Man and Maid

At ten o'clock I was waiting for her in the sitting-room, and I was thinking of that other time when I waited in anxiety, in case she did not return at all. I was very excited,...

For a second a blank look came into her expression. I was banking on my knowledge of the psychology of a human mind, the predatory instinct must inevitably be aroused in her by...

We went straight into the sitting-room and I sat down in my chair. Her maid, named Henriette, had taken her cloak and hat in the hall, and I suppose from sheer nervousness, and...

I asked her to play to me at last, I was growing so apprehensive, and she went from one divine thing to another for quite an hour, and then at ten o'clock stopped and said a dig...

"Well, now, I have a suggestion to make which I am sure will please you, and that is that you will appoint some meeting place with Mr. Nelson for Tuesday morning, since you do n...

"The bargain," I went on, "would be quite a fair one. I am offering to buy a thing which is not for sale--therefore, I am willing to pay whatever would tempt the owner to part w...

"Well, I must not think of them, or of anything but what a good time we shall all have when the war is over, and what nice things I've bought in Paris--and of how good-looking J...

"Heloise de Tavantaine--my Cousin's Jew daughter-in-law--paid four thousand francs for a new evening dress, which did not cover a tenth of her fat body--Four thousand francs wou...

"--At that her tears burst out afresh--She had no glasses on, and she looked no more than sixteen years old, give you my word Sir--She thanked me like as if it was something rea...

I felt like a cross, disappointed child--I knew they were both right though; I was feeling pretty tired and had not an idea in my head. But if I did that, there would be a chanc...

"I saw her outside a wine shop once when I got off the tram at Auteuil--She was looking at the bottles of port--and I made so as to pass, and her not see me, but she turned and...

It is Sunday morning, and this afternoon I shall hire the one motor which can be obtained here, at a fabulous price, and go into Paris. There are some books I want to get out of...

"I think you had better take Jim my dear, after all. You are evidently becoming in love with him and you have proved to me that the physical charm matters most,--or if you are a...

How I love Versailles--the jolliest old hole on earth--(I wonder why one uses slang like this, I had written those words as an exact reflection of my thoughts--and nothing could...

Then he went on with evident constraint to tell me that the rest of the letter said that while she was working on Friday a "Mademoiselle la Blonde" called, and insisted upon pas...

What voices mean to one!--The delight of that exquisite sound of refinement in the pronunciation. Miss Sharp never misplaces an inflection or slurs a word, she never uses slang,...

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I wanted to run about! I wanted to shout and sing. I played idiotic tricks, walking backwards and forwards, like one of Shackleton's penguins. Then I went back to the glass agai...