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet\n The still, small voice of gratitude.\n GRAY",
"On the following day, the arrival of her friend revived the drooping\nEmily, and La Vallee became once more the scene of ... |
3,093 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Em runs into the abbess while walking around the chateau. It's a small world. The abbess invites Em back to the convent again, telling her that Agnes mentions her name frequently. Well, Em gets a special reception when she visits Agnes. Agnes screams at her: "Ah! That vision comes upon me in my dying hour... | [
"CHAPTER XVI",
"Unnatural deeds\n Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds\n To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.\n More needs she the divine, than the physician.\n MACBETH",
"On the following evening, the view of the convent towers, rising among\nthe shadowy woods, reminded Emily of the ... |
3,094 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unfortunately, Signora Laurentini/Agnes passes away after her big confession. Fortunately, she's left a big chunk of money and estates to Em, including Udolpho. Em just can't get away from her favorite place. Let's get a little more context on our favorite lady-turned-nun before closing the book on her. She was a spoil... | [
"CHAPTER XVII",
"But in these cases,\n We still have judgment here; that we but teach\n Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return\n To plague the inventor: thus even-handed justice\n Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice\n To our own lips.\n MACBETH",
"Some circumstances of an extraordina... |
3,095 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though the Count's okey-dokey with Valancourt now, he doesn't yet tell Emily that she's in the clear to marry him. He's a busy guy and all. Plus, his only daughter is getting married to Monsieur St. Foix. One evening, Em's out wandering as she often likes to do. You betcha she runs into Valancourt. Of course, he t... | [
"CHAPTER XVIII",
"Then, fresh tears\n Stood on her cheek, as doth the honey-dew\n Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd\n SHAKESPEARE",
"After the late discoveries, Emily was distinguished at the chateau by\nthe Count and his family, as a relative of the house of Villeroi, and\nreceived, if possible, more fr... |
3,096 | 3268_volume_4,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Blanche and Em get married in a double wedding to their sweethearts in grand style at Chateau-le-Blanc. Soon after all the celebrating goes down, Em and Valancourt zip back to La Vallee to start their married life together. Valancourt's brother likes Em so much that he gives him part of his estates. Nice. Em gives Anne... | [
"CHAPTER XIX",
"Now my task is smoothly done,\n I can fly, or I can run\n Quickly to the green earth's end,\n Where the bow'd welkin low doth bend,\n And, from thence, can soar as soon\n To the corners of the moon.\n MILTON",
"The marriages of the Lady Blanche and Emily St. Aubert were celebrated,\non the s... |
3,097 | 45631_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon Northup narrates his own story of being kidnapped and sold into slavery, in which he remained for twelve years until he was freed. He states that he will tell his story as faithfully as possible. Solomon paternal ancestors were slaves in Rhode Island, and eventually his father became free. Henry B. Northup of S... | [
"INTRODUCTORY--ANCESTRY--THE NORTHUP FAMILY--BIRTH AND\n PARENTAGE--MINTUS NORTHUP--MARRIAGE WITH ANNE HAMPTON--GOOD\n RESOLUTIONS--CHAMPLAIN CANAL--RAFTING EXCURSION TO\n CANADA--FARMING--THE VIOLIN--COOKING--REMOVAL TO SARATOGA--PARKER AND\n PERRY--SLAVES AND SLAVERY--THE CHILDREN--THE BEGINNING OF SORROW.",
... |
3,098 | 45631_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne is about twenty miles away with Elizabeth, engaged in culinary work. Alonzo and Margaret are with their aunt. Thus, Solomon is alone as he strolls about Saratoga Springs one day in 1841. He meets two respectably-dressed gentlemen named Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. They tell Solomon that they are part of a cir... | [
