Mrs Peacock, though incapable of doubting her own judgment, was not uncompassionate. Secure of having her own way, which was all she ever demanded of life, she was quite ready to forgive and forget. Forgetting, however, was not so easy. Catherine’s dutiful surrender had taken her by surprise: she...
Stanton, a Georgian house standing amid terraced lawns and tree-shaded walks, with a high-walled orchard at one extremity and a paddock for pony-riding at the other, combined comeliness and good sense in equal proportions. In the shelter of its urbane dignity dwelt Daniel Williams, his son Tom, h...
As to the nature of her malady, that was precisely what we all—except herself—wanted to know. The problem baffled us, and baffled—though he did not confess as much—the expensive Mercester physician to whom my Uncle Claybrook insisted on taking her. ‘Nothing really the matter. A bit run down, that...
asked Eve. The question was an idle one and Adam did not trouble to answer it. Nor did Eve look for an answer. She now had other babes to cherish, and though she took pleasure in her sons when they chanced to visit her she did not yearn for them during their long absences. The idea that any harm ...
She was not yet unduly late, and Mark Perryman was not impatient. He was a man approaching thirty-five who picked up a precarious living in Fleet Street. He had lived through many excitements, and at his present advanced age he liked to think of himself as imperturbable, but he would not have den...
Dr. Hinksey’s answer did not arrive till twelve days after the posting of Adam’s letter, and when it did arrive it was found to contain no invitation. Adam was obliged, therefore, to continue the correspondence to the point at which an invitation became unavoidable on Hinksey’s part. He liked old...
Egg Pandervil found the place by the more direct method of buying a ticket and travelling on the newly constructed railway to the terminal station of a little branch line from King’s Cross. The urbanization of Farringay was only just beginning. Its shops were but five in number and insignificant ...
It measured eighteen feet long (but they were Guy’s feet, you must remember) by ten feet wide, at its longest and widest; but it was not quite rectangular because the builder, whoever he was, had been anxious to take advantage of four stout trees that happened to be growing at a convenient distan...