A Modern Instance: A NovelJ. R. Osgood, 1881 - 514 sayfa |
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Sayfa 303 - Some newspapers used to stand out against publishing murders, and personal gossip, and divorce trials. There ain'ta newspaper that pretends to keep anyways up with the times, now, that don't do it! The public want spice, and they will have it!" " Well, sir," said the manager, " that's my way of looking at it.
Sayfa 88 - He felt the pang that thrilled through the girl at his words, and her hand trembled on his shoulder ; but she did not take it away. The old man came forward from the pile of books which he and Marcia had been dusting, and sat down in a chair on the other side of the stove. He pushed back his hat from his forehead, and asked drily, "What commenced it ?
Sayfa 42 - She spoke with that awe of her daughter and her judgments which is one of the pathetic idiosyncrasies of a certain class of American mothers. They feel themselves to be not so well educated as their daughters, whose fancied knowledge of the world they let outweigh their own experience of life; they are used to deferring to them, and they shrink willingly into household drudges before them, and leave them to order the social affairs of the family.
Sayfa 450 - I will take my chance with the men and women who have been honest enough to own their mistake, and to try to repair it, and I will preach by my life that marriage has no sanctity but what love gives it, and that when love ceases marriage ceases, before Heaven. If the laws have come to recognise that, by whatever fiction, so much the better for the laws!
Sayfa 162 - ll tell you what I 'm going to do : I 'm going to take you to the Museum after dinner, and let you see Boucicault in the ' Colleen Bawn.' " He swept his -paper off the table and unfolded his napkin in his lap, and, leaning back in his chair, began to tell her about the play. " We can walk : it 's only just round the corner,
Sayfa 3 - The village stood on a wide plain, and around it rose the mountains. They were green to their tops in summer, and in the winter white through their serried pines and drifting mists, but at every season serious and beautiful, furrowed with hollow shadows, and taking the light on masses and stretches of iron-grey crag.