"THE TWO STRANGERS--THE CIRCUS COMPANY--DEPARTURE FROM\n SARATOGA--VENTRILOQUISM AND LEGERDEMAIN--JOURNEY TO NEW-YORK--FREE\n PAPERS--BROWN AND HAMILTON--THE HASTE TO REACH THE CIRCUS--ARRIVAL IN\n WASHINGTON--FUNERAL OF HARRISON--THE SUDDEN SICKNESS--THE TORMENT OF\n THIRST--THE RECEDING LIGHT--INSENSIBILITY--... |
3,099 | 45631_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon hears footsteps above him. He seems to be in an underground space; it is damp, dark, and moldy. Finally, two men enter: the first is James H. Burch, a repugnant, coarse, and cruel slave trader; and Ebenezer Radburn, a lackey and a turnkey. The light coming into the room reveals more of its dimensions. There is ... | [
"PAINFUL MEDITATIONS--JAMES H. BURCH--WILLIAMS' SLAVE PEN IN\n WASHINGTON--THE LACKEY, RADBURN--ASSERT MY FREEDOM--THE ANGER OF\n THE TRADER--THE PADDLE AND CAT-O'-NINETAILS--THE WHIPPING--NEW\n ACQUAINTANCES--RAY, WILLIAMS, AND RANDALL--ARRIVAL OF LITTLE EMILY\n AND HER MOTHER IN THE PEN--MATERNAL SORROWS--THE... |
3,100 | 45631_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a long night, and Eliza speaks bitterly of Mr. Brooks and how Elisha would never have done that to her. Around midnight, Burch enters and tells the group to get ready to go on the boat without delay. They are marched through the silent streets of Washington. Little lights flicker, but no one is out of bed. Solomo... | [
"ELIZA'S SORROWS--PREPARATION TO EMBARK--DRIVEN THROUGH THE STREETS\n OF WASHINGTON--HAIL, COLUMBIA--THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON--CLEM\n RAY--THE BREAKFAST ON THE STEAMER--THE HAPPY BIRDS--AQUIA\n CREEK--FREDERICKSBURGH--ARRIVAL IN RICHMOND--GOODIN AND HIS\n SLAVE PEN--ROBERT, OF CINCINNATI--DAVID AND HIS WIFE--MARY... |
3,101 | 45631_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The brig Orleans heads downriver and arrives at Norfolk, where it takes on four more slaves. One, Arthur, had also been a free man, and he struggles mightily before he is subdued. During the day, the slaves are allowed to remain on deck. Solomon is in charge of cooking. In the evening, they are locked in the hold. Solo... | [
"ARRIVAL AT NORFOLK--FREDERICK AND MARIA--ARTHUR, THE\n FREEMAN--APPOINTED STEWARD--JIM, CUFFEE, AND JENNY--THE STORM--BAHAMA\n BANKS--THE CALM--THE CONSPIRACY--THE LONG BOAT--THE SMALL-POX--DEATH\n OF ROBERT--MANNING, THE SAILOR--THE MEETING IN THE FORECASTLE--THE\n LETTER--ARRIVAL AT NEW-ORLEANS--ARTHUR'S RES... |
3,102 | 45631_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the slaves wash and get dressed for the sales-room. They are to be smart, lively, and polite, and Solomon plays the violin. Many customers come to inspect the group. One old gentleman almost buys Northup, but Freeman will not take the price he offers. A planter from Baton Rouge purchases Lethe and the boy... | [
"FREEMAN'S INDUSTRY--CLEANLINESS AND CLOTHES--EXERCISING IN THE SHOW\n ROOM--THE DANCE--BOB, THE FIDDLER--ARRIVAL OF CUSTOMERS--SLAVES\n EXAMINED--THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF NEW-ORLEANS--SALE OF DAVID,\n CAROLINE AND LETHE--PARTING OF RANDALL AND ELIZA--SMALL POX--THE\n HOSPITAL--RECOVERY AND RETURN TO FREEMAN'S SLAV... |
3,103 | 45631_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The steamboat Rodolph begins its trek up the Mississippi to the Red River. Solomon's new owner is William Ford, who resides in the Great Pine Woods in the parish of Avoyelles in the heart of Louisiana. He is a minister, and Solomon asserts that "there never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William For... | [
"THE STEAMBOAT RODOLPH--DEPARTURE FROM NEW-ORLEANS--WILLIAM\n FORD--ARRIVAL AT ALEXANDRIA, ON RED RIVER--RESOLUTIONS--THE GREAT\n PINE WOODS--WILD CATTLE--MARTIN'S SUMMER RESIDENCE--THE TEXAS\n ROAD--ARRIVAL AT MASTER FORD'S--ROSE--MISTRESS FORD--SALLY, AND\n HER CHILDREN--JOHN, THE COOK--WALTER, SAM, AND ANTON... |
3,104 | 45631_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unfortunately, Ford's financial situation begins to deteriorate and he has to sell Solomon to Tibeats due to Solomon's skill as a carpenter. Ford does take out four hundred dollars in excess of what he sold Solomon for, which will prove crucial later. Tibeats takes Solomon down to Bayou Boeuf to continue working on the... | [
