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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... wonder - and sometimes of envy- to Aunt Mary's friends ; who returned from the seaside in the autumn , after a week among the fashions in Boston or New York , to find Honora in the latest models , and better dressed than their own ...
... wonder - and sometimes of envy- to Aunt Mary's friends ; who returned from the seaside in the autumn , after a week among the fashions in Boston or New York , to find Honora in the latest models , and better dressed than their own ...
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... wonder to Honora's soul . She lingered in her dressing , even in those days , falling into reveries from which Catherine gently and deferentially aroused her ; and Uncle Tom would be carving the beefsteak and Aunt Mary pouring the ...
... wonder to Honora's soul . She lingered in her dressing , even in those days , falling into reveries from which Catherine gently and deferentially aroused her ; and Uncle Tom would be carving the beefsteak and Aunt Mary pouring the ...
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... drew her aside to bestow it . He was not one to mince matters . " You're a wonder , Honora , " he said . " If I could lie like that , I wouldn't want a pony . " He was forced to draw back a little from the 28 A Modern Chronicle.
... drew her aside to bestow it . He was not one to mince matters . " You're a wonder , Honora , " he said . " If I could lie like that , I wouldn't want a pony . " He was forced to draw back a little from the 28 A Modern Chronicle.
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... wonder that she learned to dance quickly under such an inspiration ! And how pretty Mrs. Hayden looked as she came for- ward to greet them and kissed Honora ! She had been Virginia Grey , and scarce had had a gown to her back when she ...
... wonder that she learned to dance quickly under such an inspiration ! And how pretty Mrs. Hayden looked as she came for- ward to greet them and kissed Honora ! She had been Virginia Grey , and scarce had had a gown to her back when she ...
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... wonder- ful clothes from the mysterious and luxurious East , they returned at Christmas - tide and Easter from college to break lances over Honora . Let us say it boldly - she was like that she had the world - old knack of sowing ...
... wonder- ful clothes from the mysterious and luxurious East , they returned at Christmas - tide and Easter from college to break lances over Honora . Let us say it boldly - she was like that she had the world - old knack of sowing ...
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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"..