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4,315 | 2246_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens in the King's palace in Paris. The King is accompanied by Bertram, Parolles, and several young lords who are ready to leave for the Florentine wars. The King exhorts them to fight valiantly in the true French spirit; in a lighter vein, he tells them to watch out for Florentine girls. Bertram, who is no... | [
"Actus Secundus.",
"Enter the King with diuers yong Lords, taking leaue for the\nFlorentine\nwarre: Count, Rosse, and Parrolles. Florish Cornets.",
"King. Farewell yong Lords, these warlike principles\nDoe not throw from you, and you my Lords farewell:\nShare the aduice betwixt you, if both gaine, all\nThe guif... |
4,316 | 2246_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene shifts to Florence. The Duke enters accompanied by two French lords and soldiers who are discussing the imminent war. The Duke expresses his astonishment at the French King's refusal to help. The First Lord refuses to divulge the reasons for the French King's refusal, but the Second Lord quips that the young... | [
"Actus Tertius.",
"Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two Frenchmen, with a\ntroope of\nSouldiers.",
"Duke. So that from point to point, now haue you heard\nThe fundamentall reasons of this warre,\nWhose great decision hath much blood let forth\nAnd more thirsts after",
"1.Lord. Holy seemes the quarrel... |
4,317 | 2246_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene moves to the widow's house in Florence. Helena is trying to convince the widow that she is Bertram's wife. She is exasperated and says that she does not know how else to assure the widow that she is telling the truth. The widow is suspicious and does not want to get involved in Helena's plan to win Bertram b... | [
"Actus Quartus.",
"Enter one of the Frenchmen, with fiue or sixe other souldiers in\nambush.",
"Lord E. He can come no other way but by this hedge\ncorner: when you sallie vpon him, speake what terrible\nLanguage you will: though you vnderstand it not your\nselues, no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand... |
4,318 | 2246_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helena arrives in Marseilles with the widow, Diana, and two attendants. Again, she promises to repay them handsomely for their efforts on her behalf. A gentleman appears on the street, and Helena asks for directions to the King, only to discover that the King has already left for Paris. At first the party of women are ... | [
"Actus Quintus.",
"Enter Hellen, Widdow, and Diana, with two Attendants.",
"Hel. But this exceeding posting day and night,\nMust wear your spirits low, we cannot helpe it:\nBut since you haue made the daies and nights as one,\nTo weare your gentle limbes in my affayres,\nBe bold you do so grow in my requitall,\... |
4,314 | 2246_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the court of Count Rossillion, the Countess is morning her husband, who recently died, and sending off her son to the King of France as a ward. Bertram, her son and therefore the new count, does not want to go but knows that he must. Lafew, a minister, and Helena, a young lady who serves the countess, are also prese... | [
"Actus primus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena,\nLord\nLafew, all in blacke.",
"Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second\nhusband",
"Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my\nfathers death anew; but I must attend his maiesties\ncommand, to whom I a... |
4,316 | 2246_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke of Florence is disappointed that the King of France does not offer him any official aid in his war | [
"Actus Tertius.",
"Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two Frenchmen, with a\ntroope of\nSouldiers.",
"Duke. So that from point to point, now haue you heard\nThe fundamentall reasons of this warre,\nWhose great decision hath much blood let forth\nAnd more thirsts after",
"1.Lord. Holy seemes the quarrel... |
4,318 | 2246_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helena, the Widow, and Diana arrive at the King's palace in Marseille and approach a gentleman there asking to see the King. The gentleman tells her that the King when to Rossillion, and Helena begs that he deliver a message there for her since he will make it there before her. He agrees and they all leave to part imme... | [
"Actus Quintus.",
"Enter Hellen, Widdow, and Diana, with two Attendants.",
"Hel. But this exceeding posting day and night,\nMust wear your spirits low, we cannot helpe it:\nBut since you haue made the daies and nights as one,\nTo weare your gentle limbes in my affayres,\nBe bold you do so grow in my requitall,\... |
4,319 | 2527_book_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a very short note from the editor encouraging the reader to sympathize with Werther's tragic fate, The Sorrows of Young Werther begins with Werther in an ebullient mood, having escaped a young woman named Leonora, whom he implies was madly in love with him. Werther has retreated to a quiet country setting in Germ... | [
"BOOK I",
"MAY 4.",
"How happy I am that I am gone! My dear friend, what a thing is the heart\nof man! To leave you, from whom I have been inseparable, whom I love\nso dearly, and yet to feel happy! I know you will forgive me. Have not\nother attachments been specially appointed by fate to torment a head\nlike ... |
4,320 | 2062_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens with a preface outlining the liberties that Dryden, the playwright, will take with the familiar story of Antony and Cleopatra. Act 1, Scene 1 takes place in the Temple of Isis, where Serapion and Myris, priests of Isis, are discussing recent portents of doom, most notably the flooding of the Nile, whirlw... | [
"Act I Scene I.--The Temple of Isis",
"Enter SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests of Isis",
"SERAPION. Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent,\n That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile\n Flowed ere the wonted season, with a torrent\n So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce,\n That the wild deluge overt... |
4,321 | 2062_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleopatra, Iras, and Alexas are in her chamber, where Cleopatra is mourning the fact that Antony plans to go with Ventidius and leave her. "He goes to fight for you," Alexas says, to comfort her, but she does not buy it. She describes how her love for Antony has rendered her somewhat insane, saying, "My love's a noble ... | [
"Act II Scene I",
"Enter CLEOPATRA, IRAS, and ALEXAS",
"CLEOPATRA. What shall I do, or whither shall I turn?\n Ventidius has o'ercome, and he will go.",
"ALEXAS. He goes to fight for you.",
"CLEOPATRA. Then he would see me, ere he went to fight:\n Flatter me not: If once he goes, he's lost,\n A... |
4,322 | 2062_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleopatra, Charmion, Iras, and Alexas enter from one door. Antony and the Romans enter from another. Trumpets sound on Antony's side, which are answered by timbrels on Cleopatra's. Charmion and Iras are holding a laurel wreath, and there an Egyptian dance and ceremony are performed. At the end, Cleopatra puts a crown o... | [
"Act III Scene I",
"At one door enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMION, IRAS, and ALEXAS,\n a Train of EGYPTIANS: at the other ANTONY and ROMANS.\n The entrance on both sides is prepared by music; the\n trumpets first sounding on Antony's part: then answered\n by timbrels, etc., on CLEOPATRA'S.... |
4,323 | 2062_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleopatra approaches Dolabella and he flatters her. Cleopatra replies, "You flatter me./But, 'tis your nation's vice: All of your country/Are flatterers, and all false." As Dolabella begins to give her the news, she begins to seduce him. "Some men are constant," Dolabella says, alluding to the fact that he is steadfast... | [
"Act IV Scene I",
"Enter ANTONY and DOLABELLA",
"DOLABELLA. Why would you shift it from yourself on me?\n Can you not tell her, you must part?",
"ANTONY. I cannot.\n I could pull out an eye, and bid it go,\n And t'other should not weep. O Dolabella,\n How many deaths are in this word, DEPART!\... |
4,324 | 2062_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleopatra, Charmion, and Iras enter, and Cleopatra bemoans how hard it has been to keep Antony. She pulls out a dagger, but Charmion and Iras prevent her from killing herself. When Alexas enters, Cleopatra is angry at him, and he admits that he deserves this treatment. They discuss the fact that Octavia has left and An... | [
"Act V Scene I",
"Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMION, and IRAS",
"CHARMION. Be juster, Heaven; such virtue punished thus,\n Will make us think that chance rules all above,\n And shuffles, with a random hand, the lots,\n Which man is forced to draw.",
"CLEOPATRA. I could tear out these eyes, that gained his... |
