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Page 38 - Thorburn examined, and over these he lingered very long, — reading some amongst them a second time, and returning to reconsider others which he had put aside after a first perusal. These letters were written on the thickest and finest paper, and exhaled a faint odour of millefleurs, so faint as to be only the impalpable ghost of a departed perfume. Notes and letters were alike dated, but the only signature to be found amongst them was the single initial H. Eustace read them in the order in which...
Page 74 - S'pose the odds are against Jerningham going off the hooks between this and the first spring-meeting, so as to give a party a chance with Mrs. J. herself," speculates young Belgravia, dreamily. Mrs. Jerningham had enjoyed her quasi-widowhood some two years, when Mrs. Grundy's attention was called to a new phenomenon in connection with that lady. It was observed that whoever was bidden to the nice little dinner-parties at the toy-villa, there was one gentlemen whose presence was a certainty.
Page 81 - I suppose," he added, without looking VOL. I. G up from the proofs on which he was operating. "Well, no, not much good. It's a business I shouldn't care about repeating ; but it's a business that must be done — it must be done, Desmond, sooner or later, in every man's life, I suppose.
Page 228 - Grecian mdnageres were angry when their lords consumed the midnight oil. Perhaps that was one of Xantippe's grievances. I don't think Socrates could have been a very agreeable husband." "That point is open to discussion,
Page 14 - Celia's son shall never want a share of it ; and though I may be a disreputable acquaintance, I can be a faithful friend. If you are tired of that slow old Belgian city, come back to England. We will manage your establishment here somehow. The impracticable Daniel has a certain kind of influence ; and though he rarely cares to use it on his own account, — being so bad a lot that he dare not give himself a decent character, — he will employ it to the uttermost for a spotless nephew. "Come then,...
Page 175 - ... of the million were accounted the necessities of existence. The women he met were women who would have been panic-stricken if they had found themselves on foot and alone in a crowded London street. They were women who, if suddenly reduced to the depths of poverty, would have thought the delf plates and mugs of destitution a greater hardship than its bread and water. They were delicate creatures — not too bright or good for human nature's daily food, but quite unable to cope with human nature's...
Page 50 - Yes, the only enemy Mr. Mayfield had made was himself. Everybody liked him. He was your true Bohemian, your genuine Arab of the great desert of London. Money ran between his fingers like water. He had been more successful, and had worked harder, than men whose industry had won for them houses and lands, horses and carriages, plate and linen and Sevres china. His acquaintance were always calculating his income, and wondering what he did with it. Did he gamble ? Did he speculate on the Stock Exchange...
Page 67 - BryanstoneBqnare — told several different stories of Mr. Jerningham's marriage. The beautiful young cousin had possessed the real Jerningham pride, which was as the pride of the Miltonic Lucifer himself, wherefore the peaceful union of two Jerninghams was an impossibility, said one faction. But the majority were inclined to believe Mr. Jerningham in some manner guilty. Neither his youth nor his middle age had been spotless. Too proud and too refined to affect coarse vices or common dissipations,...
Page 130 - K was serenely happy among his books and manuscripts, in the chamber which his friend had beautified for him, and had no thought of seeking any other kind of happiness. The great scheme of his life, the very beginning and end of his existence, was the completion of a book which was to supply an existing void in the world of books. To this achievement he devoted his days and nights, choosing all his reading with reference to his one great scheme. The subject possessed unfailing fascination for the...