You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.
What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers indomitable spirit
Then he noticed the belt. He pulled it out. The thing had been handed down in the family since God knows when. His father had told: 'Better keep it. It's wampum. Supposed to be lucky.' William shrugge...
Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.''But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly ob...
London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desemp...
It was politics and religion, in van Dyck’s private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.
Iglesia anglicana.
Ella era su antigua amante, su confidente y su amiga.
El resultado es una forma parecida al tronco de un árbol envuelta en una capa, de la que surge una gran cabeza con un cuello recio como el de un toro.
And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious En...
¿O habría sucumbido al terrible hábito francés de la arrogancia, igual que todos los demás? Francia
Have had to pay for a visit to the discreet mansion near the Opéra—into a fund. And tonight they were going to draw lots to discover which of them was to take the money and visit La Belle Hélène. But...
The bare, sweeping chalk downs of southern England, familiar today, are not a natural feature of the landscape: they were created by prehistoric man.
So how would you define a Londoner, then? Lady Penny asked curiously. Someone who lives here. It’s like the old definition of a cockney: someone who’s born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a...
She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.
No one there could possibly have missed its significance. No church in England had ever been disgraced with such a thing. From the shape of the dome, the Corinthian columns – every detail had suddenly...
Francia era la mejor nación, la más culta e inteligente del mundo, eso repetían y repetían; así pues, por tanto, no tenía nada que aprender de los ordinarios alemanes, de los toscos anglosajones ni de...
Fate was cruel, but it was fate.
Doesn’t private vice make a man unworthy of public office? And now kindly Mrs. Albion looked at Mercy with genuine astonishment. Well, she laughed, if it did, there’d be no one to govern the land.
Brothers who are alive today, when we are gone, do not be hard, but pity us Beg God’s forgiveness for us now, that He may sooner pity you, when you are dust. It