Category: Novels

Honeycomb

When Miriam got out of the train into the darkness she knew that there were woods all about her. The moist air was rich with the smell of trees--wet bark and branches--moss and lichen, damp dead leaves. She stood on the dark platform snuffing the rich air. It was the end of he...

Chapters

10. CHAPTER X

Coming home at ten o’clock in the morning, Miriam found the little villa standing quiet and empty in the sunshine. The sound of her coming down the empty tree-lined roadway had...

3. CHAPTER III

The next day the ground was powdered with snow. Large snowflakes were hurrying through the air driving to and fro on a harsh wind. The wind snored round the house like a flame a...

11. CHAPTER XI

Miriam sat with her mother near the bandstand. They faced the length of the esplanade with the row of houses that held their lodging to their right and the sea away to the left....

4. CHAPTER IV

During her second week of giving the children their morning’s lessons Miriam saw finally that it was impossible and would always be impossible to make their two hours of applica...

1. CHAPTER I

When Miriam got out of the train into the darkness she knew that there were woods all about her. The moist air was rich with the smell of trees--wet bark and branches--moss and...

9. CHAPTER IX

But the next evening when Mr. Corrie came down for the week-end with a party of guests, Mrs. Corrie appeared with swift suddenness in Miriam’s room and glanced at her morning dr...

5. CHAPTER V

It was quite a long letter--signed with a large “Bob” set crosswise. It began by asking her advice about a wedding present for Harriett and ended with the suggestion that she sh...

8. CHAPTER VIII

When May came life lay round Miriam without a flaw. She seemed to have reached the summit of a hill up which she had been climbing ever since she came to Newlands. The weeks had...

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2. CHAPTER II

As Miriam sat having tea with the children in the dining-room the brougham drove up to the door. “There’s someone arriving,” she said, hoping to distract the attention of the ch...

7. CHAPTER VII

The next morning there was a letter from Bob containing a page of description of his dull afternoon at his club within half a mile of her. “Let me know, my dear girl,” it went o...

6. CHAPTER VI

The West End street ... grey buildings rising on either side, feeling away into the approaching distance--angles sharp against the sky ... softened angles of buildings against o...