She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it...
Throughout the autumn and the winter activity increased in the Beaulieu area, and with it came mysteries. Lepe House, the mansion at the entrance to the river, was taken over by the Navy and became fu...
Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
Knots
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
The cornmeal fritters were very good if you could forget about the maggots,
Professor O’Leary was Professor of Mediaeval Literature at Ann Arbor University in Michigan, just outside Detroit.
In the quiet serenity of the night that did not seem very important; it was only important that she should shut up and not spoil his evening. Now you get on and start her up, and shut up talking. She...
He searched his mind for something he could do for her to match her generosity in some small measure. Like to go to the pictures tonight? he said. I see there’s Cary Grant on at the Regal. Four days l...
I was very depressed in those months, because it’s not funny to lose both your feet when you’re thirty years old.
One has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
You can call a sunset by a filthy name, but you do not spoil its beauty, monsieur.
You do not understand. Over there, they want to help us. If they make a home for children, refugees from Europe, they feel that they are doing something worth while. And they are.
It’s ever so kind of you to take the trouble, she said. She turned to her father. Dad, this gentleman’s mended my iron, and it works beautifully. She used her normal language without thinking anything...
It was her dog getting killed that put the lid on it, said Viola, seven years later. Funny, that, wasn’t it? She stood up quite well when your brother got killed and when her father got killed, but wh...
When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.
The Negro said, I don’t feel so good right now. Say, if I’d known that cutting your throat gave you septicaemia, I sure would have made a job of it. Or else not done it at all, said Turner. The Negro...
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