The Furnace

Royalty was arriving in the harbour in a steam-yacht. It had, that is, already arrived in the harbour; it was now disembarking on the pier. It was an interesting event. An edifi...

Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture? Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung? Or the attraction...

The Crevequers, as they had anticipated, did eat too much at lunch--a good deal too much. They cast, occasionally, wondering and interested glances round the dining-room, and to...

'The internal nature of each being is surrounded by a circle, not to be surmounted by his fellows; and it is this repulsion which constitutes the misfortune of the condition of...

'Why should I care for the ages, Because they are old and grey? To me, like sudden laughter, The stars are fresh and gay. The world is a daring fancy, And finished yesterday.' G...

'Les clefs des portes sont perdues, Il faut attendre, il faut attendre, Les clefs sont tombees de la tour, Il faut attendre, il faut attendre, Il faut attendre d'autres jours......

partly accountable. Tommy wrangled with his editor, disputed truculently with the good-tempered Luli, assumed a mien of impertinent defiance towards his more urgent creditors, a...

'D'autres jours ouvriront les portes, La foret garde les verrous, La foret brule autour de nous, C'est la clarte des feuilles mortes, Qui brulent sur le seuil des portes....' MA...

It was hard to deny Mrs. Venables entrance; her intimacy was so all-reaching. The Crevequers did not see how it was to be done. Betty almost reached the conclusion that it could...

'Ahi quanto a dir qual era e cosa dura Questa selva selvaggia ed aspra e forte, Che nel pensier rinnova la paura! Tanto e amara, che poco e piu morte: Ma per trattar del ben ch'...

Through the black, slow hours Betty stared with wide unswerving eyes at the other arm-chair. On one of its arms lay a pipe, on the other a half-finished drawing. Between them, i...

'We are the creatures of birth, of ancestry, of circumstance; we are surrounded by law, physical and psychical.... The ways are dark, and the grey years bring a mysterious futur...

'So much fate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration, enters into life, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to...

A dozen or so of the Crevequers' friends came down to the harbour to see them off to Santa Caterina. The Crevequers leaned over the rail of the crowded launch, which was bearing...