The Career of Claudia

She was, it must be owned, rather surprised that no one had come to meet her at the station. Certainly she had assured them in her last letter that it was unnecessary, and that...

"Of course you like him," said the girl. "I think he is a capital fellow, and that's the pity of it. Yes, yes, I know. He and you are convinced that he will do very well by-and-...

As age creeps on, there are other deaths than those we mourn openly. Sometimes hope dies, or faith, or love--and from the infinite blackness of such loss, may God in His mercy k...

Claudia had her breathing space, and at first enjoyed it. Her cousins were kind without being curious; she could say as little or as much as she liked about her engagement, and...

"There's nothing so wonderful about it, is there?" he said slowly. "I suppose it began from the first moment I saw you, and it has gone on. Can't you give me a little hope? I kn...

Huntingdon Hall was a comfortable house, with rooms which Lady Wilmot had already transformed. The grounds, however, were not to compare with those of Thornbury, for they had pa...

Miss Arbuthnot was everywhere, and Mr Pelham shadowed her. Opinions were freely bandied as to the existence or non-existence of an engagement, the majority inclining to the beli...

The march past was one of those brilliant spectacles with which the camp delights its visitors. Royalty was there--indeed, royalties had gathered; the day was perfect, not over-...

Miss Arbuthnot, when she appeared, awoke no remembrances of the college. She was a woman of past thirty, large, massive, and sleepy-looking. Claudia saw the meeting between her...

The second doctor came, and his opinion was, on the whole, less unsatisfactory. He allowed that there was reason for alarm, and that some of the symptoms were perplexing, but wi...

She awoke early and sprang up at once, fresh as the morning itself, and when she went to the window all her ambitions rushed to the front. What were people compared with those g...

Claudia's young and vigorous interests were attracted by all that was connected with the camp, too much so, indeed, to please Fenwick. She ran out whenever a regiment passed, or...

For the first minutes Claudia could realise nothing but confusion, and a dreadful sense of terror; for the shock to herself had been so great as to set her head whirling, and pr...

Claudia was ungratefully anxious to leave Thornbury. She had been happy there, but the young expect to be happy, and the last days had made her uncomfortable. Harry said no word...

The result of Fenwick's meditation might have been foreseen; he felt himself the injured person, and went resignedly to the hut on the following day, prepared to act with magnan...

Claudia, sitting under the great beech with Harry Hilton, was becoming interested in her listener, because he showed what she called a recipient mind, meaning that he attended t...

If the wonder Philippa expressed related to Claudia's own feelings, she need have had no misgivings. In spite of hesitation, reluctance, beforehand, in spite of the coldness whi...

Anne was in the drawing-room when Claudia reached Elmslie, Anne unquestioning and kindly. Claudia felt herself made welcome, and was conscious of a quiet atmosphere, grateful af...

Helen Arbuthnot was used to come and go as she liked at Thornbury, but it was not very often that she returned within a week of taking leave. She had done so now, making some sl...

A writer has said, and with truth, that while a woman expects her friends to belong, as it were, to her whole life, and to adapt themselves to its many sides, a man, instead of...