Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel, Volume 1Dodd, Mead, 1920 |
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Page 139 - Beasley was regarded by all who knew him as one of the most amiable of men.
Page 1 - I WOULD that it were possible so to tell a story that a reader should beforehand know every detail of it up to a certain point, or be so circumstanced that he might be supposed to know.
Page 127 - George's brow): It might still be that she would be able to galvanise him into that lover's vitality of which she had dreamed. He never rebuffed her; he did not scorn her kisses, or fail to smile when his hair was moved; he answered every word she spoke to him carefully and courteously; he admired her pretty things when called upon to admire them. But through it all she was aware that she had not galvanised him.
Page 373 - I do not know whether a husband's comfort is ever perfect till some family peccadilloes have been conclusively proved against him. I am sure that a wife's temper to him is sweetened by such evidence of human imperfection.
Page 2 - But the story must be made intelligible from the beginning, or the real novel readers will not like it.
Page 16 - With great care and cunning workmanship one may almost make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but not quite. The care which Dean Lovelace had bestowed upon the operation in regard to himself had been very great, and the cunning workmanship was to be seen in every plait and every stitch. But still there was something left of the coarseness of the original material.
Page 374 - ... pardon. Then, and not till then, he is her equal; and equality is necessary for comfortable love. But the man, till he be well used to it, does not like to be pardoned. He has assumed divine superiority, and is bound to maintain it. Then, at last, he comes home some night with a little too much wine, or he cannot pay the weekly bills because he has lost too much money at cards, or he has got into trouble at his office and is in doubt for a fortnight about his place, or perhaps a letter from a...
Page 323 - A wife should provide that a man's dinner was such as he liked to eat, his bed such as he liked to lie on, his clothes arranged as he liked to wear them, and the household hours fixed to suit his convenience. She should learn and indulge his habits, should suit herself to him in external things of life, and could thus win from him a liking and a reverence which would wear better than the feeling generally called love, and would at last give the woman her proper influence.
Page 137 - He was about the middle height, light-haired, broad-shouldered, with a pleasant smiling mouth and well-formed nose; but, above all, he had about him that pleasure-loving look, that appearance of taking things jauntily, and of enjoying life, which she in her young girlhood had regarded as being absolutely essential to a pleasant lover.
Page 193 - What would have been a pretty face, had it not been marred by a pinched look of studious severity and a pair of glass spectacles, of which the glasses shone in a disagreeable manner. There are spectacles which are so much more spectacles than other spectacles, that they make the beholder feel that there is before him a pair of spectacles carrying a face, rather than a face carrying a pair of spectacles.