A Modern ChronicleMacmillan, 1910 - 524 էջ How many stories and novels have been written about the pursuance of wealth and position only to find that, once achieved, neither offers much happiness? Well, here's another one. Honora Leffingwell is born into wealth, but when her parents die in an accident, she is raised by a middle-class aunt and uncle in St. Louis. She dreams of the good life, especially of the upper crust in social position, and her chance comes when a rich schoolmate invites her to spend some time at her mansion. Her head spins with the possibilities, especially when she's introduced to a number of eligible bachelors. She chooses to marry Howard Spence, a rising stockbroker. But when Honora realizes he's good at making money (it's his abiding passion) but not so hot in introducing her into society, she grows tired of him. When she meets the handsome and dynamic and well placed Hugh Chiltern, she decides to divorce Howard and marry him. Churchill spends a good deal of time with the details of this divorce, which ends up occurring in Reno, because he's very much appalled by it all. |
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... asked quickly . Tom walked to the window , and stood looking out into the street . His voice shook as he answered : - " Ten days ago I learned that my brother was dead , Mr. Isham . " The president glanced at the broad back of his ...
... asked quickly . Tom walked to the window , and stood looking out into the street . His voice shook as he answered : - " Ten days ago I learned that my brother was dead , Mr. Isham . " The president glanced at the broad back of his ...
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... asked . " Well , I am relieved . " The lady's eyes , travelling rapidly over Aunt Mary's sober bonnet and brooch and gown , made it appear that these features in Honora's future guardian gave her the relief in question . " Honora , this ...
... asked . " Well , I am relieved . " The lady's eyes , travelling rapidly over Aunt Mary's sober bonnet and brooch and gown , made it appear that these features in Honora's future guardian gave her the relief in question . " Honora , this ...
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... asked Honora , hotly . " Our family is just as good as Mrs. Dwyer's . " The extent of Aunt Mary's distress was not apparent . " You are talking nonsense , my child , " she said . " All my friends know that I am not a person who can ...
... asked Honora , hotly . " Our family is just as good as Mrs. Dwyer's . " The extent of Aunt Mary's distress was not apparent . " You are talking nonsense , my child , " she said . " All my friends know that I am not a person who can ...
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... asked . 66 " Do you want me to ruin her utterly ? " exclaimed Aunt Mary . Uncle Tom put his hands on his wife's shoulders and looked down into her face , and smiled again . Although she held herself very straight , the top of her head ...
... asked . 66 " Do you want me to ruin her utterly ? " exclaimed Aunt Mary . Uncle Tom put his hands on his wife's shoulders and looked down into her face , and smiled again . Although she held herself very straight , the top of her head ...
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... asked that question . Honora sighed . " I'll make a good husband , " said Peter ; " I'll promise . Ugly men are always good husbands . " " I didn't say you were ugly , " declared the ever con- siderate Honora . " Only my nose is too big ...
... asked that question . Honora sighed . " I'll make a good husband , " said Peter ; " I'll promise . Ugly men are always good husbands . " " I didn't say you were ugly , " declared the ever con- siderate Honora . " Only my nose is too big ...
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Էջ 155 - 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 379 - But I must ask you to believe me when I say that I shan't come back.
Էջ 51 - 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 250 - ... 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 24 - What in the world are we going to do with all these people?" I said to the little wife, half apologetically, partly quizzical and yet with a tinge of earnestness illy concealed. "Oh, never mind, we will get along all right some way ; I'll venture father has brought a tent...