A College Courtship and Other StoriesPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1915 - 222 pàgines |
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A College Courtship: And Other Stories (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Charles Terry Collins Previsualització no disponible - 2017 |
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Pàgina 194 - Let my sins be all forgiven, Bless the friends I love so well ; Take me when I die to heaven, Happy there with Thee to dwell.
Pàgina 97 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Pàgina 215 - ... though all the submissive, unresisting sorrow the world had ever known was pouring itself out through them. Then she would have borne witness that she became conscious of a little white wan face surrounding the eyes, of curling yellow hair, and of a mouth that smiled up sweetly at her as she gazed, and that with the smile the look of wistfulness changed to one of utterly irresistible childish friendliness and trust. Each woman who met this smile and this look went away with the consciousness...
Pàgina 215 - eyes" — great, wistful, pleading blue eyes, looking at her as though all the submissive, unresisting sorrow the world had ever known was pouring itself out through them. Then she would have borne witness that she became conscious of a little white wan face surrounding the eyes, of curling yellow hair, and of a mouth that smiled up sweetly at her as she gazed, and that with the smile the look of wistfulness changed to one of utterly irresistible childish friendliness and trust. Each woman who met...
Pàgina 210 - ... improve; it was only equalled by that of her companions, the other elderly women. Over their coffee-cups of an afternoon, they grew quite red in the face, their heads shook and their hands trembled with nervous, impotent rage. They even spoke of migrating in a body to a pension a little farther back upon the hill, as a covey of partridges rises with a clack and a whir and settles down somewhere else. Each one knew in her heart of hearts that not for worlds would she, to use a homely old proverb,...
Pàgina 218 - ... more of her to trouble. She was of a larger, nobler make. That was what had given her her supremacy over them. From the neighboring room, as she lay waking, she could hear hushed and smothered sounds; some one moving gently about; now and then a tender crooning word. She knew that Monsieur le Bebe was waking also, and that the old nurse, weary as she must be unto death, was watching over him. Madame knew little of the care of babies. She had never had a child of her own. Her most intimate...
Pàgina 211 - Bebe disappointed all expectations concerning him. He never turned night into day for his hostile neighbors. Madame, kept awake as she had been in the matter of the roosters, by her anticipation of what he would do, was forced to admit that he did nothing. If possible, he was quieter even than his predecessor the clergyman. His quiet, in fact, was unnatural, and would have been suggestively pitiful save that every heart was hardened against him. Then one day, in the midst of the boycotting, an idea...
Pàgina 222 - ... with the life of her native land. When the day and the hour came for her to go, Monsieur Planche escorted her and her retinue to the railway station himself, a duty he was generally only too glad to leave to his porters. He was very foggy and misty about his kind old eyes as he bade them good-bye.
Pàgina 218 - WAS SO HAPPY her in the present emergency. They had been horn, poor souls, weighing three pounds each, and had died of measles when they were six weeks old, weighing respectively a pound and a half. A sense of futility in their...