4,325 | 3790_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Britomart and her son Stephen sit down to discuss the family's finances. Although Lady Brit seems to have plenty of confidence in her own opinions, she claims she wants Stephen's help working through a tricky issue. Lady Brit's two daughters--Sarah and Barbara--are now engaged, and she is concerned about their abi... | [
"ACT I",
"It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in\nLady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and\ncomfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in\ndark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present]\nwould have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing... |
4,326 | 3790_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The second act picks up at the yard at the Salvation Army, where a man and a woman are sitting there chatting. Their names are "Snobby" Price and "Rummy" Mitchens. Then Jenny, a young girl who works at the Army, and a man named Peter Shirley walk in. She's trying to cheer Shirley up and promising him something to eat. ... | [
"ACT II",
"The yard of the West Ham shelter of the Salvation Army is a cold\nplace on a January morning. The building itself, an old\nwarehouse, is newly whitewashed. Its gabled end projects into the\nyard in the middle, with a door on the ground floor, and another\nin the loft above it without any balcony or lad... |
4,327 | 3790_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the following day and Barbara, Sarah, and Lady Brit are hanging out in the library at Lady Brit's house. Charles comes in and is surprised to find Barbara there, lounging around in fine clothes . Dolly arrives in rough shape--it seems he was up and out late drinking with Andrew. Once everyone gets over their shock... | [
"ACT III",
"Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in\nWilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the\nwindow. Barbara, in ordinary dresss, pale and brooding, is on the\nsettee. Charley Lomax enters. Coming forward between the settee\nand the writing table, he starts on seeing B... |
4,325 | 3790_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play begins when the estranged wife of Andrew Undershaft, Lady Britomart, calls Stephen, her son, in for a conference. Lady Britomart is so domineering and Stephen is so intimidated that he is virtually speechless. She immediately corrects his behavior and reminds him that he is now twenty-four years old and thus a... | [
"ACT I",
"It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in\nLady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and\ncomfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in\ndark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present]\nwould have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing... |
4,326 | 3790_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II takes place in the Salvation Army Shelter, an old warehouse which has recently been whitewashed. Two people are seen seated in the shelter; one is a man quite "capable of anything in reason except honesty," whose name is Snobby Price. The other is a woman named Rummy Mitchens, who looks sixty due to the severity... | [
"ACT II",
"The yard of the West Ham shelter of the Salvation Army is a cold\nplace on a January morning. The building itself, an old\nwarehouse, is newly whitewashed. Its gabled end projects into the\nyard in the middle, with a door on the ground floor, and another\nin the loft above it without any balcony or lad... |
4,327 | 3790_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This act opens the next morning in Lady Britomart's library, and we are immediately astonished to see Major Barbara dressed not in her Salvation Army uniform but in an "ordinary fashionable dress." Charles Lomax, trying to console Barbara, makes an inopportune remark about there being "a certain amount of tosh about th... | [
"ACT III",
"Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in\nWilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the\nwindow. Barbara, in ordinary dresss, pale and brooding, is on the\nsettee. Charley Lomax enters. Coming forward between the settee\nand the writing table, he starts on seeing B... |
4,325 | 3790_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is after dinner in the library of Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in January 1906. The high-tempered Lady Britomart sits at her writing table. Her son, Stephen, a grave young man who takes himself very seriously and is somewhat in awe of his mother, enters the stage. He asks his mother why she has called him. She ... | [
"ACT I",
"It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in\nLady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and\ncomfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in\ndark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present]\nwould have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing... |
4,326 | 3790_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a cold January morning in the West Ham shelter of the Salvation Army. The cold has stung two diners at the lunch table into "vivacity"--the sly, young Snobby Price and hard-worn, middle-aged Rummy Mitchens. They introduce themselves to each other. Price remarks that they share the misfortune of having unpronounce... | [
"ACT II",
"The yard of the West Ham shelter of the Salvation Army is a cold\nplace on a January morning. The building itself, an old\nwarehouse, is newly whitewashed. Its gabled end projects into the\nyard in the middle, with a door on the ground floor, and another\nin the loft above it without any balcony or lad... |
4,327 | 3790_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day at lunch Lady Britomart appears writing in her library. Sarah sits reading near the window; Barbara, in ordinary fashionable dress, broods on the settee. Today the family plans to visit Undershaft's cannon works. Lomax enters and bluntly expresses his surprise at Barbara being out of uniform. Though sympat... | [
"ACT III",
"Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in\nWilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the\nwindow. Barbara, in ordinary dresss, pale and brooding, is on the\nsettee. Charley Lomax enters. Coming forward between the settee\nand the writing table, he starts on seeing B... |
4,325 | 3790_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the first Act, Lady Britomart, a woman of fifty, is introduced and described. The daughter of the Earl of Stevenage, she has always moved in aristocratic circles; in fact, she does not know anything beyond the upper class society in which she lives. Although she is well read and efficient, she is most known for her ... | [
"ACT I",
"It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in\nLady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and\ncomfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in\ndark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present]\nwould have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing... |
4,326 | 3790_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this Act, the scene of action shifts to the Salvation Army Shelter in West Ham, where Barbara serves as a Major. Jenny, a sincere girl of eighteen, works at the shelter and tries to help people in distress. Snobby Price and Ramola Mitchens are introduced as people who have joined the Salvation Army for reasons other... | [
"ACT II",
"The yard of the West Ham shelter of the Salvation Army is a cold\nplace on a January morning. The building itself, an old\nwarehouse, is newly whitewashed. Its gabled end projects into the\nyard in the middle, with a door on the ground floor, and another\nin the loft above it without any balcony or lad... |
4,327 | 3790_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this act, the setting shifts back to Lady Britomart's mansion. Barbara is sitting near the window of the living room, in a pensive mood. She is no longer dressed in her Salvation Army uniform. Charles Lomax walks in and tries to make conversation with her. Lady Britomart, who is at her writing table, tells him sharp... | [
"ACT III",
"Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in\nWilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the\nwindow. Barbara, in ordinary dresss, pale and brooding, is on the\nsettee. Charley Lomax enters. Coming forward between the settee\nand the writing table, he starts on seeing B... |
4,328 | 901_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prologue The play opens with a speech delivered by the soul of Machevil. Although the world believes he is dead, Machevil declares that his soul flew to France and inhabited the body of the Duke of Guise. Since the Duke himself is now dead, the seemingly immortal Machevil has arrived from France "to view this land and ... | [
"ACT I.\n[16]",
"BARABAS discovered in his counting-house, with heaps\n of gold before him.",
"BARABAS. So that of thus much that return was made;\n And of the third part of the Persian ships\n There was the venture summ'd and satisfied. As for those Samnites, [17] and the men of Uz,\n That... |