"FORD'S EMBARRASSMENTS--THE SALE TO TIBEATS--THE CHATTEL\n MORTGAGE--MISTRESS FORD'S PLANTATION ON BAYOU BOEUF--DESCRIPTION\n OF THE LATTER--FORD'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, PETER TANNER--MEETING\n WITH ELIZA--SHE STILL MOURNS FOR HER CHILDREN--FORD'S OVERSEER,\n CHAPIN--TIBEAT'S ABUSE--THE KEG OF NAILS--THE FIRST FIGHT ... |
3,105 | 45631_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon remains completely bound in the hot sun. He feels near collapse and his limbs ache, but he cannot move. Chapin never relieves him, but he paces the porch. Perhaps he wanted Ford to see how badly Tibeats had treated Solomon, or perhaps he did not want to interfere more. Rachel comes out once to give Solomon wate... | [
"THE HOT SUN--YET BOUND--THE CORDS SINK INTO MY FLESH--CHAPIN'S\n UNEASINESS--SPECULATION--RACHEL, AND HER CUP OF WATER--SUFFERING\n INCREASES--THE HAPPINESS OF SLAVERY--ARRIVAL OF FORD--HE CUTS THE\n CORDS WHICH BIND ME, AND TAKES THE ROPE FROM MY NECK--MISERY--THE\n GATHERING OF THE SLAVES IN ELIZA'S CABIN--T... |
3,106 | 45631_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon is sent back to work with Tibeats building a cotton press. They spend a great deal of time together, much of it alone, and Solomon has Chapin's warning in his mind. One day, they are working and Tibeats chastises Solomon. Solomon makes a mistake and then tries to correct it. Tibeats grows more and more irate, g... | [
"RETURN TO TIBEATS--IMPOSSIBILITY OF PLEASING HIM--HE ATTACKS ME\n WITH A HATCHET--THE STRUGGLE OVER THE BROAD AXE--THE TEMPTATION\n TO MURDER HIM--ESCAPE ACROSS THE PLANTATION--OBSERVATIONS FROM\n THE FENCE--TIBEATS APPROACHES, FOLLOWED BY THE HOUNDS--THEY TAKE\n MY TRACK--THEIR LOUD YELLS--THEY ALMOST OVERTAK... |
3,107 | 45631_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Solomon works in Mistress Ford's garden to show his appreciation to her and Ford. Ford takes him to the bayou the next morning. Solomon's heart is heavy as he looks on the beauty of the Pine Woods, knowing he will probably be sold elsewhere. Ford speaks to him of God, His power, and His goodness. They enc... | [
"THE MISTRESS' GARDEN--THE CRIMSON AND GOLDEN FRUIT--ORANGE AND\n POMEGRANATE TREES--RETURN TO BAYOU BOEUF--MASTER FORD'S REMARKS ON\n THE WAY--THE MEETING WITH TIBEATS--HIS ACCOUNT OF THE CHASE--FORD\n CENSURES HIS BRUTALITY--ARRIVAL AT THE PLANTATION--ASTONISHMENT OF\n THE SLAVES ON SEEING ME--THE ANTICIPATED... |
3,108 | 45631_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Epps is heavy, Roman-nosed, and tall. He has a sharp expression, coarse manners, no education, violent tendencies, and a drinling habit. When drunk, he is rousing and blustering; when sober, he is cold and cunning. He grows cotton on a plantation belonging to his wife's uncle. Solomon provides an overview of the cotton... | [
"PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF EPPS--EPPS, DRUNK AND SOBER--A GLIMPSE\n OF HIS HISTORY--COTTON GROWING--THE MODE OF PLOUGHING AND\n PREPARING GROUND--OF PLANTING--OF HOEING, OF PICKING, OF\n TREATING RAW HANDS--THE DIFFERENCE IN COTTON PICKERS--PATSEY\n A REMARKABLE ONE--TASKED ACCORDING TO ABILITY--BEAUTY OF A\n COT... |
3,109 | 45631_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the season of hoeing, but Solomon finds himself weak and ill. Epps does not care, until the doctor says that Solomon will die and Epps will be out a thousand dollars. Solomon partially recovers but is soon sent out to pick cotton. He is not very good at it and is not yet healed, so his crop is thin. He is not des... | [
"THE CURIOUS AXE-HELVE--SYMPTOMS OF APPROACHING ILLNESS--CONTINUE\n TO DECLINE--THE WHIP INEFFECTUAL--CONFINED TO THE CABIN--VISIT BY\n DR. WINES--PARTIAL RECOVERY--FAILURE AT COTTON PICKING--WHAT MAY\n BE HEARD ON EPPS' PLANTATION--LASHES GRADUATED--EPPS IN A WHIPPING\n MOOD--EPPS IN A DANCING MOOD--DESCRIPTIO... |
