A Prince of Sinners E Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 2 pps

... usual dinner this evening as papa had to leave so early." A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 2 THE BULLSOM FAMILY AT HOME There were fans upon the wall, and much ... she remarked. "I mean that you are a man, and at a dance that means everything. That is why I rather dislike dances. We are too dependent upon you. If you would on...

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... father declared, "before breakfast is the time to dress, and not afterwards. You're always the same, Selina, underdressed when you think there's no one around to see you, and overdressed ... she married a gentleman. He was a blackguard, but hang it, Mary, if I were you I'd sooner be penniless and as you are than be my daughters with five thousand apiece." The...

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... people. I am sure there are more impossibilities in the peerage than in the nouveaux riches. I know heaps of people who because their names are in Debrett seem to think that manners are unnecessary, ... "have been very pleasant. It has all been such a different life for me. A few months ago I knew no one except a few of the Medchester people, and was working hard to make a...

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... third stage whisper had reached her mother and the ladies finally departed, he was in a state of geniality bordering upon beatitude. There was a general move to his end of the table. Mr. Bullsom ... Arranmore estates, and from that time till a few years ago, when he was advertised for, not a soul knew his whereabouts. Even now I am told that he keeps the story of all these y...

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... jolly well certain of one thing. You've done A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 Already the sweepers were busy in the deserted hall, and the lights burned low. ... different radical schemes which we have on the programme. Why, the tears were actually in his eyes when he spoke of the Old Age Pension Bill. He told them over and over a...

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... smoke. There seemed to be no tangible reason for the change. The political excitement, which a few weeks ago he had begun to feel exhilarating, had for him decreased now that his share in ... certainly interested him in a manner which the rest of the family had not, he had after all seen but very A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 3 KINGST...

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... break over the land. Meanwhile, the streets were filled with unemployed, whose demeanour day by day grew less and less pacific. People asked one another helplessly what was being done to avert ... manufactures were being imported from the States and elsewhere at prices which the local manufacturers declared to be ruinous. Many of the largest factories were standing idle, a great maj...

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... admitted, "my headache and appetite were stronger than my sense of the conventions. Now that the former are dissipated the latter are beginning to assert themselves. And so " She began ... positions." A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 5 THE MARQUIS OF ARRANMORE They had met almost on the steps of his office, and only a...

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... times as these an almost repellent hardness. His emotions, and the man himself, seemed frozen. Lady Caroom had seen him look like it once before, and she sighed. Nevertheless, she persevered. ... moments passed altogether away, seemed to deepen every line in his hard, clear-cut face. His mouth was close drawn, his eyes were suddenly colder and expressionless. There was about him at such...

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... fund has become absolutely necessary unless we wish to see the people starve in the streets. There are between six and seven thousand operatives and artisans in Medchester to-day who are without ... better place for it. Your reasoning is very excellent, but life has not yet become an exact science. The weaknesses of men and women have to be considered. You have probably never seen a...

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