ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryStephen retraced his steps towards the cottage he had visited only two or three hours previously. He drew near and under the rich foliage growing about the outskirts of Endelstow Park, the spotty lights and shades from the shining moon maintaining a race over his head and down his back in an endless gambol. When […]
‘Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn’t sense enough to know whom to despise.’ ‘It shows that he acts by faith and not by sight, as those you claim succession from directed.’ ‘That’s some more of what he’s been telling you, I suppose! Yes, I was inclined […]
‘That may or may not be true, Elfride,’ returned her father, again uncomfortably agitated in spite of himself ‘You confuse future probabilities with present facts,–what the young man may be with what he is. We must look at what he is, not what an improbable degree of success in his profession may make him. The […]
‘But he was afraid to tell you, and so should I have been. He loved me too well to like to run the risk. And as to speaking of his friends on his first visit, I don’t see why he should have done so at all. He came here on business: it was no affair […]
‘My fault, of course; my fault. What the deuce could I be thinking of! He, a villager’s son; and we, Swancourts, connections of the Luxellians. We have been coming to nothing for centuries, and now I believe we have got there. What shall I next invite here, I wonder!’ Elfride began to cry at this […]