3,110 | 45631_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In 1845, the caterpillars destroy the cotton crop throughout the region. There is a rumor that wages are high and laborers are in demand on the sugar plantations in St. Mary's parish, so a drove of slaves is sent down there. It is a long trek full of inclement weather, but they make it to the region. Solomon works for ... | [
"DESTRUCTION OF THE COTTON CROP IN 1845--DEMAND FOR LABORERS IN ST.",
"MARY'S PARISH--SENT THITHER IN A DROVE--THE ORDER OF THE MARCH--THE\n GRAND COTEAU--HIRED TO JUDGE TURNER ON BAYOU SALLE--APPOINTED\n DRIVER IN HIS SUGAR HOUSE--SUNDAY SERVICES SLAVE FURNITURE, HOW\n OBTAINED--THE PARTY AT YARNEY'S IN CENTR... |
3,111 | 45631_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since Solomon is skilled at cutting cane, Epps often hires him out during the season. Solomon describes the process of cultivating cane. He begins by explaining that the land is only planted every three years. The joint of cane has an eye and sends out sprouts. The field is hoed three times and general cutting begins i... | [
"LABORS ON SUGAR PLANTATIONS--THE MODE OF PLANTING CANE--OF\n HOEING CANE--CANE RICKS--CUTTING CANE--DESCRIPTION OF THE CANE\n KNIFE--WINROWING--PREPARING FOR SUCCEEDING CROPS--DESCRIPTION OF\n HAWKINS' SUGAR MILL ON BAYOU BOEUF--THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS--THE\n CARNIVAL SEASON OF THE CHILDREN OF BONDAGE--THE CHRI... |
3,112 | 45631_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon explains that Epps is considered a smaller planter and that he must hire during some seasons. Plantations with fifty or one-hundred slaves need an overseer, whose qualifications are "heartlessness, brutality, and cruelty". Overseers also keep dogs and pistols with them. Under the overseer are drivers, who are s... | [
"OVERSEERS--HOW THEY ARE ARMED AND ACCOMPANIED--THE HOMICIDE--HIS\n EXECUTION AT MARKSVILLE--SLAVE-DRIVERS--APPOINTED DRIVER ON REMOVING\n TO BAYOU BOEUF--PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT--EPPS' ATTEMPT TO CUT PLATT'S\n THROAT--THE ESCAPE FROM HIM--PROTECTED BY THE MISTRESS--FORBIDS\n READING AND WRITING--OBTAIN A SHEET ... |
3,113 | 45631_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Solomon recounts the sufferings of Wiley, who goes for a nocturnal visit without a pass. He is caught by a band of slave patrollers and is brought back. The patrollers whip him, and Epps does as well. His sufferings are so bad that he decides to run away. He tells no one and sets out. The search for him is fruitless; d... | [
"WILEY DISREGARDS THE COUNSELS OF AUNT PHEBE AND UNCLE ABRAM,\n AND IS CAUGHT BY THE PATROLLERS--THE ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES OF\n THE LATTER--WILEY RUNS AWAY--SPECULATIONS IN REGARD TO HIM--HIS\n UNEXPECTED RETURN--HIS CAPTURE ON RED RIVER, AND CONFINEMENT\n IN ALEXANDRIA JAIL--DISCOVERED BY JOSEPH B. ROBERTS--... |
3,114 | 45631_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Any trivial cause could lead Epps to whip one of his slaves, including Solomon. Solomon relates how one day, Phebe came to him and told him that a Mr. O'Niel, a tanner, wanted to buy Solomon. Solomon replies that he would be glad to go there. Mistress Epps hears this and tells her husband, and Epps comes to Solomon, en... | [
"O'NIEL, THE TANNER--CONVERSATION WITH AUNT PHEBE OVERHEARD--EPPS IN\n THE TANNING BUSINESS--STABBING OF UNCLE ABRAM--THE UGLY WOUND--EPPS\n IS JEALOUS--PATSEY IS MISSING--HER RETURN FROM SHAW'S--HARRIET,\n SHAW'S BLACK WIFE--EPPS ENRAGED--PATSEY DENIES HIS CHARGES--SHE IS\n TIED DOWN NAKED TO FOUR STAKES--THE ... |
3,115 | 45631_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In June 1852, the man to whom Solomon owes his freedom arrives in the bayou. Bass is an itinerant carpenter from Canada who travels around the country doing work; he currently lives in Marksville. He is noble, warmhearted, inoffensive, and firmly committed to the end of slavery. People throughout the South find him gen... | [
"AVERY, OF BAYOU ROUGE--PECULIARITY OF DWELLINGS--EPPS BUILDS\n A NEW HOUSE--BASS, THE CARPENTER--HIS NOBLE QUALITIES--HIS\n PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND ECCENTRICITIES--BASS AND EPPS DISCUSS\n THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY--EPPS' OPINION OF BASS--I MAKE MYSELF\n KNOWN TO HIM--OUR CONVERSATION--HIS SURPRISE--THE MIDNIGHT\... |
