Category: Novels
Madame de Treymes
John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens.
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuil...
2. Chapter 2"It's not that; it is that, if I went to her friends, I should never get her real opinion from them. At least I should never know if it _was_ her real opinion; and therefore I s...
3. Chapter 3The smile put Durham more completely at his ease, and after waiting for her to speak, he added with deliberation: "So far, however, the wishing is entirely on my side." His scru...
4. Chapter 4"Oh, yes: just what I've said. It was really her admiration of _you_--of your attitude--your delicacy. She said that at first she hadn't believed in it: they're always looking f...
5. Chapter 5"Having refused me? Don't!" She spoke with deep seriousness, bending her eyes full on his: "Ah, I have suffered--suffered! But I have learned also--my life has been enlarged. Yo...