The Restless Sex

"She was dying when the case was ready. Nobody knew she was mortally ill.... I suppose my father saw disgrace staring him in the face.... He made a last effort to see her. He di...

"Hell," he said pleasantly, "cut out the tragedy! It's good enough for my novel, where the poor devils I write about have to do what I make 'em. But you and I are free to do wha...

"Oh, Jim," she stammered, "I haven't even told you how those inherited traits have raised the deuce with me. I've got in me all the low instincts, all the indolence, the selfish...

"I'm afraid I am.... Anyway, I shall not let him go until I am quite certain.... It's abominable that he should have made of me a thing with which I never have had any patience-...

Miss Quest is inclined to think that a course in hospital training under her direct supervision might prove acceptable to you. This you could have in the institution endowed by...

"Only what you have seen, what you have lived and seen others live; only what you detect from the clear-minded, cool, emotionless analysis of your own people, is worth the telli...

"_That_ is enough. If you really think it, that means everything, Cleland.... And this is my chance to tell you that when I--married her--I never dreamed that it could ever be a...

"Let the matter stand this way until I can consult my attorney and investigate the entire affair. Take her into your home. But remember that she is to bear her own name; that th...

"But it really doesn't matter. The main idea is to be free--free of debt, free of expensive impedimenta which cause one anxiety, free from the importunities and restrictions of...

"In my bed-room. I had not gone out. I heard the maid tell you I was out motoring. I meant to speak to you--but you have been so--so unfriendly lately.... And then that woman ca...

"Well, a literary hero," he said, "is one who puts it over big on his first novel. The country goes crazy about his book, the girls go crazy over _him_, publishers go panting af...

Then he caught her in his arms again, and she threw back her lovely head, looking at him with frightened eyes, defending her lips with a bare, jewelled arm across them.

"Not at all. That's one of the reasons _I_ don't. The opinion of ordinary people does not concern me," she said with gay impudence, "and if your book is a best seller it ought t...

Harry Belter is such a funny, fat man. He asks after you every time I meet him. I sent you some of his cartoons in the _Star_. Badger Spink is an odd sort of man with his big, b...

"It did. If you wish to know exactly what, I'll tell you what happened to me was a woman. Now you know something that nobody else knows--except that demon and myself."

And the instant she arrived he noticed what this last brief absence had done for her; how subtly her maturing self-confidence had altered the situation, placing her on a new foo...

"I believe," he said aloud to himself, "that I'm falling very seriously in love with Steve.... And if I am, it's a rather desperate outlook.... She _seems_ to be in love with Gr...

It is drama, comedy, farce, tragedy, this inevitable awakening; it is the alternate elucidation and deepening of mysteries; it is a day of clear, keen reasoning succeeding a day...

Stephanie Quest was introduced to society when she was eighteen, and was not a success. She had every chance at her debut to prove popular, but she remained passive, charmingly...

But the idea, of course, seemed hopeless, impossible! It was not fair to his only son. Everything that he had was his son's--everything he had to give--care, sympathy, love, wor...

Always at breakfast he had read aloud the items of interest--news concerning President Roosevelt--the boy's hero--and his administration; Governor Hughes and _his_ administratio...

They danced together whatever came; Stephanie, like a child fearful of being abandoned, kept one slim jewelled hand fast hold of his sleeve or girdle when they were not dancing....

"I need a lot of things. We'll go to the shops first. Then we'll lunch together, then we can take in a movie, then we'll dine all by ourselves, and then go to the theatre. What...

She took the stiff attitude of the wonderful Burmese idol, and threw back her slender hands--"This sort of thing, Jim? Tiny gold bells on our ankles and that wonderful golden fi...

A fool proceeding, for the inherited mania for invention obsessed him and he began to invent gods. The only kind of gods that his imagination could conceive were various varieti...

The buckboard turned from the station road into a fragrant wood-road. In the scented dusk little night-moths with glistening wings drifted through the rays of the wagon-lamp lik...