ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article Directory`Pray excuse me. But could you contrive to speak in a lower key? In the wretched state of my nerves, loud sound of any kind is indescribable torture to me. You will pardon an invalid? I only say to you what the lamentable state of my health obliges me to say to everybody. Yes. And […]
If a man’s personal appearance, when he is out of his dressing-room, and when he has passed forty, can be accepted as a safe guide to his time of life — which is more than doubtful — Mr Fairlie’s age, when I saw him, might have been reasonably computed at over fifty and under sixty […]
`I have my master’s orders to show you your own sitting-room, sir,’ said the man, `and to inquire if you approve of the situation and the light.’ I must have been hard to please, indeed, if I had not approved of the room, and of everything about it. The bow-window looked out on the same […]
`Very strange. I think you were quite justified, Mr Hartright, in giving the poor creature her liberty, for she seems to have done nothing in your presence to show herself unfit to enjoy it. But I wish you had been a little more resolute about finding out her name. We must really clear up this […]
She had run on thus far, in her gracefully bantering way, with no other interruptions on my part than the unimportant replies which politeness required of me. The turn of the expression, however, in her last question, or rather the one chance word, `adventure,’ lightly as it fell from her lips, recalled my thoughts to […]
