Dangerous DaysGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 400 pages |
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... sort of thing . " Clayton's eyes roamed about the room , where portly Mrs. Haverford was still knitting placidly , where the Chris Valen- tines were quarreling under pretense of raillery , where Toots Hayden was smoking a cigaret in a ...
... sort of thing . " Clayton's eyes roamed about the room , where portly Mrs. Haverford was still knitting placidly , where the Chris Valen- tines were quarreling under pretense of raillery , where Toots Hayden was smoking a cigaret in a ...
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... sort of man one trusted with everything but one's wife ; Chris , too - only he let married women alone , and forgot to pay back the money he borrowed . There was only one man in the room about whom he was beginning to mistrust his ...
... sort of man one trusted with everything but one's wife ; Chris , too - only he let married women alone , and forgot to pay back the money he borrowed . There was only one man in the room about whom he was beginning to mistrust his ...
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... sort of clerk down at the mill , you know . " Natalie overheard , and her eyes met Clayton's , with a glance of malicious triumph . She had been deeply resentful that he had not made Graham a partner at once . He remembered a ...
... sort of clerk down at the mill , you know . " Natalie overheard , and her eyes met Clayton's , with a glance of malicious triumph . She had been deeply resentful that he had not made Graham a partner at once . He remembered a ...
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... sort of thing ? A dull party , driven to cards and drink to get through the evening . And what sort of home life were he and Natalie giving the boy ? Either this , or the dreary evenings when they were alone , with Natalie sitting with ...
... sort of thing ? A dull party , driven to cards and drink to get through the evening . And what sort of home life were he and Natalie giving the boy ? Either this , or the dreary evenings when they were alone , with Natalie sitting with ...
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... sort . The dinner was all right . The guests were- all right . I may have unconsciously resented your attitude about Doctor Haverford . Certainly he didn't angle for it , and I had no idea of throwing a sop to Providence . " " That isn ...
... sort . The dinner was all right . The guests were- all right . I may have unconsciously resented your attitude about Doctor Haverford . Certainly he didn't angle for it , and I had no idea of throwing a sop to Providence . " " That isn ...
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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.