You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I
I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
You just said you couldn’t stand Willstown,’ he objected. ‘Burketown and Croydon – well, they’re just the same.’ ‘I know,’ she said thoughtfully. ‘I’m not being very reasonable, am I? First I say I co...
This may have been what John and I were brought together for,’ she said. ‘In thirty years the world may need one of these little ones.’ She paused. ‘It may be Ronnie or it may be Willem, or it may be...
Tell us,’ she said gently. ‘Would you like to grow up with horses? Or would you rather buy things and sell them for a profit?’ After all, she thought, it would be difficult for him to go against the c...
Jerry stood the old man to a glass of mild, and asked, What do you think of all these Americans in Trenarth, Mr Parsons? The ancient piped in his old quavering voice, I like them very well; oh, very w...
I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful.Don't worry about me, he said. You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we jus...
I had travelled the world and I had come to realise, in faint surprise, that I had seen no countryside that could compare in pastoral beauty with that of my own home. It takes a long time for an Austr...
Half a thou too small, he said. The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it’ld be Right. As it is, it’s Wrong, and you can’t cheat about it. He smiled again. Too bad when God gi...
Finally he got up, feeling uncommonly well. It did not occur to him that this was because he had a job to do, for the first time in many months.
Before she had been a year at Ford Janet came to look forward to her next pass with something close to apprehension; it was pitiful to see her mother ageing and be unable to help her, to see her fathe...
And then, Monsieur votre fils, he was well too? Well, they had to know. He turned away from her blindly. ‘Madame,’ he said, ‘mon fils est mort. Il est tombé de son avion, au-dessus de Heligoland Bight...
Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!
I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers.
I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one—but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I’m sorry, but it’s no new thing. If that sh...
He said, The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well. She
She said, Aye, they’re getting for him everything the heart of man could desire, saving the one thing. I asked, What’s that? She said, A wife. She’s very shrewd.
Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.
Okay,’ said Jack phlegmatically. ‘Be seeing you.’ Friends and women, he knew, never really mixed.
A placard nailed upon a post, CHIEN MECHANT, warned him, but did not warn the children. The dog, an enormous brindled creature, leaped out at them to the limit of his chain, raising a terrific clamour...