The extravagance in dress— Miss Jackson began. Sillerton took me to the first night of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry’s dress was the only one I recognised from last year; and even...
The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been a preserving fluid rather than a ravaging element; yet her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but onl...
That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.
Something in truth lay dead between them—the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was...
Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.
Some men, Flamel irresistibly added, think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that,...
She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet.
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted. Archer received this strange communication in silence. His...
She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man.
She had once shown him the impossibility of such a hope, and his subsequent behaviour seemed to prove that he had accepted the situation with a reasonableness somewhat mortifying to her vanity.
Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but vain-glory, crassness and a total ignorance . . . ,...
My little old dog
Meanwhile the old Marquess, visibly moved, was charging Odo to respect his elders and superiors, while in the same breath warning him not to take up with the Frenchified notions of the court, but to r...
Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But why? Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, A...
It is only because I am tired and have such odious things to think about, she kept repeating; and it seemed an added injustice that petty cares should leave a trace on the beauty which was her only de...
Iar tu ai să stai lângă mine și o sa privim realitatea, nu închipuirile.
I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-ni...