... trouble. There ain't no sense in it."
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 13
"Our cattle were all played out," Saxon was saying, "and winter was ...
"Nope." Billy shook his head. "S and W, because you come first with me."
"If I come first with you, you come first with us. Billy, dear, I insist on W and S."
"You ... Billy, see the engraving on the inside."
"C to D, 18 79," he read.
"Carlton to Daisy Carlton was my father's first name. And now, Billy, you've got
to get it engraved...
... family had not, he had after all seen but very
A Prince of Sinners
E. Phillips Oppenheim
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 3
KINGSTON BROOKS HAS A VISITOR
Kingston Brooks was twenty-five years old, strong, ... had been living for years in profound solitude when I
found him. Frankly, I considered from the first that his mind was unhinged.
Therein I fancy lies the whole explanation of his silence and ... into the heart
of life. He was a young solicitor recently established in Medchester, without
friends save those he was now making, and absolutely without interest of any
sort. He had a small...
... election committee, mapping out the course of
A Prince of Sinners
E. Phillips Oppenheim
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 14
AN AWKWARD QUESTION
"You think they really liked it, then?"
"How ... sometimes becomes a little difficult."
"Have you friends in London?" he asked.
"None! I tried living there when I first came back for a few weeks, but it was
impossible." ... he was conscious of
certain personal qualities, which he had realized and understood from the first.
She carried herself well, she walked with the free graceful movements of a well-
bred and...
... unsought,
and that I do not find it pleasant to be called a liar under my own roof and
before my friends. "
"It is incredible," he said, softly, "but it is true. You are the ...
him."
"You did both," she answered, fiercely. "You were his evil genius from the first.
It was through you he took to drink, through you he became a gambler. You
encouraged him ... acquaintance with me I should
scarcely have a moment to call my own, or a house fit to ask my friends to visit.
Be so good as to make my answer sufficiently explicit."
"It is unnecessary,...
... All
the moles are not caught by the mole-trapper.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 9
Hate is as Strong as Love
Queen Anne had several of these low voices about her. ... unconscious, Josiana
rendered Barkilphedro.
Thought is a projectile. Barkilphedro had, from the first day, begun to aim at
Josiana the evil intentions which were in his mind. An intention and ... for the tranquillity of her sleep, she was in complete ignorance of what
was in the man.
Bodin [12 ] has perhaps this terrible triple sense: search for the torture; suffering of
the tortured;...
... reaction against the wig was beginning.
Just as in 18 24 Eugene Deveria was the first to allow his beard to grow, so in 17 02
Prince Devereux was the first to risk wearing his own hair in public disguised ... Prince Devereux was the first,
Lord David Dirry-Moir the second. It is sometimes more difficult to be second
than first. It requires less genius, but more courage. The first, intoxicated by the ... to take the place
of the Rota, founded by Milton.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 4
The Leader of Fashion
Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to be scarcely...
... Then it throws its
rider, and you have 16 42 in England and 17 89 in France; and sometimes it devours
him, and you have in England 16 49, and in France 17 93. That the lion should
relapse into ... that
is all that is asked of the sovereign of England. He receives for that nothing
1, 250,000 a year. In 17 05, England which had had but thirteen men of war under
Elizabeth, and thirty-six ... Anne, a wife complicated by Bolingbroke.
III.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 5
Queen Anne
I.
Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinary...