Darby Chapter XVIIThe Launching Of Sarah(A Retrospect) Though it had been of her own free will that she returned home, Sarah had travelled north with a heavy heart. It was a far from happy life that she was returning to, and it was only because she was flying from a still less bearable one that s...
What can have happened? It is now nine o’clock and after waiting and waiting I have come home. What can have prevented her from turning up? We were to dine at seven o’clock at Martini’s and go on to the Philharmonic concert at the Queen’s Hall. I waited till a quarter to eight and then rang up he...
The secret voice of which formerly she had been aware in her moments of solitude was now heard no more. The sorrowful ghost had been laid. It seemed to her, as she lay contemplating the window and the ceiling of the long, low bedroom during the peaceful half-hour between waking and rising, that s...
The claws of the frost are sharp upon my hands. On the harsh lawn each blade of grass Is tempered to a brittle spear of glass. The fountain is crystal-hung; its waters fail. Wilted to colourless, frail Paper the tender flesh of the flowers. The Dryads are gone from the tree, For...
“Me?” he asked, wondering uneasily what he was wanted for. “Yes, you!” said the boy who had delivered the message. “You’re Glynde, aren’t you?” Adrian with beating heart approached the sacred door, opened it, and went nervously in. For the first time he beheld that sanctuary, with its battered ar...
“I will tell you when we can talk about it,” was all he said; and John, full of sympathy, at once set off for London and telegraphed to Eric to dine with him at his club. Eric’s appearance, when he arrived, shocked John, but he said nothing. “How glad I am to see you, John,” he said, and it seeme...
Mrs. Dryden rose as he entered. “Come along,” she said; “we’ll begin. In the matter of breakfast, three is a quorum.” She took her place at the head of the table and began to pour out coffee. Joan sat on her left and Eric went to the side-table to get her some scrambled eggs. As he bent over her ...