4,329 | 901_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Night has fallen. Barabas enters with a light in hand, lamenting the events that have befallen him. Just as he prays to God to safely direct his daughter, on the model of God directing Moses and the Israelites through the wilderness, Abigall enters above with bags of gold and jewels. Faintly able to perceive her, Barab... | [
"ACT II.",
"Enter BARABAS, with a light. [53]",
"BARABAS. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, [54]\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings,\n Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas\n With fata... |
4,330 | 901_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The courtesan Bellamira enters, complaining about the lack of suitors ever since Malta closed itself to prepare for the arrival of the Turkish fleet. She remarks that only Pilia-Borza still comes to visit her, whereupon he enters bringing a bag of silver. He has stolen it from Barabas's counting house--and hopes to ste... | [
"ACT III.",
"Enter BELLAMIRA. [91]",
"BELLAMIRA. Since this town was besieg'd, my gain grows cold:\n The time has been, that but for one bare night\n A hundred ducats have been freely given;\n But now against my will I must be chaste:\n And yet I know my beauty doth not fail.\n ]From Venice ... |
4,331 | 901_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Barabas and Ithamore gloat over their success in poisoning the nuns. The Jew expresses particular satisfaction over his daughter's death. Friar Jacomo and Barnardine enter and, after a series of interrupted exchanges, intimate that they know of Barabas's hand in the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick. Barabas realizes that... | [
"ACT IV.",
"Enter BARABAS [125] and ITHAMORE. Bells within.",
"BARABAS. There is no music to [126] a Christian's knell:\n How sweet the bells ring, now the nuns are dead,\n That sound at other times like tinkers' pans!\n I was afraid the poison had not wrought,\n Or, though it wrought, it would... |
4,332 | 901_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ferneze enters with knights and Martin del Bosco, fortifying Malta against the Turkish invasion to come. Bellamira enters with Pilia-Borza and informs Ferneze that it was Barabas who killed Lodowick. Bellamira also declares that Barabas strangled a friar and poisoned the nuns, including his own daughter. Ferneze asks f... | [
"ACT V.",
"Enter FERNEZE, [179] KNIGHTS, MARTIN DEL BOSCO, and OFFICERS.",
"FERNEZE. Now, gentlemen, betake you to your arms,\n And see that Malta be well fortified;\n And it behoves you to be resolute;\n For Calymath, having hover'd here so long,\n Will win the town, or die before the walls.",
... |
4,328 | 901_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prologue The narrator Machevill introduces the play. The renowned author on statecraft says that although everyone thinks Machevill is dead, his soul has crossed the Alps to "frolic"--cause mischief--with friends in England. Machevill mentions the Duke of Guise's death in passing to suggest that political consideration... | [
"ACT I.\n[16]",
"BARABAS discovered in his counting-house, with heaps\n of gold before him.",
"BARABAS. So that of thus much that return was made;\n And of the third part of the Persian ships\n There was the venture summ'd and satisfied. As for those Samnites, [17] and the men of Uz,\n That... |
4,329 | 901_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II opens with Barabas again bemoaning the loss of his money as he approaches what used to be his mansion in the dead of night. He compares himself to a man close to death or a soldier who is scarred with the memory of his "former riches. " The protagonist's anguish is alleviated somewhat by Abigail, who appears abo... | [
"ACT II.",
"Enter BARABAS, with a light. [53]",
"BARABAS. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, [54]\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings,\n Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas\n With fata... |
4,330 | 901_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene introduces the courtesan Bellamira and her pimp Pilia-Borza. While the prostitute complains about the lack of business after the Turkish blockade of Malta , Pilia-Borza appears and throws her a moneybag of silver. He explains how he entered Barabas's counting house at night, was disrupted by a noise, and ran... | [
"ACT III.",
"Enter BELLAMIRA. [91]",
"BELLAMIRA. Since this town was besieg'd, my gain grows cold:\n The time has been, that but for one bare night\n A hundred ducats have been freely given;\n But now against my will I must be chaste:\n And yet I know my beauty doth not fail.\n ]From Venice ... |
4,331 | 901_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act IV begins with Barabas congratulating himself on the success of his plan to poison the nuns. Ithamore fears that they will be caught, but Barabas reminds him that only the two of them know they are to blame for the deed. The merchant says that he will cut the slave's throat if he confesses to anyone. Barabas admits... | [
"ACT IV.",
"Enter BARABAS [125] and ITHAMORE. Bells within.",
"BARABAS. There is no music to [126] a Christian's knell:\n How sweet the bells ring, now the nuns are dead,\n That sound at other times like tinkers' pans!\n I was afraid the poison had not wrought,\n Or, though it wrought, it would... |
4,332 | 901_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ferneze enters, instructing his soldiers to fortify the town in the face of an impending Turkish assault. Bellamira and Pilia-Borza appear and reveal Barabas's crimes to the governor. Ferneze orders that the protagonist be brought to him, along with Ithamore, who will provide proof of Barabas's crimes. When the two men... | [
"ACT V.",
"Enter FERNEZE, [179] KNIGHTS, MARTIN DEL BOSCO, and OFFICERS.",
"FERNEZE. Now, gentlemen, betake you to your arms,\n And see that Malta be well fortified;\n And it behoves you to be resolute;\n For Calymath, having hover'd here so long,\n Will win the town, or die before the walls.",
... |
4,333 | 12431_chapters_1-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eliza Wharton writes to Lucy Freeman, saying she is happy to leave her parents' roof. She spent time caring for her betrothed, Mr. Haly, on his deathbed, and although she esteemed the man, she did not love him. She admires the way he gracefully bid goodbye to the world, and hopes she can learn something from his behavi... | [
"LETTER I.",
"TO MISS LUCY FREEMAN.",
"NEW HAVEN",
"An unusual sensation possesses my breast--a sensation which I once\nthought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is\n_pleasure_, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof. Could\nyou have believed that the darling child of an indulge... |
4,334 | 12431_chapters_20-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eliza writes to her mother, saying she thinks it can be confusing to hear from so many people but a mother always provides "disinterested affection" . She desperately wants her mother's advice. She does not want to enter the life of a clergyman's wife; there seem to be other lives that may be more to her taste. Her mot... | [
"LETTER XX.",
"TO MRS. M. WHARTON.",
"NEW HAVEN.",
"From the conversation of the polite, the sedate, the engaging, and the gay,--from corresponding with the learned, the sentimental, and the refined,--my heart and my pen turn with ardor and alacrity to a tender and affectionate parent, the faithful guardian a... |
4,335 | 12431_chapters_37-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sanford exults to Charles that Eliza no longer slights him. He wishes he could marry her but knows he cannot. His goal is to break her and Mr. Boyer up though. He is thinking about marrying Miss Laurence but hopes she does not think she can reform him or confine him. Eliza writes to her mother of how she enjoys her tim... | [
"LETTER XXXVII.",
"TO MR. CHARLES DEIGHTON.",
"HARTFORD.",
"Dear Charles: My hopes begin to revive. I am again permitted to\nassociate with my Eliza--invited to the same entertainment. She does not\nrefuse to join with me in the mazy dance, and partake the scenes of\nfestive mirth. Nay, more; she allows me to... |
4,336 | 12431_chapters_48-64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eliza writes to Lucy of her embarrassment over writing to Mr. Boyer. Even though he was not cruel, she has "given him the power of triumphing in my distress" . She feels her bloom is lessening and she is not comforted by her mother's Christian principles. She has to pretend to be happy. She asks if their friend Julia G... | [
"LETTER XLVIII.",
"TO MRS. LUCY SUMNER.",
"HARTFORD.",
"Health, placid serenity, and every domestic pleasure are the lot of my\nfriend; while I, who once possessed the means of each, and the capacity\nof tasting them, have been tossed upon the waves of folly, till I am\nshipwrecked on the shoals of despair.",... |
4,337 | 12431_chapters_65-74 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sanford exults that he has finally possessed Eliza completely . He says it was a long siege and he had to try every trick possible, but he has succeeded. However, "a miraculous accident, has taken place, which must soon expose our amour" ; it seems she is pregnant. His own wife just bore a child but it was dead. He doe... | [
