A Strange, Sad ComedyCentury Company, 1896 - 281 páginas |
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Página 65 - ... a miracle if any have escaped. But I have remarked that your typical practical man has an unexpected resemblance to one of Milton's angels. His spiritual wounds, such as are inflicted by logical weapons, may be as deep as a well and as wide as a church door, but beyond shedding a few drops of ichor, celestial or otherwise, he is no whit the worse.
Página 79 - Nevertheless, the man was much improved by affluence and a peerage; he would have been more or less than human if he had not been.
Página 156 - You have a right to do as you please with your own, and, of course, what suits you, suit? rue. I only work for my clients' interest, and in that case, felt perfectly independent of Dr.
Página 107 - Letty's discomfort that he fixed his eyes on his program and studied it as if it were the most fascinating composition he had ever read. Not so the Colonel. He kept his attention closely upon the stage, and at one point which brought down the house with roars of laughter and applause, the Colonel rose, with a snort, and with a countenance like a thunder-cloud, offering his arm to Letty, stalked down the main aisle of the theater, with Farebrother, utterly crestfallen, following them.
Página 181 - I felt that it would be flying in the face of Providence to decline such an opportunity.
Página 105 - Arrived in their seats, which were near the other party, Letty settled herself with an ecstatic air of enjoyment to hear the play. The overture was unmixed delight. So was the first quarter of the first act. But in about ten minutes " the fun began," as Farebrother afterward ruefully expressed it.
Página 61 - You've had an easy time behind the bar, and you ought to go down on your knees and thank me for it. Because you're my niece they've let you alone, my dear, but if you hadn't had that honour — by God, there wouldn't be much left of you now!
Página 51 - ... awkward effort to explain I have said that life has never reached me — no woman has ever come to me in trouble. But it is more than that — and it is less. I have often wanted a woman to say to me, " Come and buy me a hat." No woman ever has. I have known women whom I would like to have adorned from the top of their dainty heads to the soles of their elegant feet; but either it is that they have husbands who do it for them or there is some ridiculous etiquette which forbids it. It seems I...