Category: Novels
It will be recalled without effort--possibly, indeed, without interest--that the obsequies of the old Senator Boligand were a distinguished success: a fashionable, proper function, ordered by the young widow with exquisite taste, as all the world said, and conducted without re...
She was then made happy by his rapturous affection; and she now first perceived--in a benighted way--that virtue was more appealing to him than the sum of her physical attractio...
1. Chapter 1It will be recalled without effort--possibly, indeed, without interest--that the obsequies of the old Senator Boligand were a distinguished success: a fashionable, proper functi...
3. Chapter 3The boy stirred again--and began to mutter in his sleep. At once the woman commanded herself. She stiffened--released herself--pushed the man away. She lifted a hand--until the...
5. Chapter 5"Prayin'!" she repeated, entering on tiptoe. "He's down on his knees--_prayin'_!" She began to pace the floor--wringing her hands: a tragic figure. "It's come, Poddle!" she whim...
4. Chapter 4"Lost him?" she mused. "No--not that. If I'd lost him, Jim, I'd take you. If ever he looked in my eyes--as if I'd lost him--I'd take you. I've give him up; but I ain't lost him....
6. Chapter 6The man laughed. It was in pity--not in merriment. "Well, say," he said, "when you see your mother, you tell her you met Jim Millette on the street. Will you? You tell her Jim's...