"LETTER LXV.",
"TO MR. CHARLES DEIGHTON.",
"HARTFORD.",
"Good news, Charles, good news! I have arrived to the utmost bounds of my\nwishes--the full possession of my adorable Eliza. I have heard a\nquotation from a certain book, but what book it was I have forgotten, if\nI ever knew. No matter for that; the qu... |
4,338 | 61_chapter_1:_bourgeois_and_proletarians | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another famous line: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" . In other words, rich people, poor or enslaved people, and those in the middle have been duking it out ever since society began. These fights between oppressor and oppressed--whether during the Roman Empire, feudal Eu... | [
"I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS",
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history\nof class struggles.",
"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,\nguild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed,\nstood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an\nuninte... |
4,339 | 61_chapter_2:_proletarians_and_communists | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Okay here we go. Now Marx talks about the relationship between proletarians and communists, meaning the Communist League who commissioned him to write the Manifesto. The communists have no interests apart from the proletariat, he says. They point out the common interests of the entire proletariat regardless of country,... | [
"II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS",
"In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a\nwhole?",
"The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other\nworking-class parties.",
"They have no interests separate and apart from those of the\nproletariat as a whole.",
"They do not set up... |
4,340 | 61_chapter_3:_socialist_and_communist_literature | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this section, Marx clarifies how his and the Communist League's communism differs from the socialism or communism of others. First, he takes on the aristocrats who advocated for feudal socialism. Basically, as feudalism was coming to an end, the aristocrats were threatened by the rise of the bourgeoisie. So the aris... | [
"III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE",
"1. REACTIONARY SOCIALISM",
"A. Feudal Socialism",
"Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the\naristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against\nmodern bourgeois society. In the French revolution of July 1830,\nand in the Engli... |
4,341 | 61_chapter_4:_position_of_the_communists_in_relation_to_the_various_existing_opposition_parties | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Final section! Marx starts by listing the parties the Communist League supports in various countries as a matter of tactics, but he emphasizes that they always reserve the right to criticize any party and will always bring the question of abolishing property to the forefront. The communists even support the bourgeoisie... | [
"IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES",
"Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the\nexisting working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England\nand the Agrarian Reformers in America.",
"The Communists fight for the attainment of the ... |
4,342 | 885_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens at a party at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square, London. The party exemplifies much of the play's tendency towards quick and witty conversation. The Chiltern home is regal and their guests are impeccably dressed. Much of the action takes place in the Chiltern home's Octagonal room. Lady Chi... | [
"FIRST ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square_.",
"[_The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests_. _At the top of\nthe staircase stands_ LADY CHILTERN, _a woman of grave Greek beauty_,\n_about twenty-seven years of age_. _She receives the guests as they c... |
4,343 | 885_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The act begins with Sir Robert and Lord Goring in the Chiltern house discussing how to manage the crisis put in action the preceding night. Goring appears somewhat unsettled by Chiltern's moral failure and urges him to tell his wife the truth about his past as soon as possible. Robert, who kept the secret to maintain h... | [
"SECOND ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Morning-room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house_.",
"[LORD GORING, _dressed in the height of fashion_, _is lounging in an\narmchair_. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN _is standing in front of the fireplace_.\n_He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress_.\n_As the scene progres... |
4,344 | 885_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The third act opens in Lord Goring's house while he prepares to go out for the evening. There is a description of the room and of Phipps the butler who Wilde describes as the "dominance of form." In the stage notes, Phipps is referred to as the "ideal butler," and his main distinction is his impassivity. Lord Goring en... | [
"THIRD ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The Library in Lord Goring's house_. _An Adam room_. _On the right is\nthe door leading into the hall_. _On the left_, _the door of the\nsmoking-room_. _A pair of folding doors at the back open into the\ndrawing-room_. _The fire is lit_. _Phipps_, _the butler_, _is arranging\nsome ... |
4,345 | 885_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is the same as the opening of Act II. Lord Goring stands in front of the fireplace in Sir Robert's morning room. Summoned by a bell, the footman enters and tells Lord Goring Mabel has just returned from riding, Lady Chiltern is elsewhere in the house, and Lord Caversham is waiting for him in the library. Lord... | [
"FOURTH ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Same as Act II_.",
"[LORD GORING _is standing by the fireplace with his hands in his\npockets_. _He is looking rather bored_.]",
"LORD GORING. [_Pulls out his watch_, _inspects it_, _and rings the\nbell_.] It is a great nuisance. I can't find any one in this house to\ntalk to. ... |
4,342 | 885_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The stage directions tell us we're in a large, brilliantly lit room in posh Grosvenor Square. It's a party. It's Lady Chiltern's house, so she greets the guests. She's 27, beautiful, and deathly serious. The Chilterns are clearly very well off: there's a big chandelier, an antique French tapestry depicting "The Triumph... | [
"FIRST ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square_.",
"[_The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests_. _At the top of\nthe staircase stands_ LADY CHILTERN, _a woman of grave Greek beauty_,\n_about twenty-seven years of age_. _She receives the guests as they c... |
4,343 | 885_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Goring and Sir Robert are in Sir Robert's morning room. Lord Goring, dressed to the nines, is chilling in an armchair; Sir Robert is pacing up and down nervously. Sir Robert has just confessed his conundrum to Lord Goring. Lord Goring thinks he should have told Lady Chiltern the truth right away. You can't hide th... | [
"SECOND ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Morning-room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house_.",
"[LORD GORING, _dressed in the height of fashion_, _is lounging in an\narmchair_. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN _is standing in front of the fireplace_.\n_He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress_.\n_As the scene progres... |
4,344 | 885_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're in the library of Lord Goring's house; it's a neoclassical room with a roaring fireplace. There are lots of doors: one on the right leading into the hall; one on the left leading into the smoking-room; and a pair of folding doors at the back of the library that lead into the drawing-room. Phipps, Lord Goring's bu... | [
"THIRD ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The Library in Lord Goring's house_. _An Adam room_. _On the right is\nthe door leading into the hall_. _On the left_, _the door of the\nsmoking-room_. _A pair of folding doors at the back open into the\ndrawing-room_. _The fire is lit_. _Phipps_, _the butler_, _is arranging\nsome ... |
4,345 | 885_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is the same as Act 2: Sir Robert's morning room. Lord Goring is by the fireplace, bored. He can't find anyone to talk to, even though he has all this new information. Where is everyone? Thankfully the servant James has some answers. Sir Robert's still at the office; Lady Chiltern hasn't left her room; but M... | [
"FOURTH ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Same as Act II_.",
