Dangerous DaysGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 400 pages |
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... probably . " " You are all wrong , " said Audrey , and lighted a fresh cigaret . " They want different things at different ages . That's why marriage is such a rotten failure . First they want women ; any woman will do , really . So ...
... probably . " " You are all wrong , " said Audrey , and lighted a fresh cigaret . " They want different things at different ages . That's why marriage is such a rotten failure . First they want women ; any woman will do , really . So ...
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... Probably , " Clay retorted . " If it had anything to fight ! But with the German fleet bottled up , and the inadvisability of attempting to bombard Berlin from the sea ! " The rector made no immediate reply , and Clayton seemed to ...
... Probably , " Clay retorted . " If it had anything to fight ! But with the German fleet bottled up , and the inadvisability of attempting to bombard Berlin from the sea ! " The rector made no immediate reply , and Clayton seemed to ...
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... probably want to 80 , " " He'll do nothing of the sort , " she said sharply . " He's all I have . All . Do you think I'm going to send him over there to be cannon - fodder ? I won't let him go . " She was trembling violently . " I won't ...
... probably want to 80 , " " He'll do nothing of the sort , " she said sharply . " He's all I have . All . Do you think I'm going to send him over there to be cannon - fodder ? I won't let him go . " She was trembling violently . " I won't ...
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... probably , but at least you'd be out of it . " She ignored his protest , as she always ignored protests against her own methods of handling matters . " I'm accustomed to it , " was her sole reply . But her re- signed voice brought her ...
... probably , but at least you'd be out of it . " She ignored his protest , as she always ignored protests against her own methods of handling matters . " I'm accustomed to it , " was her sole reply . But her re- signed voice brought her ...
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... ve bored everybody to death with it . " " Sorry , " he said , rather stiftly . " I'll be careful . " He had a wretched feeling that she was probably right . He had come back so full of new impressions that he 51 CHAPTER VI ...
... ve bored everybody to death with it . " " Sorry , " he said , rather stiftly . " I'll be careful . " He had a wretched feeling that she was probably right . He had come back so full of new impressions that he 51 CHAPTER VI ...
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Page 190 - Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices ; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory ; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 29 - WHEN first I loved, I gave my very soul Utterly unreserved to Love's control, But Love deceived me, wrenched my youth away And made the gold of life for ever grey. Long I lived lonely, yet I tried in vain With any other Joy to stifle pain ; There is no other joy, I learned to know, And so returned to Love, as long ago. Yet I, this little while ere I go hence, Love very lightly now, in self-defence. Lines by Taj...
Page 190 - ... save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 345 - Where do we go from here boys, Where do we go from here?
Page 376 - The motive for a conception according to nature is the love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man. And therefore since a singular love of the Holy Spirit burned in the Virgin's heart, the love of the Holy Spirit wrought great things in her flesh.
Page 296 - You are all that is lovely to me, All that is light, One white rose in a Desert of weariness. I only live in the night, The night, with its fair false dreams of you, You and your loveliness. Give me your love for a day, A night, an hour : If the wages of sin are Death I am willing to pay. What is my life but a breath Of passion burning away ? Away for an unplucked flower. O Aziza whom I adore, Aziza my one delight, Only one night, I will die before day, And trouble your life no more.
Page 394 - What she wanted. quite simply, was the service of love. To have her own and to care for them. She hoped, very earnestly, that she would be able to look beyond her own four walls, to see distress and to help it, but she knew, as she knew herself, that the real call to her would always be love.
Page 86 - It's the IWW, for one thing. We've got a list through the British post-office censor, of a lot of those fellows who are taking German money to-day. They're against everything. Not only work. They're against law and order. And they're likely to raise hell.
Page 345 - I want to talk to you, and I can't talk to you while you're knocked half-silly.
Page 44 - It furnished unlimited conversation at dinner parties, led to endless wrangles, gave zest and point to the peace that made those dinner parties possible, furnished an excuse for retrenchment here and there, and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities.