Category: Romance
“Yes,” answered Lucilla Dor, untroubled, in that contented, caressing voice of hers, while, her elbow on the table, with the “languid grace,” about which Ruth chaffed her a good deal, she pensively nibbled a fig. “The admiration is reciprocal. What a handsome fellow he is!”
“He's delightful,” said Lucilla; “so simple and unassuming, and unspoiled. And so romantic--like one of Daudet's _rois en exil_. And he has such nice eyes, and such a nice slim...
12. Part 12Miss Adgate doubtless was a sight for the gods, when (conducted by her uncle) she went the following evening to the Oldbridge Industrial Exhibits. As she was led first by young...
2. Part 2But Vincent put in a quick disclaimer. “Oh, no; oh dear, no. I don't know that she's a snob--any more than every one is in England. I mean that she happens to belong to the set...
9. Part 9Ruth, in a misery of wild light-headedness, responded as well as she could to the civilities of her two travelling companions, while they drove through narrow, animated streets....
3. Part 3“There was Newhampton, for instance,” Seton complacently babbled on, “the little Duke. Of course, with her supplies, she's had more or less the whole unmarried peerage after her...
13. Part 13But at that instant--while Ruth indulged, I grieve to acknowledge it, the spirit of mockery--a thunderous crash broke the unison of lively voices. The score of people in the roo...
8. Part 8“Ruth, dear, don't feel so.... Darling! I don't wonder, I do not wonder!... But after all, for him, it is an impossible predicament. He is to be pitied. You can do nothing bette...
11. Part 11She rose from her corner of the sofa and seated herself at the piano. _Oft have I travelled in those Realms of Gold_... Presently she had started her two companions, travelling,...
6. Part 6I don't know how it is that certain people, without doing or saying anything that can be taken hold of, yet manage to convey to us a very definite and constant sense that they t...
1. Part 1“Yes,” answered Lucilla Dor, untroubled, in that contented, caressing voice of hers, while, her elbow on the table, with the “languid grace,” about which Ruth chaffed her a good...
10. Part 10“How singular,” she reflected. “The transformation has taken place overnight. It is almost as though I had been here forever! And to-day I feel as though I had a destiny--as tho...
7. Part 7A column from Altronde in the _Fieramosca_ of the morrow gave a glowing description of Bertram's and his mother's arrival, which Pontycroft translated at the breakfast table: ho...
4. Part 4“Yes,” agreed Bertram, smiling, “one has noticed that.” Then, thoughtful-eyed, pacing the floor, the world-traveller spoke: “But America is very big, and very heterogeneous in i...
14. Part 14“And your uncle,” Ponty proceeded, “I like _him_ very much,” he paraphrased. “We held an uproarious pow-wow in the library, the three of us, last night, while you women discusse...