Concerning Isabel Carnaby

"Well, I must confess that I feel rather like the man who lost his wife, and said it was 'verra dull but verra peaceful'; and I have come to the conclusion that peace is an acqu...

A quaint old town which had long ago ceased to be anything but picturesque, but which never forgot that it had once been prosperous, as some women never forget that they have on...

In consequence of her daughter's incriminating blush, Mrs. Martin set herself to the not uncommon task of locking a stable door after the steed has been stolen. But it was too l...

I'll take your part when you are wrong; I'll fight your battles to the end; I'll listen when you sing a song, And never count your tales too long; Because you are my friend.

Through whatsoever ills betide For you I will be spent and spend: I'll stand for ever by your side, And naught shall you and me divide, Because you are my friend.

Paul felt leaving Oxford more than he would have cared to confess; and the weeks he spent at home would have been a dreary time had they not been brightened by the smiles and th...

Their ways were ways of pleasant grace, They toiled not neither did they spin; But since their smiles made glad the place, Dare men of sterner cast of face Account such careless...

The little blind god, as he softly trod, Did a dart for his bow prepare; And he sharpened it with a woman's wit, And he feathered it with her hair.

"Love," she said, "is just a game That does for summer weather!" "Love," he answered, "is a flame Putting lesser lights to shame: Making wealth and rank and fame Weigh lighter t...

One afternoon, early in the season following Paul's visit to Elton Manor, he and Isabel were seated under a tree in Kensington Gardens. It was one of those days when spring pret...

As a place of residence Eden was closed When Adam and Eve left home; And no one can live there, it is supposed, For many a year to come. But now and again, in the summer days, T...

Where thou goest I will go, Through the sunshine or the snow: Where thou dwellest I will dwell, In a court or in a cell: All thy people mine shall be, Since myself is one with t...

With the exception of the Seatons, there was no one at Chayford that Isabel Carnaby liked so well as the Fords; for she felt--as most people did who were brought under the spell...

One afternoon, not long after Isabel's visit to Chayford, Paul was having tea at the Farleys' house in Prince's Gate; and Lady Esdaile was there also, looking prettier than ever...

You took my heart and made it beat, Then trampled it beneath your feet And watched its cracks and creases. Unless I make a great mistake, A heart thus hurt was bound to break; S...

He proved that Hope was all a lie, And Faith a form of bigotry, And Love a snare that caught him; Then thought to comfort human tears By sundry ill-considered sneers At things h...

It was in the following winter that Paul Seaton's great book, _Some Better Thing_, took the literary world by storm, and carried its author at one bound from mere notoriety to a...

There was a large house-party at Vernacre Park at Easter, to meet Miss Carnaby, who had just become engaged to the host, Lord Wrexham. Old Lady Wrexham played the part of hostes...

"As I have often remarked," said Isabel one hot June morning, as she and Lady Farley were sitting together in the latter's boudoir, "the world--as the world--has nothing better...

There were many who strove in the battle of life, Who shared in the struggle and joined in the strife And fought to their uttermost breath; But some stood aside while the battle...

Early in October Isabel came back to town, and again took up her abode at her uncle's house in Prince's Gate. Lady Farley had been naturally much disappointed at the breaking of...

"My dear, I am very glad you have told me," Joanna continued, as she softly stroked Isabel's hair; "it is an unspeakable joy to me to find that Paul never really fell below hims...

By this time Alice's views of life had completely changed. She had not only forgotten that she had ever loved Paul--a comparatively trifling feat; she had not only fallen in lov...

Paul Seaton was one of the men who possess the useful knack of knowing when the tide of their affairs is at the flood; so when Mr. Ford asked him to come down and fight the Libe...

One summer's day it happened that Mr. Kesterton gave a tea-party on the terrace of the House of Commons in honour of the Robert Thistletowns, the Paul Seatons and Lady Farley. I...