A Modern ChronicleMacmillan, 1910 - 493 էջ This, Mr. Churchill's first great presentation of the Eternal Feminine, is throughout a profound study of a fascinating young American woman. It is frankly a modern love story. |
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... arms . Tears welled up in the Frenchwoman's eyes as she abandoned her charge . " Pauvre migonne ! " she cried . But Mrs. Holt rebuked the nurse sharply , in French , -a language with which neither Aunt Mary nor Uncle Tom was familiar ...
... arms . Tears welled up in the Frenchwoman's eyes as she abandoned her charge . " Pauvre migonne ! " she cried . But Mrs. Holt rebuked the nurse sharply , in French , -a language with which neither Aunt Mary nor Uncle Tom was familiar ...
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... arms akimbo , ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach . " Whisht , ' Nora darlint , it's a young lady ye'll be soon , and the beaux a - comin ' ' round ! " she would cry , and throw back her head and laugh ...
... arms akimbo , ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach . " Whisht , ' Nora darlint , it's a young lady ye'll be soon , and the beaux a - comin ' ' round ! " she would cry , and throw back her head and laugh ...
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... arms were about her . " Oh , it's Christmas , Cathy , isn't it ? How could I have for- gotten it ! " " Now go to sleep , honey . Your aunt and uncle wouldn't like it at all at all if ye was to make noise in the middle of the night - and ...
... arms were about her . " Oh , it's Christmas , Cathy , isn't it ? How could I have for- gotten it ! " " Now go to sleep , honey . Your aunt and uncle wouldn't like it at all at all if ye was to make noise in the middle of the night - and ...
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... arms tightly locked around her aunt's neck , " how lovely ! Did you send all the way to New York for it ? " " No , Honora , " said her aunt , " it didn't come from New York . " Aunt Mary did not explain that this coat had been her one ...
... arms tightly locked around her aunt's neck , " how lovely ! Did you send all the way to New York for it ? " " No , Honora , " said her aunt , " it didn't come from New York . " Aunt Mary did not explain that this coat had been her one ...
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... arms so full that he had had to push open the gate with his foot . " Well , well , well , well ! " he said , stopping short on the doorstep and surveying our velvet - clad princess , " I've come to the wrong house . " The princess stuck ...
... arms so full that he had had to push open the gate with his foot . " Well , well , well , well ! " he said , stopping short on the doorstep and surveying our velvet - clad princess , " I've come to the wrong house . " The princess stuck ...
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Էջ 144 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 267 - I had loved him," she said after a pause. "Would you have cared?" "You bet your life," said Howard, and put his arm around her. She looked up into his face.
Էջ 123 - I have a great respect for any man who makes his own way in life,
Էջ 443 - Perhaps at sight of the relentlessness in his eyes, hope left her, and she sank down on a chair and buried her face in her hands, her voice broken by sobs.
Էջ 48 - Mrs. Wharton is not guilty of expressing the fact in the same cloying terms; it is this rose-colored future which is withheld from Honora Leffingwell in Churchill's Modern Chronicle until she has learned that "The greatest wonders are not at the ends of the earth, but near us" 50 and that being 49 Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rose o'the River (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905), p.
Էջ 235 - ... suffragette"; her highest praise comes from a country woman who says she will "make a good wife for somebody." She is a feminine feminist, "one that might have governed a province and yet still have been a woman." Although each heroine wishes at least once that she were a man, although each possesses a "quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame...
Էջ 288 - Erwin said, in the nicest way possible, but very firmly, that a lawyer who hired himself out to enable one man to take advantage of another prostituted his talents...
Էջ 355 - I was a fool. My standards were false. In spite of the fact that my aunt and uncle are the most unworldly people that ever lived — perhaps because of it — I knew nothing of the values of life. I have but one thing to say in my defence. I thought I loved you, and that you could give me — what every woman needs.
Էջ 161 - Rights, the modern novel and modern drama, automobiles, flying machines, and intelligence offices; hotel, apartment, and suburban life, or four homes, or none at all? Is it a weed that will grow anywhere, in a crevice between two stones in the city?
Էջ 54 - Notre Dame de Clery, Vendome, Vendome ! Quel chagrin, quel ennui, De compter toute la nuit, Les In.- ii n"..