... trouble. There ain't no sense in it." THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 13 "Our cattle were all played out," Saxon was saying, "and winter was ... "Nope." Billy shook his head. "S and W, because you come first with me." "If I come first with you, you come first with us. Billy, dear, I insist on W and S." "You ... Billy, see the engraving on the inside." "C to D, 18 79," he read. "Carlton to Daisy Carlton was my father's first name. And now, Billy, you've got to get it engraved...
... family had not, he had after all seen but very A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 3 KINGSTON BROOKS HAS A VISITOR Kingston Brooks was twenty-five years old, strong, ... had been living for years in profound solitude when I found him. Frankly, I considered from the first that his mind was unhinged. Therein I fancy lies the whole explanation of his silence and ... into the heart of life. He was a young solicitor recently established in Medchester, without friends save those he was now making, and absolutely without interest of any sort. He had a small...
... election committee, mapping out the course of A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 14 AN AWKWARD QUESTION "You think they really liked it, then?" "How ... sometimes becomes a little difficult." "Have you friends in London?" he asked. "None! I tried living there when I first came back for a few weeks, but it was impossible." ... he was conscious of certain personal qualities, which he had realized and understood from the first. She carried herself well, she walked with the free graceful movements of a well-bred and...
... unsought, and that I do not find it pleasant to be called a liar under my own roof and before my friends. " "It is incredible," he said, softly, "but it is true. You are the ... him." "You did both," she answered, fiercely. "You were his evil genius from the first. It was through you he took to drink, through you he became a gambler. You encouraged him ... acquaintance with me I should scarcely have a moment to call my own, or a house fit to ask my friends to visit. Be so good as to make my answer sufficiently explicit." "It is unnecessary,...
... All the moles are not caught by the mole-trapper. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 9 Hate is as Strong as Love Queen Anne had several of these low voices about her. ... unconscious, Josiana rendered Barkilphedro. Thought is a projectile. Barkilphedro had, from the first day, begun to aim at Josiana the evil intentions which were in his mind. An intention and ... for the tranquillity of her sleep, she was in complete ignorance of what was in the man. Bodin [12 ] has perhaps this terrible triple sense: search for the torture; suffering of the tortured;...
... reaction against the wig was beginning. Just as in 18 24 Eugene Deveria was the first to allow his beard to grow, so in 17 02 Prince Devereux was the first to risk wearing his own hair in public disguised ... Prince Devereux was the first, Lord David Dirry-Moir the second. It is sometimes more difficult to be second than first. It requires less genius, but more courage. The first, intoxicated by the ... to take the place of the Rota, founded by Milton. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 4 The Leader of Fashion Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to be scarcely...
... Then it throws its rider, and you have 16 42 in England and 17 89 in France; and sometimes it devours him, and you have in England 16 49, and in France 17 93. That the lion should relapse into ... that is all that is asked of the sovereign of England. He receives for that nothing 1, 250,000 a year. In 17 05, England which had had but thirteen men of war under Elizabeth, and thirty-six ... Anne, a wife complicated by Bolingbroke. III. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 5 Queen Anne I. Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinary...