One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.
Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.
I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy....
The sun is born again from the womb of night, he said. See how the light spreads, remaking the world.
The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.
The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.
The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath…. And bustles! Of all the idio...
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
Now, Mama, Papa, and sir, said Ramses, please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight...
Men are frail creatures, of course; one does not expect them to exhibit the steadfastness of women.
In the gloomy corridor of that sepulchre I had felt Emerson’s arms about me for the first time; along the rubble-strewn floor of the wadi we had raced by moonlight to save those we loved from a hideou...
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a plac...
As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.
He never comes to see us unless he wants something. Find out what it is, tell him no, and let us be off.
He managed to create an atmosphere of sticky sentimentality that disgusted me.
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.It is an engaging quality, Emerson.That depends, said Emerson darkly, on how he likes them.
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.