3,116 | 45631_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day before Christmas, Bass returns again from Marksville. He gives Solomon a nod to meet him after dark. He does not show up, and Solomon assumes correctly that they should meet the next morning before the rest of the household awakes. Bass tells him he has heard nothing, and Solomon despairs. Bass adds quickly tha... | [
"BASS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD--HIS ARRIVAL ON CHRISTMAS EVE--THE\n DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING AN INTERVIEW--THE MEETING IN THE\n CABIN--NON-ARRIVAL OF THE LETTER--BASS ANNOUNCES HIS INTENTION TO\n PROCEED NORTH--CHRISTMAS--CONVERSATION BETWEEN EPPS AND BASS--YOUNG\n MISTRESS M'COY, THE BEAUTY OF BAYOU BOEUF--THE \"NE... |
3,117 | 45631_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Messrs. Perry and Parker receive Bass's letter and immediately inform Anne. Her children visit Henry B. Northup to attain his assistance. As there is a statute protecting free citizens from being reduced to slavery, he pursues this with the Governor. He is able to prove that Solomon is a free citizen of New York and th... | [
"THE LETTER REACHES SARATOGA--IS FORWARDED TO ANNE--IS LAID\n BEFORE HENRY B. NORTHUP--THE STATUTE OF MAY 14, 1840--ITS\n PROVISIONS--ANNE'S MEMORIAL TO THE GOVERNOR--THE AFFIDAVITS\n ACCOMPANYING IT--SENATOR SOULE'S LETTER--DEPARTURE OF THE AGENT\n APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR--ARRIVAL AT MARKSVILLE--THE HON. JOH... |
3,118 | 45631_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The ship heads up the river to New Orleans, where the men tarry for two days. Northup has Solomon's free papers with him, and he is unaccosted. In Washington DC, they try to bring charges against Burch. Burch is arrested, allowed to post bail, and ordered to trial. Unfortunately, a former partner of Burch's lies on the... | [
"ARRIVAL IN NEW-ORLEANS--GLIMPSE OF FREEMAN--GENOIS, THE\n RECORDER--HIS DESCRIPTION OF SOLOMON--REACH CHARLESTON--INTERRUPTED\n BY CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICERS--PASS THROUGH RICHMOND--ARRIVAL IN\n WASHINGTON--BURCH ARRESTED--SHEKELS AND THORN--THEIR TESTIMONY--BURCH\n ACQUITTED--ARREST OF SOLOMON--BURCH WITHDRAWS THE... |
3,119 | 154_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bartley Hubbard has come to Silas Lapham's office to interview him for the "Solid Men of Boston" series in the Boston Events newspaper. Hubbard tells Silas, a nineteenth-century millionaire, that he wants his money or his life. "I guess you wouldn't want my life without the money," Lapham replies. "Take 'em both," Bart... | [
"WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the \"Solid Men\nof Boston\" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after\nhe replaced their original projector on that newspaper, Lapham received\nhim in his private office by previous appointment.",
"\"Walk right in!\" he called out to the... |
3,120 | 154_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lapham returns to his home in the unfashionable South End section of Boston. The Laphams, who have come from the country, are unaware of the need of an acceptable location to help them gain social approval. They are not made aware of their poor location until Mrs. Corey calls on them to thank Mrs. Lapham for caring for... | [
"AFTER dropping Bartley Hubbard at the Events building, Lapham drove on\ndown Washington Street to Nankeen Square at the South End, where he had\nlived ever since the mistaken movement of society in that direction\nceased. He had not built, but had bought very cheap of a terrified\ngentleman of good extraction who ... |
3,121 | 154_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Irene receives a Texas newspaper containing an account of the Honorable Loring G. Stanton ranch. Her mother suspects that it is a love token from Tom Corey, who is spending the winter on a Texas ranch. Irene clips the account from the paper and saves it. Lapham begins to build his house. His plan is the epitome of ugli... | [
