Geoffrey Hampstead: A Novel

FERDINAND:... Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have...

After leaving Nina, Jack went to the club, where he found Geoffrey playing pool with half a dozen others, whose demeanor well indicated the number of times the lamp had been rub...

Nothing tends to convince us of the element of chance in our lives more than noticing the consequences of whims. We act and react upon each other, after joining in a movement, t...

Mr. Lindon did not remain long with his family on the trip which Mrs. Lindon thought was only to last a month or two. On arriving in England, he transacted his business in a sho...

Mr. Maurice Rankin was enjoying his summer vacation. Although the courts were closed he still could be seen carrying his blue bag through the street on his way to and from the p...

About two o'clock on this day of the trial, when Geoffrey and all the rest of the bank-clerks were hurrying through their work in order to get out to attend the police court, Mr...

As the afternoon wore on, on that day when the bank lost its $50,000, Geoffrey Hampstead was back at his work as usual. He did not change his waistcoat while at his rooms, becau...

A few days after the disturbance in the dog-cart Geoffrey and Maurice Rankin were dining, on a Sunday, with the Mackintoshes. After dinner a walk was proposed, and Margaret went...

There is a want of primness in the manners and customs of my characters which a reviewer might take exception to. To be sure he might with effect criticise their making up a poo...

How like a younker, or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugged and embraced by the wanton wind. How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weathered...

In the few weeks following the entertainment of the Dusenalls, Hampstead had not seen Nina. He felt he had been doing harm. The memory of that which had occurred and a twinge or...

For in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men; besides, she hath prosperous art, When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can per...

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances incalculable as the descent of thistledown.--GEORGE ELIOT'S...

Spread no wings For sunward flight, thou soul with unplumed vans! Sweet is the lower air and safe, and known The homely levels. Dear is the love, I know, of wife and child; Plea...

Never but once to meet on earth again! She heard me as I fled--her eager tone Sank on my heart, and almost wove a chain Around my will to link it with her own, So that my stern...

How can I tell the feelings in a young lady's mind; the thoughts in a young gentleman's bosom? As Professor Owen takes a fragment of bone and builds a forgotten monster out of i...

What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odors, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bindest thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in its neatness? Oh, h...

BASSANIO: So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious...

Mrs. Dusenall liked the visit to Kingston. She was proud of the appearance her guests and family made at the church, and she thought of going home and writing a book as prodigal...

BRUTUS: O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of m...

Some hearts might have yearned to have been on board during the fishing in Hay Bay, and to have enjoyed those evenings when the yacht anchored in the twilight calm, beside rocky...

Yea, it becomes a man To cherish memory, where he had delight, For kindness is the natural birth of kindness. Whose soul records not the great debt of joy, Is stamped forever an...

When Jack, with the agility of a railroad employe, landed on his feet all right, he stood watching the disappearing train, annoyed, disappointed, and mystified. He usually found...

This is peace! To conquer love of self and lust of life, To tear deep-rooted passion from the breast, To still the inward strife; For glory, to be lord of self;... ... For count...

The Victoria Bank, Toronto, is on the corner of Bay and Front Streets, where it overlooks a part of the harbor large enough to gladden the eyes of the bank-clerks who are aquati...

As Jack expected, it did not take long for his friend Hampstead to show where the mistake about the three cents lay; and then they sallied forth for a little stroll on King Stre...

At the opening of this story, about six months had elapsed since Rankin had been licensed to prey upon the public, and as yet he had not despoiled it to any great extent. If he...

Those aggressive impulses inherited from the pre-social state--those tendencies to seek self-satisfaction regardless of injury to other beings, which are essential to a predator...