Book Excerpt con un fiore e con un nastro, con una farfalla e una veletta, dei cappellini fatti di niente. Sulla sua piccola persona vi è sempre una cosetta carina e originale, una fibbia, un fermaglio, un nodo di nastro, un gingillo sospeso alla cintura, qualche cosa di luminoso e di vezzoso, talvolta di vezzoso […]
Book Excerpt s she had looked an indefinite number of years ago. Her age – none knew it, save herself and perhaps one other, and none cared. The gracious and alluring contours of her figure were irreproachable; and in the evenings she was a useful ornament of which any hotel might be innocently proud. Her […]
Book Excerpt ll the knowledge of good and evil that God had perhaps given her, but that no one had ever thought of developing. I shall always remember her, as she passed along the boulevards almost every day at the same hour, accompanied by her mother as assiduously as a real mother might have accompanied […]
The story of Julia Cloud, family drudge, and her rejuvenation, results in an exquisite romance and a cheerful story as heart-satisfying as a fresh-blown rose.
Book Excerpt more as gross and detestable; like the swallowing of mugs of beer to advertise what one could “stand.” If an anonymous drawing on a museum wall had been conscious and watchful it might have known this peculiar pleasure of being at last and all of a sudden identified–as from the hand of a […]
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor […]
The word Courtship has an old-world sound about it, and carries the mind back to the statelier manners of bygone days. Nowadays we have no leisure for courtly greetings and elaborately-turned compliments. We are slackening many of the old bonds, breaking down some of the old restraint, and, though it will seem treason to members […]
Book Excerpt self as if I was cruel in going to be married and not helping you. It ain’t kind. Now, is it kind, Poor Thing?””Sally! Hear me, my dear. My entreaty is for no help in the future. It applies to what is past. It is only to be told in two words.” “There! […]
Book Excerpt It proved a strenuous afternoon, yet the young fellow had the right stuff in him to make good, that stubborn pride which never surrenders before difficulties; he shut his teeth, rolled up his shirt-sleeves, and went earnestly to work.It was a small, cheaply built theatre, having restricted stage space, while a perfect riff-raff […]