"TOWARD the end of the winter there came a newspaper, addressed to Miss\nIrene Lapham; it proved to be a Texas newspaper, with a complimentary\naccount of the ranch of the Hon. Loring G. Stanton, which the\nrepresentative of the journal had visited.",
"\"It must be his friend,\" said Mrs. Lapham, to whom her daug... |
3,122 | 154_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Persis Lapham is soon reconciled to the building of the new home, and they visit the construction again. This time they are visited by Tom Corey, who has just returned from Texas. Lapham takes a liking to him, although he later says that he doesn't approve of a young man living off his parents. "I like to see a man act... | [
"THE silken texture of the marriage tie bears a daily strain of wrong\nand insult to which no other human relation can be subjected without\nlesion; and sometimes the strength that knits society together might\nappear to the eye of faltering faith the curse of those immediately\nbound by it. Two people by no means... |
3,123 | 154_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom returns home to find his father, Bromfield Corey, home alone while his wife and daughters are at the seashore for the summer. They discuss Tom's desire to do something. Bromfield suggests marriage, but Tom does not regard it as an occupation. Bromfield goes on to suggest that Tom fall in love with a rich girl. Tom ... | [
"AT the same moment young Corey let himself in at his own door with his\nlatch-key, and went to the library, where he found his father turning\nthe last leaves of a story in the Revue des Deux Mondes. He was a\nwhite-moustached old gentleman, who had never been able to abandon his\npince-nez for the superior comfo... |
3,124 | 154_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom Corey visits his mother at Bar Harbor to tell her that he is thinking of going into the Lapham paint business. Like her husband, Mrs. Corey objects to Lapham's defacing the countryside with his advertisements. "There was one of his hideous advertisements painted on a reef that we saw as we came down," she says. Des... | [
"THE Coreys had always had a house at Nahant, but after letting it for a\nseason or two they found they could get on without it, and sold it at\nthe son's instance, who foresaw that if things went on as they were\ngoing, the family would be straitened to the point of changing their\nmode of life altogether. They b... |
3,125 | 154_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lapham is bursting with pride when he tells his wife that Tom has come to him for a job. This completely contradicts her estimation of Tom the night before. Until now, Lapham had a definite dislike for the offensively aristocratic Coreys. He had treated the notion of Tom's affection for Irene with the contempt which su... | [
"THE exultant Colonel swung himself lightly down from his seat. \"I've\nbrought Mr. Corey with me,\" he nonchalantly explained.",
"Mrs. Lapham made their guest welcome, and the Colonel showed him to his\nroom, briefly assuring himself that there was nothing wanting there.\nThen he went to wash his own hands, car... |
3,126 | 154_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Corey returns suddenly to check on Tom and is horrified that he has been taken into Silas' business. Bromfield says that he couldn't have been stopped; Tom would pay no heed to their opinions in this matter. Bromfield realizes that Tom is energetic but not brilliant; he does not think Tom would succeed in a profes... | [
"A WEEK after she had parted with her son at Bar Harbour, Mrs. Corey\nsuddenly walked in upon her husband in their house in Boston. He was\nat breakfast, and he gave her the patronising welcome with which the\nhusband who has been staying in town all summer receives his wife when\nshe drops down upon him from the ... |
3,127 | 154_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter delves further into Silas' social position. He does not treat Tom any better than one of his clerks; yet he likes to brag of Tom's presence on his staff. He believes that Tom is a born businessman and plots to have him marry Irene. Tom visits their new home and finds that, aside from business, horses, and ... | [
