An altruist

=A GENDER IN SATIN.= By RITA. =THE MAKING OF MARY.= By JEAN FORSYTH. =DIANA’S HUNTING.= By ROBERT BUCHANAN. =SIR QUIXOTE.= By JOHN BUCHAN. =FOR HONOUR OF THE FLAG.= By CLARK RUS...

“Oh, my dear Cicely!” says Lady Southwold. “Ever since Wilfrid came of age we have all been at him about that; he might have had a walk over for Sax-Stoneham, or for Micklethorp...

“Quite so, quite so,” answers the solicitor, coldly, in a tone which intimates that he will not have that patience. “I have certainly never seen the announcement of an inheritan...

“Your mother,” replies Bertram, “is the most estimable and indefatigable of persons, but she has the taint of painfully narrowed and archaic views: she persists in considering h...

“Compliment is it, my lady? The gentleman’s a crank, that’s what he is; he won’t never marry her, and there’s a good young man round the corner as is left out in the cold. He’s...

“I should certainly consider you the more to blame of the two. A magistrate would take the same view. The Chief Commissioner is of opinion that you ought to have been arrested w...

“You split straws!” growls Southwold. “The business of the world would never get done if men hemmed and hawed and tortured themselves as you do. _Can_ you retract your refusal?...