"[LORD GORING _is standing by the fireplace with his hands in his\npockets_. _He is looking rather bored_.]",
"LORD GORING. [_Pulls out his watch_, _inspects it_, _and rings the\nbell_.] It is a great nuisance. I can't find any one in this house to\ntalk to. ... |
4,342 | 885_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An Ideal Husband is at times a difficult play to summarize as much of its "plot" happens through rapid-fire, epigrammatic dialogue. Indeed, the pace and subtlety of these turns-of-phrase are what make plot so easy to miss. When summarizing the story, one finds oneself paraphrasing the repartee . To do so, of course, is... | [
"FIRST ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square_.",
"[_The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests_. _At the top of\nthe staircase stands_ LADY CHILTERN, _a woman of grave Greek beauty_,\n_about twenty-seven years of age_. _She receives the guests as they c... |
4,343 | 885_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II begins in Sir Robert's morning room with Lord Goring in the midst of advising him on a plan of action. He insists that Sir Robert should have confessed to his wife long ago and promises to talk to her about her unyielding morals. Throughout the scene, Goring will--in a marked shift in his apparently flippant ton... | [
"SECOND ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Morning-room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house_.",
"[LORD GORING, _dressed in the height of fashion_, _is lounging in an\narmchair_. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN _is standing in front of the fireplace_.\n_He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress_.\n_As the scene progres... |
4,344 | 885_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act III opens in Lord Goring's library with an impeccably dressed Goring and his impassive servant Phipps, named in the stage notes as the ideal butler. A short exchange ensues, in which Goring, trying on a new buttonhole, delivers a series of epigrams regarding fashion, vulgarity, falsehood, and self-love to the yes-s... | [
"THIRD ACT",
"SCENE",
"_The Library in Lord Goring's house_. _An Adam room_. _On the right is\nthe door leading into the hall_. _On the left_, _the door of the\nsmoking-room_. _A pair of folding doors at the back open into the\ndrawing-room_. _The fire is lit_. _Phipps_, _the butler_, _is arranging\nsome ... |
4,345 | 885_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act IV returns us to Sir Robert's morning room with Lord Goring standing alone and looking bored. He rings the bell, and the footman informs him of his friends' whereabouts: Lady Chiltern has yet to leave the room, Mabel has returned from riding, and Lord Caversham has been waiting for Sir Robert in the library. Cavers... | [
"FOURTH ACT",
"SCENE",
"_Same as Act II_.",
"[LORD GORING _is standing by the fireplace with his hands in his\npockets_. _He is looking rather bored_.]",
"LORD GORING. [_Pulls out his watch_, _inspects it_, _and rings the\nbell_.] It is a great nuisance. I can't find any one in this house to\ntalk to. ... |
4,346 | 1257_chapter_1:_the_three_presents_of_d'artagnan_the_elder | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We start our tale with a historical info-dump. It's the first Monday of April, 1625, and we're in a small town experiencing a lot of pandemonium. This kind of activity is apparently quite usual, and we get a quick overview of the types of conflict common at this point in history: nobles vs. nobles, King vs. Cardinal, S... | [
"1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER",
"On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of\nMeung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to\nbe in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made\na second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing... |
4,347 | 1257_chapter_2:_the_antechamber_of_m._de_treville | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We start this chapter with some background on M. de Treville. He embodies the classic story of a self-made man: he was once a small town boy with big dreams who showed up in the big city with barely a nickel in his pocket... and worked his way up to being one of the country's head honchos. Not only is Treville good wit... | [
"2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE",
"M de Troisville, as his family was still called in Gascony, or M. de\nTreville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really\ncommenced life as d'Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in\nhis pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intellig... |
4,348 | 1257_chapter_3:_the_audience | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan shows up to talk to M. de Treville, who smiles upon seeing the young Gascon. Before they start talking, however, Treville calls for Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Porthos and Aramis immediately hustle over and everyone outside the room starts gossiping about the summons. Treville chews them out. It turns out th... | [
"3 THE AUDIENCE",
"M de Treville was at the moment in rather ill-humor, nevertheless he\nsaluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground; and he\nsmiled on receiving d'Artagnan's response, the Bearnese accent of which\nrecalled to him at the same time his youth and his country--a double\nremembrance ... |
4,349 | 1257_chapter_4:_the_shoulder_of_athos,_the_baldric_of_porthos,_and_the_handkerchief_of_aramis | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan speeds out of Treville's room and heads for the staircase. In his hurry, he shoves past a Musketeer, apologizes quickly, and continues running. The Musketeer gets all huffy and says that the apology is insufficient. D'Artagnan takes a good look at the man and recognizes Athos. The two argue a bit. Both being... | [
"4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS",
"D'Artagnan, in a state of fury, crossed the antechamber at three bounds,\nand was darting toward the stairs, which he reckoned upon descending\nfour at a time, when, in his heedless course, he ran head foremost\nagainst a Musketeer... |
4,350 | 1257_chapter_5:_the_king's_musketeers_and_the_cardinal's_guards | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Historical Context Lesson: When dueling, you always bring along a "second." This person is someone you trust enough to witness the fight, ensure that it's fair, and call for a doctor in case you start bleeding. Being a newbie in town, D'Artagnan has no one he can ask to serve as his second. On his way to meet Athos, he... | [
"5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS",
"D'Artagnan was acquainted with nobody in Paris. He went therefore to his\nappointment with Athos without a second, determined to be satisfied with\nthose his adversary should choose. Besides, his intention was formed to\nmake the brave Musketeer all suitable a... |
4,351 | 1257_chapter_6:_his_majesty_king_louis_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Treville pretends to be very ashamed of his Musketeers in public, but he congratulates them in private. It's important that he tell the King his version of events, so that evening he heads to the Louvre. That evening, the King is gambling. And winning, so he's happy. He spies Treville and tells him to start controlling... | [
"6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII",
"This affair made a great noise. M. de Treville scolded his Musketeers in\npublic, and congratulated them in private; but as no time was to be lost\nin gaining the king, M. de Treville hastened to report himself at the\nLouvre. It was already too late. The king was closeted with t... |
4,352 | 1257_chapter_7:_the_interior_of_"the_musketeers" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan asks his friends what he should do with the money. Athos suggests a good meal, Porthos suggests a good servant, and Aramis suggests getting a girlfriend. The friends have a good meal and they're waited on by a good servant named Planchet, who works for Porthos. Since Porthos already has got a lackey named Mo... | [
"7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS",
"When d'Artagnan was out of the Louvre, and consulted his friends upon\nthe use he had best make of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos\nadvised him to order a good repast at the Pomme-de-Pin, Porthos to\nengage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistre... |
4,353 | 1257_chapter_8:_concerning_a_court_intrigue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King's forty pistoles come to an end, and Athos supports everyone for a while. Then Porthos supports the four friends, then Aramis. Then Porthos, Aramis, and Athos hit up Treville for some advances on their pay. D'Artagnan, being a lowly Guard, doesn't get paid at all. When they start starving, they scrape together... | [
"8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE",
"In the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII, like all other\nthings of this world, after having had a beginning had an end, and after\nthis end our four companions began to be somewhat embarrassed. At first,\nAthos supported the association for a time with his own mean... |