"LAPHAM had the pride which comes of self-making, and he would not\nopenly lower his crest to the young fellow he had taken into his\nbusiness. He was going to be obviously master in his own place to\nevery one; and during the hours of business he did nothing to\ndistinguish Corey from the half-dozen other clerks a... |
3,128 | 154_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Silas is spending too much on additions to the house, and Mrs. Lapham objects. She is greatly relieved when he reveals he has loaned the remaining money he planned to spend on the house to Rogers, who wishes to invest in some business venture. Persis also objects to Silas' plot to match Tom Corey with Irene and has for... | [
"IT was late June, almost July, when Corey took up his life in Boston\nagain, where the summer slips away so easily. If you go out of town\nearly, it seems a very long summer when you come back in October; but\nif you stay, it passes swiftly, and, seen foreshortened in its flight,\nseems scarcely a month's length. ... |
3,129 | 154_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom, finding one of the Lapham girls quite charming, asks his father to visit Lapham. Bromfield decides to do it immediately the next morning. Considering the Laphams move to the New Land, Bromfield asks Tom if the Laphams will be a great addition to society. "No one can help feeling that they are all people of good se... | [
"COREY put off his set smile with the help of a frown, of which he first\nbecame aware after reaching home, when his father asked--",
"\"Anything gone wrong with your department of the fine arts to-day, Tom?\"",
"\"Oh no--no, sir,\" said the son, instantly relieving his brows from the\nstrain upon them, and bea... |
3,130 | 154_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Corey and her daughters, Nanny, a bookish girl, and Lilly, an artistic girl, return in the fall and begin to consider Tom's summer love affair. The possibility of having a sister-in-law or daughter-in-law who is repulsive is of the greatest irritation, because they know that once she is married to Tom, they will h... | [
"MRS. COREY returned with her daughters in the early days of October,\nhaving passed three or four weeks at Intervale after leaving Bar\nHarbour. They were somewhat browner than they were when they left town\nin June, but they were not otherwise changed. Lily, the elder of the\ngirls, had brought back a number o... |
3,131 | 154_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Corey decides that a dinner including only close friends and relatives would be large enough to make the Laphams know that they are not ashamed of them and close enough to the Corey family to make the dinner insignificant to society. She tells Tom of the modest dinner party she has planned, and he realizes that hi... | [
"HAVING distinctly given up the project of asking the Laphams to dinner,\nMrs. Corey was able to carry it out with the courage of sinners who\nhave sacrificed to virtue by frankly acknowledging its superiority to\ntheir intended transgression. She did not question but the Laphams\nwould come; and she only doubted a... |
3,132 | 154_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Laphams' arrival at the Coreys' house in an aristocratic, secluded neighborhood opens Chapter XIV. Silas' problems with gloves, which no one else wears, with the wine he drinks like the ice water served at his home table, and with the conversation he cannot follow and enter into are all brought out during the dinne... | [
"THE Coreys were one of the few old families who lingered in Bellingham\nPlace, the handsome, quiet old street which the sympathetic observer\nmust grieve to see abandoned to boarding-houses. The dwellings are\nstately and tall, and the whole place wears an air of aristocratic\nseclusion, which Mrs. Corey's father ... |
