his life Comus appeared to have an idea of behaving sensibly and making some use of his opportuniti...
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resolutely he might hold himself aloof from the social life of his restaurant acquaintances, he was...
"When you are safely married and honey-mooned and all that sort of thing, and have put your wife th...
The Unbearable Bassington by "Saki" [H. H. Munro] CHAPTER I FRANCESCA BASSINGTON sat in the drawi...
"Did you come across any of the Barnets when you were down there?" she interrupted; "Eliza Barnet i...
never have been a boy.' Perhaps that is the meaning of the 'Never- never Land.' I daresay you're ri...
say. To Sir Julian the appointment was, doubtless, one of some importance; during the span of his G...
The aunt suppressed a gasp of admiration. "Was the Prince killed by a sheep or by a clock?" asked ...
mud at the bottom of a waterless pool, and my uncle was able to walk down to him and fold him to hi...
with her for four or five hours. The trouble is that I'm not likely to get anything like that amoun...
agitated guest a cup of tea. "I forget if you take sugar. I suppose the solitary life it leads has ...
believe in being firm." "Firm? I am firm," exclaimed Mrs. Attray; "I am more than firm - I am fars...
"To neither," said Egbert, drawing a stack of notepaper towards him; "I'm going to write to the edi...
circles," said Mrs. Eggelby stiffly. "No one who knows Hildegarde could possibly accuse her of mov...
"We may be here all night!" exclaimed Abbleway. The woman nodded as though she thought it possible....