Category: Novels
“It’s a great deal more,” said Lucy. “Why, Miss Jones at the school is a nice young woman--don’t you be taken in by mother’s old-fashioned stilts. She is a darling--she is as nice as nice can be. She’s pretty, and she’s good, and she’s clever. She has read a lot, and seen a lo...
After the most successful party, even if it is only a garden party, a flatness is apt to fall upon the family of the entertainers who have been so nobly doing their best to amus...
4. CHAPTER IV.The little house called Greenbank was like a hundred other little houses in the country, the superior houses of the village, the homes of small people with small incomes, who st...
2. CHAPTER II.It was a lingering and pleasant walk with many little pauses in it and much conversation. Lucy was herself the cause of some of them, for it was quite necessary that here and th...
1. CHAPTER I.“It’s a great deal more,” said Lucy. “Why, Miss Jones at the school is a nice young woman--don’t you be taken in by mother’s old-fashioned stilts. She is a darling--she is as ni...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Wradisley had never been known to give so much attention to any of his mother’s entertainments before. Those which were more exclusively his own, the periodical dinners, the...
3. CHAPTER III.The door of the little house was standing open when they drew up at the gate. It was a door at the side round the corner from the veranda, but with a porch which seemed to conti...
5. CHAPTER V.The dinner was quite a cheerful meal at Wradisbury that night. The master of the house was exactly as he always was. Punctilious in every kindness and politeness, perfect in his...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mrs. Nugent had been very unwilling to fulfill her promise and appear at Mrs. Wradisley’s party. She had put off her arrival till the last moment, and as she walked up from the...
7. CHAPTER VII.Bertram soon lost himself among the crowd on the lawn, among all the county people and the village people, making his way out and in, in a solitude which never feels so great as...