3,133 | 154_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this brief chapter, Lapham apologizes to Tom Corey the day after the dinner party for his drunken behavior. Corey is more repulsed by his apology than by his behavior of the night before. After considering the Laphams' position, however, he decides that not only the Coreys but the Laphams could be hurt by the social... | [
"LAPHAM'S strenuous face was broken up with the emotions that had forced\nhim to this question: shame, fear of the things that must have been\nthought of him, mixed with a faint hope that he might be mistaken,\nwhich died out at the shocked and pitying look in Corey's eyes.",
"\"Was I drunk?\" he repeated. \"I a... |
3,134 | 154_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is met by Penelope when he goes to Lapham's home to reveal his respect and sympathies. While waiting for Silas, they discuss the novel Tears, Idle Tears, which Penelope has recently read. "It's a famous book with the ladies," Tom says. "Did it make you cry?" "Oh, it's pretty easy to cry over a book," says Penelope;... | [
"THE Nova Scotia second-girl who answered Corey's ring said that Lapham\nhad not come home yet.",
"\"Oh,\" said the young man, hesitating on the outer step.",
"\"I guess you better come in,\" said the girl, \"I'll go and see when\nthey're expecting him.\"",
"Corey was in the mood to be swayed by any chance. ... |
3,135 | 154_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Penelope reveals the predicament to her mother the next day. Mrs. Lapham admits that Irene is not as mentally equal to Tom as Penelope, but she says she did not consider the possibility of Tom loving her older daughter. Although Penelope tried to avoid any personal contact with Tom, she admits that she tried to attract... | [
"\"WHAT's the reason the girls never get down to breakfast any more?\"\nasked Lapham, when he met his wife at the table in the morning. He had\nbeen up an hour and a half, and he spoke with the severity of a hungry\nman. \"It seems to me they don't amount to ANYthing. Here I am, at my\ntime of life, up the first... |
3,136 | 154_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Silas is told, he says that Penelope must marry Tom, if she wants him. Mrs. Lapham cannot see how this can be put into effect and believes that Silas wants to be related to the Coreys at the cost of Irene's feelings. Silas seeks the advice of Minister Sewell. He supports Silas' opinion that Tom and Penelope should... | [
"MRS. LAPHAM went away to put on her bonnet and cloak, and she was\nwaiting at the window when her husband drove up. She opened the door\nand ran down the steps. \"Don't get out; I can help myself in,\" and she\nclambered to his side, while he kept the fidgeting mare still with\nvoice and touch.",
"\"Where do ... |
3,137 | 154_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Lapham forces herself to tell Irene of the situation. Stunned, the girl gives Penelope all her love mementoes: the newspaper clipping telling of the Texas ranch, the pine shaving, and a pin like one worn by one of Tom's sisters. She goes for a long walk with her father, buys a sleeping potion, and returns home to ... | [
"\"HE talked sense, Persis,\" said Lapham gently, as he mounted to his\nwife's side in the buggy and drove slowly homeward through the dusk.",
"\"Yes, he talked sense,\" she admitted. But she added bitterly, \"I\nguess, if he had it to DO! Oh, he's right, and it's got to be done.\nThere ain't any other way for i... |
3,138 | 154_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Lapham, who has accompanied Irene, returns from Lapham without her. Silas says that he will take the girl with him on a business trip to the West. Lapham must try to sell mills Rogers has put up for collateral. He has lent Rogers too much money to protect the original loan and cannot pay his debts. "Pretty near ev... | [
"AFTER a week Mrs. Lapham returned, leaving Irene alone at the old\nhomestead in Vermont. \"She's comfortable there--as comfortable as she\ncan be anywheres, I guess,\" she said to her husband as they drove\ntogether from the station, where he had met her in obedience to her\ntelegraphic summons. \"She keeps hers... |
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