Category: Novels
I.--In Forma Pauperis II.--Corpus Delicti III.--Sub Judice IV.--In Loco Parentis V.--De Motu Proprio VI.--Pacta Conventa VII.--Flos Veneris VIII.--Mille Modi Veneris IX.--Non Sequitur X.--Compos Mentis XI.--Quod Erat Faciendum XII.--Nunc Aut Nunquam XIII.--Cui Malo XIV.--Desun...
"When she's ready, I presume.... She's a good girl.... They're good children. They've stayed as long as they could. Their time is nearly up.... But the smallest hut is a big bar...
10. Part 10Edgerton smiled and stood with his left hand in his coat pocket, looking out at the flat field beyond, where half a dozen young people on lively ponies swung their mallets and c...
13. Part 13"But he's merely a foolish, pompous, well-meaning man, slightly silly about all women, but with a very kind heart, I fancy. He is always doing things for me, always strutting ar...
11. Part 11Inwood, searching the house and terrace over for Christine, discovering her at last in the moonlit rose garden, and, not daring to join her after all, so faint hearted he had be...
7. Part 7"No.... I don't know whether I do or not.... I never seem to know what to say to him these days. We talk together like two men. I'd like to know what he thinks about me--the kin...
4. Part 4"Behold me as I am, cousin! Just what you have already divined me, with your eyes too humorous and too wise for a man of thirty--frivolous, feminine, not insensible to flattery,...
9. Part 9"No, I won't! ... Jack! Don't be foolish. I had no idea you had arrived as far as that. I had no reason to think so--to suppose for one moment--because it has always been the jo...
14. Part 14Every shop was now in full swing toward the culminating, scintillating transformation of Christmas; the avenue was crowded with flashing automobiles and carriages, the florists'...
8. Part 8"You have no reason to believe so," she repeated, now thoroughly alarmed at what she'd done; and yet it was what she had deliberately set out to do. Her breath came unevenly. Sh...
3. Part 3"That's true," he repeated; "but if I can't do anything in that way for us among the right sort, at least the other kind will have a man to reckon with"--he glanced at Diana gri...
6. Part 6"Listen to me," he said; "where man's despoiling labor pollutes nature, sadness and resignation make heavy the hearts of her true lovers, but where man's abominable ignorance de...
1. Part 1I.--In Forma Pauperis II.--Corpus Delicti III.--Sub Judice IV.--In Loco Parentis V.--De Motu Proprio VI.--Pacta Conventa VII.--Flos Veneris VIII.--Mille Modi Veneris IX.--Non Se...
2. Part 2"But I've _got_ to! You don't understand. That wretched janitor has put us in a position from which there is absolutely no escape. Because I--we ought to go away instantly--b-bu...
5. Part 5"No doubt," said her sister. "Is that what has aroused the maternal instinct? Come, who is to bathe first. Pull down the shade and turn on the electricity, and ring for the maid...
15. Part 15"By God!" he said, "you're nothing better than any other hired woman! I helped hire you myself." And added, between his teeth: "You little clawing cat! I know damned well you're...