Short Story Classics (American) ...William Patten P.F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 1758 oldal |
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Abonus ain't answered asked Barker's Beau began Bertha Blanche Bret Harte Brother Carlsruhe CHIG Colonel Conté Crayon Count Siccatif cried Crombie daughter door dyah Edouard eyes face father fell Fitz Hugh Gahogan gave gazed gentleman George Alfred Townsend GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Gildersleeve girl glance gwine hand HAROLD FREDERIC head heah heart HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN Joyce Basil knew laughed Littimer look Madame Carthame Mademoiselle Olympe Marquis mighty comical Miss Austin Miss Mary Miss Warfield morning mother never night Pinckney Ralph regiment Reybold rose RSITY seemed Siccatif de Courtray Sinclair SITY smile Stilton stood story Stracted strange suddenly talk tell thing THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THOMAS NELSON PAGE thought tion told took train turned Twiller UNIV MIC UNIVE UNIV voice waited Waldron walked Wallis whar whispered wife woman words young
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484. oldal - — an epithet which probably, at that moment, conveniently classified in her mind the entire male population of Red Gulch. For Miss Mary, being possessed of certain rigid notions of her own, had not, perhaps, properly appreciated the demonstrative gallantry for which the Californian has been so justly celebrated by his brother Californians, and had, as a new-comer, perhaps, fairly earned the reputation of being
405. oldal - Avenue (not burned down then), and the Grand Opera House. Even the shabby homes of the drama over in the Bowery, where the Germanic Thespis has not taken out his naturalization papers, underwent rigid exploration. But no clew was found to Van Twiller's mysterious attachment. The opera bouffe, which promised the widest field for investigation, produced absolutely nothing, not even a crop of suspicions.
402. oldal - Twiller is one of the proudest and most sensitive men living. He is a lineal descendant of Wouter Van Twiller, the famous old Dutch governor of New York — Nieuw Amsterdam, as it was then ; his ancestors have always been burgomasters or admirals or generals, and his mother is the Mrs. Vanrensselaer Vanzandt Van Twiller whose magnificent place will be pointed out to you on the right bank of the Hudson as you pass up the historic river toward Idlewild.
404. oldal - ... was carefully examined by experienced hands, and a check placed against a fine old Knickerbocker name here and there, but nothing satisfactory arrived at. Then that same still small voice of rumor, but now with an easily detected staccato sharpness to it, said that Van Twiller was in love — with an actress! Van Twiller, whom it had taken all these years and all this waste of raw material...
416. oldal - ... jewels. I would not like to state the enormous sum Van Twiller paid for this bracelet. It was such a clasp of diamonds as would have hastened the pulsation of a patrician wrist. It was such a bracelet as Prince Camaralzaman might have sent to the Princess Badoura, and the Princess Badoura — might have been very glad to get. In the fragrant Levant morocco case, where these happy jewels lived when they were at home, Van Twiller thoughtfully placed his card, on the back of which he had written...
377. oldal - ... looked it ; if you had shown in your motions the least sign of a fussy or fidgety concern on my account ; if this were not the evening of my birthday, and you the only friend who remembered it ; if confession were not good for the soul, though harder than sin to some people, of whom I am one, — well, if all reasons were not at this instant converged into a focus, and burning me rather violently, in that region where the seat of emotion is supposed to lie, I should keep my trouble to myself....
402. oldal - It was a kindly fairy that stepped in and made him a good fellow also. Fortune, I take it, was in her most jocund mood when she heaped her gifts in this fashion on Van Twiller, who was, and will be again, when this cloud blows over, the flower of Our Club. About a year ago there came a whisper — if the word "whisper...
393. oldal - Other — really I can't explain precisely what it was ! — which I was looking for. In fact, the more I endeavored quietly to study the sex, the more confused I became. At last I was subjected to the usual onslaught from the strong-minded. A small but formidable committee entered my office one morning and demanded a categorical declaration of my principles. What my views on the subject were, I knew very well ; they were clear and decided ; and yet, I hesitated to declare them! It...
409. oldal - And Van Twiller went on making comical domestic tableaux of Mademoiselle Zabriski, like the clever, satirical dog he was, until the curtain rose. This was on a Friday. There was a matine'e the next day, and he attended that, though he had secured a seat for the usual evening entertainment. Then it became a habit of Van Twiller's to drop into the theatre for half an hour or so every night, to assist at the interlude, in which she appeared. He cared only for her part of the programme, and timed his...
382. oldal - You have bestowed without intending it, and I have taken without your knowledge. Do not regret the accident which has enriched another. This concealed idyl of the hills was mine, as I supposed, but I acknowledge your equal right to it. Shall we share the possession, or will you banish me ?" There was a frank advance, tempered by a proper caution, I fancied, in the words I wrote. It was evident that she was unmarried, but outside of that certainty there lay a vast range of possibilities, some of them...