Category: Novels
It seemed to them at first, the offer, too good to be true, and their friend's letter, addressed to them to feel, as he said, the ground, to sound them as to inclinations and possibilities, had almost the effect of a brave joke at their expense. Their friend, Mr. Grant-Jackson...
This was the greater complication that, with the return of the spring and the increase of the public, her services were more required. She took the field with him from an early...
2. Part 2"That's just why they come, that they take such an interest. I sometimes think they take more than about anything else in the world." With which Miss Putchin looked about at the...
1. Part 1It seemed to them at first, the offer, too good to be true, and their friend's letter, addressed to them to feel, as he said, the ground, to sound them as to inclinations and po...
5. Part 5"We stand here, you see, in the old living-room, happily still to be reconstructed in the mind's eye, in spite of the havoc of time, which we have fortunately of late years been...
4. Part 4Gedge, with his key on his forefinger, leaned against the door-post, took in the stupid little street and was sorry to see them go--they seemed so to abandon him. "That's just w...
6. Part 6This was very well, but it didn't prevent his heart, a minute later, at the end of the passage, from thumping with beats he could count. He had paused again before going in; on...