The Woman in WhiteChatto & Windus, 1899 - 614 páginas |
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Página 185 - on the seal, and say,' I deliver this as my act' and deed.' If that is done in a week's time, the arrangement will be perfectly successful, and the anxiety will be all over. If not—" " What do you mean by ' if not ?' " asked Sir Percival, angrily. " If the thing must be done, it
Página 13 - life, whose very presence by my side, at that moment, were fathomless mysteries to me. It was like a dream. Was I Walter Hartright? Was this the wellknown, uneventful road, where holiday people strolled on Sundays? Had I really left, little more than an hour since, the quiet, decent, conventionally-domestic atmosphere of my mother's cottage ? I
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Página 191 - in nine cases out of ten, lose. If the police win, you generally hear all about it. If the police lose, you generally hear nothing. And on this tottering foundation you build up your comfortable moral maxim that Crime causes its own detection ! Yes—all the crime you know of. And what of the rest
Página 176 - I have asked whether Henry the Eighth was an amiable character ? whether Pope Alexander the Sixth was a good man ? Whether Mr. Murderer and Mrs. Murderess Manning were not both unusually stout people ? Whether hired nurses, proverbially as cruel a set of women as are to be found in all England, were not,
Página 275 - grand creature, who stands, in the strength of her love and her courage, firm as a rock between us two and that poor flimsy, pretty blonde wife of yours—this magnificent woman, whom I admire with all my soul, though I oppose her in your interests and in mine, you drive to extremities, as
Página 20 - few steps—and I said to myself. The lady is young. She approached nearer—and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words fail me to express), The lady is ugly! Never was the old conventional maxim, that Nature