Poor Relations

There was nothing to distinguish the departure of the _Murmania_ from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangwa...

"It seems almost too perky for a tramp, sir; and my sister's boy--well, he's just at the age when they like to dress theirselves up a bit. He's doing very well, too. His employe...

The selection of presents for children is never easy, because in order to extract real pleasure from the purchase it is necessary to find something that excites the donor as muc...

Early next morning John dreamed that he was buying calico in an immense shop and that in a dreamlike inconsequence the people there, customers and shopmen alike, were abruptly s...

Mrs. George Touchwood--or as she was known on the stage, Miss Eleanor Cartright--was big-boned, handsome, and hawklike, with the hungry look of the ambitious actress who is draw...

If a taxi had lurked in any of the melancholy streets through which John was making his way to Hill Road he would have taken refuge in it gratefully, for there was no atmosphere...

John came to the conclusion while he was driving to Earl's Court that the distinctive anxiety in losing two children was to be sought for in an acute consciousness of their mobi...

John decided to walk from Earl's Court to West Kensington. Being still in complete ignorance of what Hugh had done, he had a presentiment that this time it was something really...

A sudden apprehension of his bulk (though he was only comparatively massive) overcame John when he stood inside the tiny drawing-room of 83 Camera Square; and it was not until t...

When after lunch on Wednesday afternoon John relinquished Miss Hamilton to the company of her friend Miss Merritt at Charing Cross Station, he was relinquishing a secretary from...

Whether it was due to the Christmas card look of his new house or merely to a desire to flaunt a romantic hospitality in the face of his eldest brother, it is certain that John...

John did not consider himself a first-class whip: if he had been offered the choice between swimming to meet his love like Leander, climbing into her father's orchard like Romeo...

After the Christmas party at Ambles John managed to secure a tranquillity that, however brief and deceptive he felt it was like to be, nevertheless encouraged him sufficiently t...

The buzz of gossip, the sting of scandalous paragraph, even the blundering impertinence of the actor-knight were all forgotten the following afternoon when a telegram arrived fr...

John waited in considerable anxiety for Miss Hamilton's reply to his letter, and when a few days later she answered his appeal in person by presenting herself for work as usual...

John's first impulse had been to pour out in Miss Hamilton's ears the tale of his wrongs, and afterward, when he had sufficiently impressed her with the danger of the position i...