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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... gone eastward to the mountains or the seaside . In " the little house under the hill , " the surface of which was a hot slate roof , Honora would awake about seven o'clock to find old Catherine bend- ing over her in a dun - coloured ...
... gone eastward to the mountains or the seaside . In " the little house under the hill , " the surface of which was a hot slate roof , Honora would awake about seven o'clock to find old Catherine bend- ing over her in a dun - coloured ...
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... of this infor- mation Uncle Tom would listen , smiling but genuinely in- terested , while he carved at dinner . One evening , when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham , who was ill , Honora further 16 A Modern Chronicle.
... of this infor- mation Uncle Tom would listen , smiling but genuinely in- terested , while he carved at dinner . One evening , when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham , who was ill , Honora further 16 A Modern Chronicle.
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... gone to the stake with a smile to save her little lady a single childish ill , and who spent her savings , until severely taken to task by Aunt Mary , upon objects for which a casual wish had been expressed . The saints themselves must ...
... gone to the stake with a smile to save her little lady a single childish ill , and who spent her savings , until severely taken to task by Aunt Mary , upon objects for which a casual wish had been expressed . The saints themselves must ...
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... gone . While hovering around the door he heard Mrs. Hayden's voice . " Unless I am tremendously mistaken , my dear , " that lady was remarking to Mrs. Dwyer , whose daughter Emily's future millions were powerless to compel youths of ...
... gone . While hovering around the door he heard Mrs. Hayden's voice . " Unless I am tremendously mistaken , my dear , " that lady was remarking to Mrs. Dwyer , whose daughter Emily's future millions were powerless to compel youths of ...
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Winston Churchill. CHAPTER V In Which Providence Keeps Faith Two wo more years have gone by , limping in the summer and flying in the winter , two more years of con- quests . For our heroine appears to be one of the daughters of Helen ...
Winston Churchill. CHAPTER V In Which Providence Keeps Faith Two wo more years have gone by , limping in the summer and flying in the winter , two more years of con- quests . For our heroine appears to be one of the daughters of Helen ...
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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"..