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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... talk to her on the subject of religion that he had never tried it but once . - Such was Aunt Mary . The true student of human nature should not find it surprising that she spoiled Honora and strove at what secret expense , care , and ...
... talk to her on the subject of religion that he had never tried it but once . - Such was Aunt Mary . The true student of human nature should not find it surprising that she spoiled Honora and strove at what secret expense , care , and ...
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... talk to me about my father , Aunt Mary ? Uncle Tom does . " " I didn't know your father , Honora . " " But you have seen him ? ' 99 " Yes , " said Aunt Mary , dipping her cloth into the whiting ; " I saw him at my wedding . But he was ...
... talk to me about my father , Aunt Mary ? Uncle Tom does . " " I didn't know your father , Honora . " " But you have seen him ? ' 99 " Yes , " said Aunt Mary , dipping her cloth into the whiting ; " I saw him at my wedding . But he was ...
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... talking nonsense , my child , " she said . " All my friends know that I am not a person who can entertain distinguished people , and that I do not go out , and that I haven't the money to buy evening dresses . And even if I had , " she ...
... talking nonsense , my child , " she said . " All my friends know that I am not a person who can entertain distinguished people , and that I do not go out , and that I haven't the money to buy evening dresses . And even if I had , " she ...
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... talk of things other people have and not want them , Aunt Mary ? ” " Why should I desire what I cannot have , my dear ? I take such pleasure out of my friends ' possessions as I can . " But you want to go to the seashore , I know you do ...
... talk of things other people have and not want them , Aunt Mary ? ” " Why should I desire what I cannot have , my dear ? I take such pleasure out of my friends ' possessions as I can . " But you want to go to the seashore , I know you do ...
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... talks like a grown - up person . ' " " Mrs. Hayden's dimples deepened . " Better than some grown - up women , " she said . " She sat in my room while I dressed the other afternoon . Mrs. Leffingwell had sent her with a note about that ...
... talks like a grown - up person . ' " " Mrs. Hayden's dimples deepened . " Better than some grown - up women , " she said . " She sat in my room while I dressed the other afternoon . Mrs. Leffingwell had sent her with a note about that ...
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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...