"She was by the window, she pushed it open with a jerk, and stepped out into the garden. Her eyes swam with tears of rage. "Damn that man!" she exclaimed, having acquired some of Helen's words."Damn his insolence!" She stood in the middle of the pale square of light which the window she had opened th"
"Uncomfortable as the night, with its rocking movement, and salt smells, may have been, and in one case undoubtedly was, for Mr. Pepper had insufficient clothes upon his bed, the breakfast next morning wore a kind of beauty. The voyage had begun, and had begun happily with a soft blue sky, and a calm"
"She was like her mother, as the image in a pool on a still summer's day is like the vivid flushed face that hangs over it."
""Persuasion," announced Richard, examining the volume. "That's for Miss Vinrace," said Clarissa. "She can't bear our beloved Jane." "That—if I may say so—is because you have not read her," said Richard. "She is incomparably the greatest female writer we possess." "She is the greatest," he continued,"
""Have you done what you said you'd do?" she asked. "A searching question! I answer—Yes and No. If on the one hand I have not accomplished what I set out to accomplish—which of us does!—on the other I can fairly say this: I have not lowered my ideal." He looked resolutely at a sea-gull, as though his"
"Rachel read what she chose, reading with the curious literalness of one to whom written sentences are unfamiliar, and handling words as though they were made of wood, separately of great importance, and possessed of shapes like tables or chairs. In this way she came to conclusions, which had to be r"
"The rush and embrace of the rockets as they soared up into the air seemed like the fiery way in which lovers suddenly rose and united, leaving the crowd gazing up at them with strained white faces."