Category: Novels
The household gods that have lain four years in storage are grouped round me, showing familiar faces. It’s nice of them not to have changed more, grown up as children do or got older like one’s friends. They don’t harmonize with the furniture--this is an _appartement meublé_--...
The household gods that have lain four years in storage are grouped round me, showing familiar faces. It’s nice of them not to have changed more, grown up as children do or got...
2. Part 2I feel that, in a purely neighborly spirit, I ought to have an illness. I would like to help all young people starting in business, take all the hansoms that go drearily trailin...
3. Part 3“I’ll tell him it was yours and how willingly you gave it up,” she said, moving toward the door. Then she stopped suddenly and looked at the center-table lamp. “He’s a great rea...
4. Part 4“Lizzie Harris on a program--never!” Then suddenly serious, “I like Bonaventura--‘Did you _hear_ Bonaventura last night in _Tannhäuser_’--strong accent on the hear. ‘How superb...
5. Part 5“Oh!” Betty breathed out and leaned against her chair-back, with a slight creaking of tight drawn fabrics. But she kept her eye on me, in a sidelong glance, that contained an el...
6. Part 6I feel sick, for I love her. If she hasn’t got a soul or temperament or any of the rest of it that they do so much talking about, she’s got something tucked away somewhere that’...
7. Part 7For the first time in my experience of her I saw she was not open with herself. I knew that she had realized her failure and refused to admit it. She leaned forward, her elbows...
8. Part 8She went down to dress and presently the news percolated through the house. There was an opening and shutting of doors and whisperings on the top flight. Everybody stole up and...
9. Part 9LIZZIE is coming to life, hesitatingly and as if with reluctance. I suppose it’s natural for her to be extraordinarily weak, but I never would have believed she could be conscio...
10. Part 10Lizzie and Berwick listened. I had never heard him do anything else. Before I came to live here if I had been told of the excellence of his vocal performance and then seen him I...
11. Part 11Betty was there and Harry Ferguson, Harry obviously ill at ease. I know just how he felt--as if he was too big for the chairs, and when he spoke it sounded like a stevedore. I u...
12. Part 12Memories of her keep coming up, throwing oranges out of the window, listening hungrily to Mrs. Stregazzi (fancy Mrs. Stregazzi at Mrs. Ashworth’s tea table talking about her cor...
13. Part 13“No, I don’t.” She was sitting cross-legged, holding an ankle in each hand and rocking gently. “I’ll tell you just what I think--I believe they were lonely. Lots of people get m...
14. Part 14Thus encouraged, Roger emerged from his astonishment. He was not as debonair as at the beginning, also he evidently wasn’t sure just what it was all about, but he seized upon th...
15. Part 15Then suddenly I dropped my rouge and gave a smothered cry--I heard Lizzie calling my name. For a moment power of movement seemed stricken from me. I had not thought that she wou...
16. Part 16It was two years before Liza Bonaventura made her first hit, as Elizabeth in _Tannhäuser_ at Dresden. Then we could follow her course in the papers. I was as proud as if I’d don...