Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?Won?t you stay a little longer?? the hostess asked while she held the girl?s hand and smiled. ?It?s too early for every one to go--it?s too absurd.? Mrs. Churchley inclined her head to one side and looked gracious; she flourished about her face, in a vaguely pro...

Full Text Search Details
...e Marriages by Henry James CHAPTER I “Won’t you stay a little longer?” the hostess asked while she held the girl’s hand and smiled. “It’s too early fo... ... Churchley went on. The Colonel laughed; he said it wasn’t fair. But their hostess pressed his daughter. “Do sit down; it’s the only time to have any ... ... the general sauve qui peut and panic fear of being left with the host and hostess. But personally she always felt the contagion, always conformed to ... ...nse responsibility of her step and wonder- fully older than her years. Her hostess sounded her at first with suspicious eyes, but eventually, to Adela...

Full Text Search Details
...ures, 4 The Bostonians in spite of the friendly face which he bent upon his hostess’s deputy, and which, in its thinness, had a deep dry line, a sort... ... tendency, and presently found him self talking comfortably enough with his hostess. Though he had said to himself that no one could help her, the ef... ... deep aversion to the ineffectual. It came over him, while he waited for his hostess to reappear, that she was unmarried as well as rich, that she was... ...ascetic.’ ‘Oh, well, we have had our dinner,’ Ransom rejoined, laughing. His hostess sat silent a moment, with her eyes on the ground; she looked at s... ...de Mrs. Farrinder’s manner seem large and free. In her transit, however, the hostess was checked by the arrival of fresh pilgrims; she had no idea she... ...ugh for Miss Birdseye that she should have said, when pressed (so far as her hostess, muffled in laxity, could press) on the subject of the general exp... ...ons—appeared now to have decided to utter a few of her thoughts, so that her hostess could elicit a general response to the remark that it would be de... ...m her chair and laid her hand, with an arresting movement, on the arm of her hostess. She explained to her that she must go, that she was not very wel... ...I will give up everything!’ Chapter 11 65 Filled with the impression of her hostess’s agreeable interior, and of what her mother had told her about M...

Full Text Search Details
...uld sit and eat. For the rest–Kim giggled here as he cleaned his teeth–his hostess would rather heighten the enjoyment of the road. He inspected her b...

Full Text Search Details
...ind, and comming alone into a house where he was expresly looked for, his hostess, who knew him not, and saw him to be so il-favored a fellow, emplo... ...g come and finding him so busily at work (for he failed not to fulfil his hostesses commandement, enquired of him what he did, who answered,' I pay ...

Full Text Search Details
...ram, in half an hour, to the Occidental, and some- times he forgot it. His hostess asked him a great many questions about himself, but on this subject... ...it perhaps once in five years.” “The time is coming round, then,” said his hostess. “Before I have known you six months I shall see you in a fine fury... ... exclaimed Tristram. “You say all this to the right person,” said Newman’s hostess. “I happen to number among my friends the love- liest woman in the ... ...stram kissed her. Newman expressed his thanks, and she took her leave. Her hostess went with her to the door, and left Newman alone a moment. Presentl... ...ors were numerous and extremely loquacious, and they exacted much of their hostess’s attention. She found time, however, to bestow a little of it on N... ...ined at Mrs. Tristram’s; and it was only a tenderly perverse theory of his hostess of the Avenue d’Iena that he was faithless to his early friend- shi... ... them. He ought, obviously, to have answered that the content- ment of his hostess was quite natural—she had a great deal; but the idea did not occur ... ...ame de Bellegarde had received him before, and here he found his venerable hostess, surrounded by her entire family. The room was lighted only by the ... ...intre, Newman was requested by the servant to wait a few mo- ments, as his hostess was not at liberty. He walked about the room a while, taking up her...

Full Text Search Details
...asily guessed. Mr. Mangler did nothing but say how charming he thought his hostess of the Sunday, and what a tremendously jolly visit he had had. He d...

Full Text Search Details
...he stopped to drink a glass of syrup in a very poor, bare drinking shop. The hostess, a comely woman, suckling a child, examined the traveller with ki...

Full Text Search Details
...ve believed but that all was adage and apothegm he spoke to his man or his hostess. We much more aptly imag- ine an artisan upon his close-stool, or u...

Full Text Search Details
...magazine rickshAws 278 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine rickshAws And A hostess from venetiAn 279 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine sAn lAzAro - A...

Full Text Search Details
...-bye, being ready to go off to sea that very night with the Tremolino. Our hostess, slightly pant- ing yet, and just a shade dishevelled, turned tartl...

