# Idols

Author: Locke, William John, 1863-1930

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56015

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Idols+Locke&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was Irene Merriam’s hour of greatest content when she looked into her heart for a fugitive desire and smiled at finding none. And this was a source of all the more comfort, because she was a woman who gave unsparingly of herself to life, and made large claims upon life in return. She sat in a leathern armchair by the fireplace, listening to the talk of her two companions, who were sitting by the dinner table over their coffee. Now and then she interposed a remark, but lazily, preferring to watch the play of expression on their faces, to dream dreams about them, and to realise her own happiness. This after-dinner scene was a familiar one; familiarity had made it dearer. She had grown to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/idols-56015/chapters/7/index.md)