Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction, Volúmenes51-52current literature Publishing Company, 1903 |
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Página 57 - All service ranks the same with God: If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work— God's puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first. Say not 'a small event!' Why 'small'? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A 'great event,
Página 57 - If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first. Say not 'a small event!' Why 'small?' Costs it more pain that this, ye call A 'great event' should come to pass, Than that?
Página 93 - It is no wonder,' said the lords, ' She is more beautiful than day.' As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen : One praised her ankles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been : Cophetua sware a royal oath : ' This beggar maid shall be my queen...
Página 236 - ... apparently lame on every leg, in charge of the remains of the understrapper, to her destination. They continued with the consolation of the hospital nurse, and embraced in varying pecuniary degrees the compensation of the sandwich man, the newspaper boy, and the proprietor of the hat shop. During all this time he enjoyed the unfaltering attention of a fair-sized crowd, liberal in comment, prolific of imbecile suggestion. And all these things were only the beginning of the trouble. Mr. Gunning...
Página 249 - I've done nothing to him," said Fanny Fitz guiltily. "Give me the hammer!" said Mrs. Carteret. "Have I eyes, or have I not?" "He's awfully keen about her!" Mrs. Carteret said that evening to her husband. "Bad temper is one of the worst signs. Men in love are always cross.
Página 247 - ... at him, with her bright hair roughened, and the afterglow of the dance alight in her eyes and cheeks. Nevertheless, for one whirling moment, the old Adam, an Adam blissfully unaware of the existence of Eve, asserted himself in Rupert. He picked up his cap and stick without a word, and turned towards the door. There, however, he was confronted by Mrs. Carteret, tugging at a line of chairs attached to a plank, like a very small bird with a very large twig. To refuse the aid that she immediately...
Página 246 - Dotted at intervals throughout society are the people endowed with the faculty for "getting up things ". They are dauntless people, filled with the power of driving lesser and deeper reluctant spirits before them ; remorseless to the timid, carneying to the stubborn, Of such was Mrs. Carteret, with powers matured in hill-stations in India, mellowed by much voyaging in P. and O. steamers. Not even an environment as unpromising as that of Enniscar in its winter torpor had power to dismay her. A public...
Página 240 - Mr. Gunning reflected that by this time the grey mare had extended herself once for all in Brennan's back-yard : he had done nothing to be ashamed of, but he felt abjectly guilty. " If I go with Maudie to Connemara again next year," continued Fanny, "I must look out for another. You'll come too, I hope? A little opposition is such a help in making up one's mind ! I don't know what I should have done without you at Leenane last June ! " Perhaps it was the vision of early summer that the words called...