The previous
chapter marks the conclusion of the written narrative which the Persian left behind him.
In the first book I have wandered so much from my own adventures to tell of the experiences of my brother that all through the last two
chapters I and the curate have been lurking in the empty house at Halliford whither we fled to escape the Black Smoke.
another number = in the Graham's Magazine periodical version, not divided into
chapters, this paragraph closed the first of the four installments in which the story was printed; in later book versions it was changed to read "in the next
chapter"}
He always went to church on Sacrament Sundays, but not very regularly at other times; on wet Sundays, or whenever he had a touch of rheumatism, he used to read the three first
chapters of Genesis instead.
There are a few passages in the ensuing
chapters which may be thought to bear rather bard upon a reverend order of men, the account of whose proceedings in different quarters of the globe-- transmitted to us through their own hands--very generally, and often very deservedly, receives high commendation.
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, son of him who played so conspicuous a part in the early
chapters of this history, -- Villiers of Buckingham, a handsome cavalier, melancholy with women, a jester with men, -- and Wilmot, Lord Rochester, a jester with both sexes, were standing at this moment before the Lady Henrietta, disputing the privilege of making her smile.
It was a tale told serially by Cloke in the barn, or his wife in the dairy, the last
chapters reserved for the kitchen o' nights by the big fire, when the two had been half the day exploring about the house, where old Iggulden, of the blue smock, cackled and chuckled to see them.
He made Kim learn whole
chapters of the Koran by heart, till he could deliver them with the very roll and cadence of a mullah.
In many dark old tomes she met with
chapters full of romance and poetry.
It was my business to visit this little-known back-country and to examine its fauna, which furnished me with the materials for several
chapters for that great and monumental work upon zoology which will be my life's justification.
In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be lived in society, and when in the last
chapters of the Ethics he comes to the practical application of his inquiries, that finds expression not in moral exhortations addressed to the individual but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman.
They lecture our shortcomings unsparingly, and every night they call us together and read to us
chapters from the Testament that are full of gentleness, of charity, and of tender mercy; and then all the next day they stick to their saddles clear up to the summits of these rugged mountains, and clear down again.