4,354 | 1257_chapter_9:_d'artagnan_shows_himself | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Man from Meung disappeared, as usual. Finally, D'Artagnan gives up the search and goes home. He finds Porthos, Aramis, and Athos waiting for him. They debate whether this mystery man from Meung is real or a ghost. Before he gives his friends the details, D'Artagnan asks Planchet to get some fine wine from Bonacieux... | [
"9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF",
"As Athos and Porthos had foreseen, at the expiration of a half hour,\nd'Artagnan returned. He had again missed his man, who had disappeared as\nif by enchantment. D'Artagnan had run, sword in hand, through all the\nneighboring streets, but had found nobody resembling the man he soug... |
4,355 | 1257_chapter_10:_a_mousetrap_in_the_seventeenth_century | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator gives the definition of a mousetrap. When someone is arrested, the Guards keep it a secret and lie in wait. When unsuspecting people visit the man who was arrested, they're grabbed and held for interrogation. After two or three days, the Guards have everyone who associates with the prisoner. Bonacieux's ap... | [
"10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY",
"The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as\nsocieties, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police\ninvented mousetraps.",
"As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de\nJerusalem, and as it is fifteen... |
4,356 | 1257_chapter_11:_in_which_the_plot_thickens | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan takes the scenic route home and dreams the whole time of the pretty Madame Bonacieux. He draws closer to Aramis's house when he spots the figure of a woman, heavily cloaked. The two of them are going in the same direction. The woman heads to Aramis's house, but instead of going inside, she taps on the window... | [
"11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS",
"His visit to M. de Treville being paid, the pensive d'Artagnan took the\nlongest way homeward.",
"On what was d'Artagnan thinking, that he strayed thus from his path,\ngazing at the stars of heaven, and sometimes sighing, sometimes smiling?",
"He was thinking of Mme. Bonacieu... |
4,357 | 1257_chapter_12:_george_villiers,_duke_of_buckingham | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame Bonacieux leads the Duke down various passages, finally ending up in a room where she leaves him, and locks the door behind her. Still, the Duke of Buckingham is fearless. He is rash and loves adventure, so even after discovering that the letter from Queen Anne was a hoax to lure him , he insists on seeing her a... | [
"12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM",
"Mme. Bonacieux and the duke entered the Louvre without difficulty. Mme.\nBonacieux was known to belong to the queen; the duke wore the uniform of\nthe Musketeers of M. de Treville, who, as we have said, were that\nevening on guard. Besides, Germain was in the interests o... |
4,358 | 1257_chapter_13:_monsieur_bonacieux | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After he is arrested, Monsieur Bonacieux is taken straight to the Bastille . He's taken into a scary interrogation room. The commissary is a highly unattractive man, but he looks intelligent. He asks for Bonacieux's information. Bonacieux is fifty-one , a retired mercer , and lived at Rue des Fossoyeurs, No. 14. The co... | [
"13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX",
"There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage\nconcerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have\nappeared to take but very little notice. This personage was M.\nBonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues\nwhich entangled... |
4,359 | 1257_chapter_14:_the_man_of_meung | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It turns out the carriage had stopped only because a bunch of people were rubbernecking a corpse. Monsieur Bonacieux is still alive. Two guards grab Bonacieux out of the carriage and drag him into a building and upstairs. He quiets down after a time and has a look around--since the furnishings are really quite beautifu... | [
"14 THE MAN OF MEUNG",
"The crowd was caused, not by the expectation of a man to be hanged, but\nby the contemplation of a man who was hanged.",
"The carriage, which had been stopped for a minute, resumed its way,\npassed through the crowd, threaded the Rue St. Honore, turned into the\nRue des Bons Enfants, and... |
4,360 | 1257_chapter_15:_men_of_the_robe_and_men_of_the_sword | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Several days pass and Athos is still missing. D'Artagnan and Porthos fill Treville in on what's happened. Treville instantly tries to find out where Athos is being held. That would be the Fort l'Eveque. He's been subjected to all the same interrogations as Bonacieux. He handles himself well in these interrogations, how... | [
"15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD",
"On the day after these events had taken place, Athos not having\nreappeared, M. de Treville was informed by d'Artagnan and Porthos of the\ncircumstance. As to Aramis, he had asked for leave of absence for five\ndays, and was gone, it was said, to Rouen on family busines... |
4,361 | 1257_chapter_16:_in_which_m._seguier,_keeper_of_the_seals,_looks_more_than_once_for_the_bell,_in_order_to_ring_it,_as_he_did_before | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Who is M. Seguier? Let's find out... The King reacts immediately and unfavorably to the news that Buckingham has been in town. The Cardinal lies through his teeth and tells the King that he believes a) Buckingham was probably in town for political reasons, and b) that the Queen loves the King and would never in a milli... | [
"16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL",
"It is impossible to form an idea of the impression these few words made\nupon Louis XIII. He grew pale and red alternately; and the cardinal saw\nat once that he had recovered by a single blow all the ground he had\nlost.",
"\"Bu... |
4,362 | 1257_chapter_17:_bonacieux_at_home | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King realizes that this is the second time the Cardinal has mentioned the diamonds and is intrigued by the mystery. No matter how much they pretend to be BFFs, the King and the Cardinal are also rivals. The King has been humiliated multiple times because the Cardinal has better spies than the King. He hopes to figu... | [
"17 BONACIEUX AT HOME",
"It was the second time the cardinal had mentioned these diamond studs to\nthe king. Louis XIII was struck with this insistence, and began to fancy\nthat this recommendation concealed some mystery.",
"More than once the king had been humiliated by the cardinal, whose\npolice, without hav... |
4,363 | 1257_chapter_18:_lover_and_husband | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first thing D'Artagnan says when he walks into Madame Bonacieux's apartment is that her husband is a bad guy. He overheard the entire conversation, and he's ready to do anything for her. Madame Bonacieux says, "Really?" D'Artagnan claims that he's a trustworthy guy. He ends with "I love you. I'm an honorable man. I... | [
"18 LOVER AND HUSBAND",
"Ah, Madame,\" said d'Artagnan, entering by the door which the young woman\nopened for him, \"allow me to tell you that you have a bad sort of a\nhusband.\"",
"\"You have, then, overheard our conversation?\" asked Mme. Bonacieux,\neagerly, and looking at d'Artagnan with disquiet.",
"\"... |
4,364 | 1257_chapter_19:_plan_of_campaign | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan shows up at Treville's house all excited. He's about to embark on a mission for glory, money, and love. What more could you want? As soon as Treville sees D'Artagnan, he can tell that something's up. D'Artagnan is ready to tell Treville everything since he's such a good friend, but as soon as D'Artagnan tell... | [
"19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN",
"D'Artagnan went straight to M. de Treville's. He had reflected that in a\nfew minutes the cardinal would be warned by this cursed stranger, who\nappeared to be his agent, and he judged, with reason, he had not a\nmoment to lose.",
"The heart of the young man overflowed with joy. An oppor... |
4,365 | 1257_chapter_20:_the_journey | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They leave at two o'clock in the morning slightly fearful, but by the time morning hits they're in a great and sunny mood. They reach Chantilly at about eight in the morning ready to eat breakfast. They dismount at an inn and tell the lackeys not to unsaddle the horses in case they need to make a quick getaway. A gentl... | [
"20 THE JOURNEY",
"At two o'clock in the morning, our four adventurers left Paris by the\nBarriere St. Denis. As long as it was dark they remained silent; in\nspite of themselves they submitted to the influence of the obscurity,\nand apprehended ambushes on every side.",
"With the first rays of day their tongue... |
4,366 | 1257_chapter_21:_the_countess_de_winter | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke pieces together the full story of the situation, and expresses his astonishment that the Cardinal's agents didn't stop D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan points out that he had three brave friends with him. Still, the Duke is impressed. The two of them reach London and head for the Duke's house. The Duke takes D'Artagnan ... | [
"21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER",
"As they rode along, the duke endeavored to draw from d'Artagnan, not all\nthat had happened, but what d'Artagnan himself knew. By adding all that\nhe heard from the mouth of the young man to his own remembrances, he was\nenabled to form a pretty exact idea of a position of the seriou... |
4,367 | 1257_chapter_22:_the_ballet_of_la_merlaison | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the ball, the King and Queen are slated to perform the King's favorite dance. It's called La Merlaison and everyone in the city is excited Preparations are made throughout the day for the fete, and at midnight the King finally arrives, looking "dull and weary." All the notables at the ball have their own dressing ro... | [
"22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON",
"On the morrow, nothing was talked of in Paris but the ball which the\naldermen of the city were to give to the king and queen, and in which\ntheir Majesties were to dance the famous La Merlaison--the favorite\nballet of the king.",
"Eight days had been occupied in preparations ... |
4,368 | 1257_chapter_23:_the_rendezvous | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan runs home. It is now three o'clock in the morning. D'Artagnan runs back to his apartment , and asks if anyone has brought a letter. Planchet says no, but that a letter has mysteriously appeared. He found a letter in D'Artagnan's bedroom and left it untouched. He thinks it's unnatural and warns D'Artagnan tha... | [
"23 THE RENDEZVOUS",
"D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in\nthe morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse,\nhe met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers\nhave a protecting deity.",
"He found the door of his passage open, sprang u... |
4,369 | 1257_chapter_24:_the_pavilion | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan meets Planchet at nine; Planchet is armed and D'Artagnan has his sword and two pistols. The two head out; at first Planchet rides behind D'Artagnan but he gradually moves his horse forward. As the two are riding through the woods, Planchet's mind again turns to Bonacieux. D'Artagnan again makes light of his ... | [
"24 THE PAVILION",
"At nine o'clock d'Artagnan was at the Hotel des Gardes; he found\nPlanchet all ready. The fourth horse had arrived.",
"Planchet was armed with his musketoon and a pistol. D'Artagnan had his\nsword and placed two pistols in his belt; then both mounted and departed\nquietly. It was quite dark,... |
4,370 | 1257_chapter_25:_porthos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rather than go home, D'Artagnan goes to visit Treville. He tells his mentor the full and honest truth, hoping for some advice. Treville is convinced that the Cardinal is behind it all. Treville promises to tell the Queen that Constance has been kidnapped, and recommends that D'Artagnan leave Paris immediately. D'Artagn... | [
"25 PORTHOS",
"Instead of returning directly home, d'Artagnan alighted at the door of\nM. de Treville, and ran quickly up the stairs. This time he had decided\nto relate all that had passed. M. de Treville would doubtless give him\ngood advice as to the whole affair. Besides, as M. de Treville saw the\nqueen almo... |
4,371 | 1257_chapter_26:_aramis_and_his_thesis | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan daydreams of Madame Bonacieux on his way to Crevecoeur and quickly reaches his destination. At the inn where he left Aramis, D'Artagnan is informed that Aramis is with some men from the church, and is planning to join the priesthood. D'Artagnan heads to Aramis's door, which is blocked by Bazin, who wants his... | [
"26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS",
"D'Artagnan had said nothing to Porthos of his wound or of his\nprocurator's wife. Our Bearnais was a prudent lad, however young he\nmight be. Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the\nvainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will\nhold out against ... |
4,372 | 1257_chapter_27:_the_wife_of_athos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Their next step is to find Athos. It's clear, however, that Aramis is in no state to ride his horse. D'Artagnan tells him to stay, recuperate, and make up with Bazin, who has been depressed since Athos changed his mind about taking orders. D'Artagnan sets off alone. Soon he's immersed deep in thought about Athos. It's ... | [
"27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS",
"We have now to search for Athos,\" said d'Artagnan to the vivacious\nAramis, when he had informed him of all that had passed since their\ndeparture from the capital, and an excellent dinner had made one of them\nforget his thesis and the other his fatigue.",
"\"Do you think, then, that ... |
4,373 | 1257_chapter_28:_the_return | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Athos tells D'Artagnan that he was drunk last night and probably told lots of ridiculous tall tales. D'Artagnan says that he doesn't recall anything particularly crazy. Eventually, however, D'Artagnan tells Athos last night they were talking about the hanging of a beautiful woman. Athos resolves not t... | [
"28 THE RETURN",
"D'Artagnan was astounded by the terrible confidence of Athos; yet many\nthings appeared very obscure to him in this half revelation. In the\nfirst place it had been made by a man quite drunk to one who was half\ndrunk; and yet, in spite of the incertainty which the vapor of three or\nfour bottle... |
4,374 | 1257_chapter_29:_hunting_for_the_equipments | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There is still no information on the whereabouts of Madame Bonacieux. Athos refuses to leave his house to find money. There are fifteen days before the campaign starts, and Athos tells his friends that if he still doesn't have any money when the time comes, he will pick a fight with the Cardinal's Guards or some Englis... | [
"29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS",
"The most preoccupied of the four friends was certainly d'Artagnan,\nalthough he, in his quality of Guardsman, would be much more easily\nequipped than Messieurs the Musketeers, who were all of high rank; but\nour Gascon cadet was, as may have been observed, of a provident and\nal... |
4,375 | 1257_chapter_30:_d'artagnan_and_the_englishman | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan follows Milady out of the church. She gets in her carriage and drives to St. Germain. He then tracks down Planchet and orders him to fetch two horses from Treville's stable and meet him at Athos's house. When D'Artagnan arrives, Athos is drinking some Spanish wine. D'Artagnan tells him about Porthos's method... | [
"30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN",
"D'Artagnan followed Milady without being perceived by her. He saw her\nget into her carriage, and heard her order the coachman to drive to St.\nGermain.",
"It was useless to try to keep pace on foot with a carriage drawn by two\npowerful horses. D'Artagnan therefore returned... |
4,376 | 1257_chapter_31:_english_and_french | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All parties show up at the designated meeting place: a little spot behind the Luxembourg. The Englishmen tell the Frenchmen their names and rank. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis give their names, much to the annoyance of the Englishmen, who think those names belong to shepherds and not to gentlemen. The Englishm... | [
"31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH",
"The hour having come, they went with their four lackeys to a spot behind\nthe Luxembourg given up to the feeding of goats. Athos threw a piece of\nmoney to the goatkeeper to withdraw. The lackeys were ordered to act as\nsentinels.",
"A silent party soon drew near to the same enclosure,... |
4,377 | 1257_chapter_32:_a_procurator's_dinner | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the evening of the dinner at the lawyer's house and Porthos is looking forward to this meal. He dreams of being welcomed as a member of the family and eating a delicious home-cooked meal. As he approaches the house, however, his dreams bear no resemblance to reality. The house is dingy and the kitchen lacks the h... | [
"32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER",
"However brilliant had been the part played by Porthos in the duel, it\nhad not made him forget the dinner of the procurator's wife.",
"On the morrow he received the last touches of Mousqueton's brush for an\nhour, and took his way toward the Rue aux Ours with the steps of a man\nwho... |