Full Text Search Details
...was taken ill next morning, and lay for six weeks, attended by the amiable hostess (the same benevolent old lady who had wept over night) and her char...

Full Text Search Details
... it seemed little more than aimless chatter. She was in- terested when her hostess explained that Howards End was her own property. She was bored when... ... rushed on, and when she inquired whether there was any news of Helen, her hostess was toomuch occupied in placing Rothenstein to answer. The question... ...s had been assigned beforehand, and some of the speeches were amusing. The hostess assumed the ungrateful role of “the millionaire’s eldest son,” and ... ...oor people until they became exactly like people who were not so poor. The hostess pertinently remarked that she, as eldest son, might surely rank amo... ...burr of conversation her fears vanished. “You needn’t go though—”began her hostess. “I needn’t, but hadn’t I better? It’s really getting rather seriou... ..., epitome of what will follow. And behind the frag- ment lies Southampton, hostess to the nations, and Portsmouth, a latent fire, and all around it, w... ...her in- ternational incident was closed. “‘Bournemouth is,’” resumed their hostess, quoting a local rhyme to which she was much attached— ”’Bournemout... ...exclaimed, dropping his hand. “Surely, on Chelsea Embankment—” “Here’s our hostess. Good-morning, Mrs. Munt. Fine rhododendrons. Good-morning, Frau Li... ...one, Henry tired, and the others in their rooms. She assumed the airs of a hostess; not for long. For one of the group was Helen—Helen in her oldest c...

Full Text Search Details
...contemplation of the unfinished dish. Sub- sequently, he told his host and hostess that he had two sisters above his own age, and three brothers and t... ...h so, moved by chivalry to- ward a lady, courtesy to the recollection of a hostess, and particularly by the knowledge that his hearer would expect wit... ...ine as anti-Bacchic and a counterfeit presentment. Do not misjudge me. Our hostess is not responsible. But widows should marry.” “You must contrive to... ...y.” “You must contrive to stop the Professor, sir, if he should attack his hostess in that manner,” said Vernon. “Widows should marry!” Dr. Middleton ... ... considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess. He frowned terribly. In the interval Laetitia told Vernon of Cross... ...n should be mis- led to suppose that they were not valuable to a governing hostess: “their shadow-fights are ridiculous, but they have their flavour a... ...llently. I see her like a flower in sunshine. She will expand to a perfect hostess. Patterne will shine under her reign; you have my warrant for that....

Excerpt Details
...anything except relief. He rolled the condom off and held it up. The bulb was filled and no leaks visible. ‘What’ll I do with this?’ ‘Flush it!’ his hostess growled irritably; orgasm had clearly failed to improve her mood. Desires satiated, Ms Nimffo dressed while Zeno ate his sandwich alone in the kitchen. Unsure whether to simply leave or wish the unpleasant woman good...

Full Text Search Details
...ot see it is my great satisfaction to be able to do something for our good hostess, so that my daughter and I be not a burden to her?’ ‘Well spoken, m... ...the only languages of all but the highest and most cultivated classes, the hostess had very little langue d’oui, and never ventured on any compli- cat... ...tacie’s excuse for usu- ally offering to attend to the menage, and set her hostess free to be present at the preachings. However, Rayonette was consid... ... gal- lant compliments, and of performing all the courtesies suited to the hostess and queen of the place: it was the air that would have befitted the...

Full Text Search Details
...very happy, smiling, and active all that evening, performing her duties as hostess of the little entertainment with the utmost grace and propriety, as...

Full Text Search Details
...ain of dra- goons, the guests for the most part of the same class, and the hostess a young woman originally from a country alehouse, *Anglicised versi... ...anxious to leave the place; and putting down a crown- piece, requested the hostess to treat the gentlemen in her ab- sence. “Good-bye, Captain,” said ... ...g day. “Faith, then, needs must,” said the Ensign, and made a lunge at the hostess, which passed so near the wretch’s throat, that she screamed, sank ... ...cester, they were not a little frightened to hear of the cruel fate of the hostess and many of the amiable frequent- ers of the “Three Rooks.” All the...

Full Text Search Details
...v’s.” “Oh, don’t talk to me of my regiment,” replied Pierre, kiss- ing his hostess’ hand and taking a seat beside her. “I am so sick of it.” “Y ou wil...

Full Text Search Details
...n of that day was, he presented it to the King on his knee. “I drink to my hostess and her family,” says the Prince, with no very well-pleased air; bu...