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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... morning when he stood behind his wicket reading a letter from Howard Allison , Esquire , relative to his niece . Mr. Leffingwell was at this period of his life forty - eight , but the habit he had acquired of assuming responsibilities ...
... morning when he stood behind his wicket reading a letter from Howard Allison , Esquire , relative to his niece . Mr. Leffingwell was at this period of his life forty - eight , but the habit he had acquired of assuming responsibilities ...
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... morning in question , as ne stood in his seersucker coat reading the unquestionably pompous let- ter of Mr. Allison announcing that his niece was on the high seas , he returned the greetings of his friends with his usual kindness and ...
... morning in question , as ne stood in his seersucker coat reading the unquestionably pompous let- ter of Mr. Allison announcing that his niece was on the high seas , he returned the greetings of his friends with his usual kindness and ...
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... morning the Al- bania was docked , and the passengers came crowding down the gang - plank Prosperous tourists , most of them , with serv- ants and stewards carrying bags of English design and checked steamer rugs ; and at last a ruddy ...
... morning the Al- bania was docked , and the passengers came crowding down the gang - plank Prosperous tourists , most of them , with serv- ants and stewards carrying bags of English design and checked steamer rugs ; and at last a ruddy ...
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... morning , when she heard the gate slam , Honora sprang up from the table to don her green velvet coat . Poor Peter ! As though his subjugation could be more complete ! " It's the postman , " suggested Uncle Tom , wickedly . " It's Peter ...
... morning , when she heard the gate slam , Honora sprang up from the table to don her green velvet coat . Poor Peter ! As though his subjugation could be more complete ! " It's the postman , " suggested Uncle Tom , wickedly . " It's Peter ...
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... morning , his 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 ...
... morning , his 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 ...
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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"..