4,378 | 1257_chapter_33:_soubrette_and_mistress | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Soubrette" refers to a young and pretty lady's maid--that would be Milady's maid. D'Artagnan continues to visit Milady every night and grows more deeply in love with her. Milady's maid, Kitty, continues to brush past him after every visit. Finally, one night on his way in to see Milady Kitty accosts him and tells him ... | [
"33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS",
"Meantime, as we have said, despite the cries of his conscience and the\nwise counsels of Athos, d'Artagnan became hourly more in love with\nMilady. Thus he never failed to pay his diurnal court to her; and the\nself-satisfied Gascon was convinced that sooner or later she could not\nf... |
4,379 | 1257_chapter_34:_in_which_the_equipment_of_aramis_and_porthos_is_treated_of | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since the four have been searching for a means to equip themselves, they haven't been spending much time together. They've been meeting only about once a week. When they meet this week, Porthos looks tranquil, D'Artagnan looks hopeful, Aramis looks uneasy, and Athos looks careless. Mousqueton interrupts their meeting a... | [
"34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF",
"Since the four friends had been each in search of his equipments, there\nhad been no fixed meeting between them. They dined apart from one\nanother, wherever they might happen to be, or rather where they could.\nDuty likewise on its part took a por... |
4,380 | 1257_chapter_35:_a_gascon_a_match_for_cupid | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the morning after the key evening for both Porthos and D'Artagnan. Athos, who is now with D'Artagnan, listens eagerly as the Gascon recounts the previous evening's events. D'Artagnan shows up at Milady's, where he is warmly received. As Kitty serves them sorbet, D'Artagnan can't help but reflect that the maid has... | [
"35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID",
"The evening so impatiently waited for by Porthos and by d'Artagnan at\nlast arrived.",
"As was his custom, d'Artagnan presented himself at Milady's at about\nnine o'clock. He found her in a charming humor. Never had he been so\nwell received. Our Gascon knew, by the first glanc... |
4,381 | 1257_chapter_36:_dream_of_vengeance | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady continues to wait for a visit from D'Artagnan, but none is forthcoming. Finally, she sends him a note asking him to come visit. D'Artagnan notes that the worse the Comte's behavior is, the more he rises in Milady's estimation. He convinces himself it would be rude to refuse the invitation. Kitty gets worried aga... | [
"36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE",
"That evening Milady gave orders that when M. d'Artagnan came as usual,\nhe should be immediately admitted; but he did not come.",
"The next day Kitty went to see the young man again, and related to him\nall that had passed on the preceding evening. D'Artagnan smiled; this\njealous ange... |
4,382 | 1257_chapter_37:_milady's_secret | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan goes home to reflect on his situation. Clearly, he's head over heels in love with Milady and she does not seem to care. Yet he also wants Milady to suffer, and he wants revenge in his own name. At eleven o'clock D'Artagnan goes straight to her bedroom. She boldly invites him in, right in front of Kitty, whos... | [
"37 MILADY'S SECRET",
"D'Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty's\nchamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do--and that for two\nreasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches,\nrecriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to\nhave an opportu... |
4,383 | 1257_chapter_38:_how,_without_incommoding_himself,_athos_procured_his_equipment | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan runs straight to Athos's house. Athos, luckily, recognizes his friend. D'Artagnan relates the past events to his friend. D'Artagnan asks if Athos is sure that the other lady with a fleur-de-lis brand on her shoulder is dead. Athos asks for a full description of Milady. It now seems highly likely that Milady ... | [
"38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT",
"D'Artagnan was so completely bewildered that without taking any heed of\nwhat might become of Kitty he ran at full speed across half Paris, and\ndid not stop till he came to Athos's door. The confusion of his mind,\nthe terror which spurred him ... |
4,384 | 1257_chapter_39:_a_vision | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All four friends meet up at four o'clock. Planchet enters with two letters for his master. The first is clearly from a lady, and the second is from the Cardinal. The first is unsigned, but requests D'Artagnan's presence on a certain road at a certain time. He is to look into the carriages that pass, but must give no in... | [
"39 A VISION",
"At four o'clock the four friends were all assembled with Athos. Their\nanxiety about their outfits had all disappeared, and each countenance\nonly preserved the expression of its own secret disquiet--for behind all\npresent happiness is concealed a fear for the future.",
"Suddenly Planchet enter... |
4,385 | 1257_chapter_40:_the_cardinal | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Cardinal stares at D'Artagnan for a bit, then questions him about his family and his past. He says that D'Artagnan had an interesting incident at Meung, demonstrating that he knows exactly what happened. The Cardinal knows that D'Artagnan lost his letter of introduction to Treville, but that Treville put him in Des... | [
"40 A TERRIBLE VISION",
"The cardinal leaned his elbow on his manuscript, his cheek upon his\nhand, and looked intently at the young man for a moment. No one had a\nmore searching eye than the Cardinal de Richelieu, and d'Artagnan felt\nthis glance run through his veins like a fever.",
"He however kept a good c... |
4,386 | 1257_chapter_41:_the_siege_of_la_rochelle | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator of The Three Musketeers also provides a historical overview in this chapter. Remember the Huguenots and the Catholics from Mousqueton's story earlier? To recap, the Huguenots are French Protestants who saw Catholicism as far too invested in pompous ritual and overly materialistic. Since most of France, inc... | [
"41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE",
"The Siege of La Rochelle was one of the great political events of the\nreign of Louis XIII, and one of the great military enterprises of the\ncardinal. It is, then, interesting and even necessary that we should say\na few words about it, particularly as many details of this siege a... |
4,387 | 1257_chapter_42:_the_anjou_wine | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King isn't in the best of health, but he's eager to join the siege as soon as he can. D'Artagnan is much more relaxed after his near brush with death; his only worry is that he has not heard from his friends. He gets a letter, however, written by the supplier of the Musketeers. It obliges him to accept twelve bottl... | [
"42 THE ANJOU WINE",
"After the most disheartening news of the king's health, a report of his\nconvalescence began to prevail in the camp; and as he was very anxious\nto be in person at the siege, it was said that as soon as he could mount\na horse he would set forward.",
"Meantime, Monsieur, who knew that from... |
4,388 | 1257_chapter_43:_the_inn_of_the_red_dovecot | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're given some more history: the two generals of the war are Bassompierre and Schomberg, but they argue so much that they have to be given separate commands. In particular, the Cardinal fears that Bassompierre, a Huguenot at heart, may not fight his best. The narrator says that without getting into the minutiae of mi... | [
"43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT",
"Meanwhile the king, who, with more reason than the cardinal, showed his\nhatred for Buckingham, although scarcely arrived was in such a haste to\nmeet the enemy that he commanded every disposition to be made to drive\nthe English from the Isle of Re, and afterward to press the s... |
4,389 | 1257_chapter_44:_the_utility_of_stovepipes | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The three men don't know the identity of the woman they protected that night, but it's clear that she is an ally of the Cardinal. Porthos calls for some dice. Aramis and Porthos begin to play as Athos paces around the room thinking. Several times, he passes a stovepipe and hears voices. Athos gestures for his friends t... | [
"44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES",
"It was evident that without suspecting it, and actuated solely by their\nchivalrous and adventurous character, our three friends had just\nrendered a service to someone the cardinal honored with his special\nprotection.",
"Now, who was that someone? That was the question the thr... |
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