Category: Novels
|Felicia Graves was puzzled. The six weeks she had spent at the Pension Boccard had confused many of her conceptions and brought things before her judgment for which her standards were inadequate. Not that a girl who had passed the few years of her young womanhood in the bubbl...
|Don't waste your pity upon me,” wrote old Mr. Chetwynd to his son Raine, an Oxford don. “This is not the Euxine, and even if it were, there would be compensation.
16. CHAPTER XVI.--FELICIA VICTRIX.“What you have learned about me,” Katherine had written to Raine, “I was to have told you last night. I had written to you a long letter, but I was too weak to send it. I resolv...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--A POOR LITTLE TRAGEDY.“Of the development of human phenomena, two truisms may be stated. First, a man can seldom gauge its progress, the self of to-day differing so infinitely little from the self of...
15. CHAPTER XV.--THE SIGNING OF A DEATH WARRANT.The balcony outside Katherine's room baked in the morning sun. A tiny patch of sunshine stood on the threshold of the open window like a hesitating guest. A cool breeze entered...
10. CHAPTER X.--A TOUCH OF NATURE.Raine sat smoking his pipe for a long time before going to bed. The events of the day had crowded so fast upon one another, that he had scarcely had time to estimate their relat...
6. CHAPTER VI.--SUMMER CHANGES.|From the moment of mutual revelation, the relations between Katherine and Felicia underwent a change, not the less appreciable for being subtle. This was inevitable. In fact, F...
11. CHAPTER XI.--“THE WOMAN WHO DELIBERATES.“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,” is an excellent maxim. Its only fault is its capacity of a too wide extension. If a saying clause had been added with reference to it...
12. CHAPTER XII.--ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR.The waiter who brought Felicia's telegram into the smoking-room found Raine walking up and down, pipe in mouth, in a state of caged irritation. A fine, penetrating rain was fall...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE LONE WOMEN.|Felicia Graves was puzzled. The six weeks she had spent at the Pension Boccard had confused many of her conceptions and brought things before her judgment for which her standar...
4. CHAPTER IV.--“WHERE THE BROOK AND RIVER MEET.Felicia had intended to pursue her study of scientific dressmaking under Mrs. Stapleton's tuition, but she acceded graciously enough. She had considered it her duty to like Frau...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE PUZZLE OF RAINE CHETWYND.“You had better,” urged the other. “We can make our arrangements fit into yours, if you'll give us timely notice. Put aside a fortnight in July or August, and we will keep all t...
9. CHAPTER IX.--VARIOUS ELEMENTS HAVE THEIR SAY.|It was a sultry night. Not a breath of air was stirring. They had escaped from the crowd on the quays and were being rowed about the lake in a little boat gaily hung with Chine...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--THE SOILING OF A PAGE.It was the large room in the Kursaal assigned to the _Cercle de Genève_. Of the two long green tables, one was deserted and in darkness, and the other, brilliantly lighted from...
3. CHAPTER III.--LOST IN THE SNOW|IT was the middle of January. Felicia stood at the salon window and looked out at the snow falling, falling in the deserted street. She was oppressed by the dead silence of thi...
7. CHAPTER VII.--KATHERINE'S HOUR“Ach so!” said Frau Schultz as soon as they were out of earshot, “she has begun already. It is not decent. In a little while he will become quite entangled.”
14. CHAPTER XIV.--THE WEAKER SIDE.Raine had judged her very gently. He had rightly guessed that she had fallen upon the thorns wherewith society strews the land outside its own beaten paths. His insight into the...