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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... watched the personal attractions of his daughter grow , and a brougham and certain other delights not to be mentioned had gradually become , in his mind , synonymous with old age . The brougham would have on its panels the Allison crest ...
... watched the personal attractions of his daughter grow , and a brougham and certain other delights not to be mentioned had gradually become , in his mind , synonymous with old age . The brougham would have on its panels the Allison crest ...
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... watched them cross the street , " I wish the child would marry him . Not now , of course , " she added hastily , a little frightened by her own admission , " but later . Some- times I worry over her future . She needs a strong and ...
... watched them cross the street , " I wish the child would marry him . Not now , of course , " she added hastily , a little frightened by her own admission , " but later . Some- times I worry over her future . She needs a strong and ...
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... watched from the platform the three receding figures in the yellow smoky light until the car slipped out from under the roof into the blackness of the night . Some faint , premonitory divination of what they repre- sented of immutable ...
... watched from the platform the three receding figures in the yellow smoky light until the car slipped out from under the roof into the blackness of the night . Some faint , premonitory divination of what they repre- sented of immutable ...
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... watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback . But he never appeared , and presently she forgot him . Had there been a prospectus ( which is ridiculous ! ) , the great secret of Miss ...
... watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback . But he never appeared , and presently she forgot him . Had there been a prospectus ( which is ridiculous ! ) , the great secret of Miss ...
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... watched the groups of players pass . Mr. Spence produced his cigarette case , and presented it to her playfully . " A little quiet whiff , " he suggested . " There's not much chance over at the convent , " and she gathered that it was ...
... watched the groups of players pass . Mr. Spence produced his cigarette case , and presented it to her playfully . " A little quiet whiff , " he suggested . " There's not much chance over at the convent , " and she gathered that it was ...
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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...