Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But
Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
Otherwise the world could not continue — the children would not be healthy. And
No, the essence of prayer is volition, so the essence of blasphemy is volition. She
Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was not merely that he had confessed to her as he would have to no other soul i...
By Jove...' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
But why was he born to be a sort of lonely buffalo: outside the herd? Not artist: not soldier: not bureaucrat: not certainly indispensable anywhere: apparently not even sound in the eyes of these dim-...
And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday.
Though no man can choose the land of his birth or his ancestry, he can, if he have industry and determination, so watch over himself as materially to modify his automatic habits
You’ll come with me, my little man,’ Sylvia said, ‘if you ever want to bask in my smile again.…
When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To
Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And...
This, Tietjens thought, is England! A man and a maid walk through Kentish grass fields: the grass ripe for the scythe. The man honourable, clean, upright; the maid virtuous, clean, vigorous; he of goo...
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...
So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In
She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.
I have, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find his path through what may be a sort of maze. I cannot help it. I have stuck to my idea of bein...
I HAVE, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find their path through what may be a sort of maze.
But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.