Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Without doubt this silent man was ready to speak at last--to tear aside the veil of reserve, behind which he was wont to take refuge. And this to the eyes of Alice Huston's husband. His was a nature capable of immense self-sacrifice, and to this capability had been added an al...
Without doubt this silent man was ready to speak at last--to tear aside the veil of reserve, behind which he was wont to take refuge. And this to the eyes of Alice Huston's husb...
2. CHAPTER II.Like one in a dream Theodore Trist passed out into the narrow street somewhat later. It was nearly three o'clock in the morning; the ball was scarcely over, and yet to this unim...
3. CHAPTER III.'There are some lives,' she said, 'which seem to be allowed as a warning and lesson to the rest of us. No doubt it is very instructive to the onlookers; but I am sometimes a lit...
4. CHAPTER IV.In his inner life--his domestic environments--Theodore Trist was not a comfortable man. There are some who, possessing luxurious ways, seem to pass through the trials and petty...
5. CHAPTER V.Theodore Trist had not over-estimated his powers in informing Brenda that he had some influence with the newspapers. The story of Captain Huston's sudden death never became publ...
6. CHAPTER VI.In a quiet street leading out of the Boulevard de la Madeleine, there is a large red-stone house with golden letters, each the size of a man, between the windows of the second a...
7. CHAPTER VII.In Suffolk Mansions the absence of Alice Huston left a less perceptible vacuum than that lady would have imagined. Mrs. Wylie was intensely relieved that the young widow had, so...
8. CHAPTER VIII.When Mrs. Wylie returned home about five o'clock she found the drawing-room still in darkness. The maid had offered to light the gas, but Brenda told her to leave it. In the ple...
9. CHAPTER IX.It does not fall to the lot of many travellers by sea to plough through the yellow broken waters of the German Ocean where the coast of Suffolk lies low and fertile. Thus it hap...
10. CHAPTER X.It happened that there were some warm balmy days towards the end of March, and on one of these Theodore Trist arrived at Wyvenwich. Mrs. Wylie and Brenda were on the little plat...
11. CHAPTER XI.In the course of a few hours Theodore Trist was quite at home at Wyl's Hall. These three people had lived together before, and knew each other's little ways. Mrs. Wylie, the per...
12. CHAPTER XII.I have often wondered why blasphemy is excusable when it is spoken from a throne. It seems to me that many crimes have been deliberately set forth upon paper under the exculpati...
13. CHAPTER XIII.There is in one of the minor streets of Plevna a small baker's shop, with no other sign indicating that bread may be bought within than the painted semblance of a curiously twis...
14. CHAPTER XIV.For five days and five nights there was little sleep to be had in Plevna. The Russians did not attack, as had been generally expected within the town, but commenced a terrible b...
15. CHAPTER XV.All through the rough autumn, and on into midwinter, Plevna held out. All the world waited and watched, sympathizing, as is its way, with the side where sheer pluck seems predom...