The Yellow Book, Volume 2

Voorkant
E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894
 

Inhoudsopgave

I
11
II
34
III
63
IV
101
V
105
VI
123
VII
144
VIII
146
XII
197
XIII
199
XIV
213
XV
229
XVI
230
XVII
261
XVIII
275
XIX
283

IX
179
XI
181
XX
291
XXI
292

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Pagina 100 - wife and I, to dislocate a sigh, When the noisy little kids are in their bunks. But you'll never hear her do a growl, or whine, For she's made of flint and roses very odd ; And I've got to cut my meaning rather fine Or I'd blubber, for
Pagina 209 - it marched straight and full for the open downs, it seemed to declare its contempt for adventitious trappings to catch the shallow-pated. When the sense of injustice or disappointment was heavy on me, and things were very black within, as on this particular day, the road of character was my choice
Pagina 217 - Road ! How it always brought consolation ! Was he possibly one of those vanished knights I had been looking for so long ? Perhaps he would be in armour next time—why not ? He would look well in armour, I thought. And I would take care to get there first, and see the sunlight
Pagina 101 - did indeed— A million years before the blooming sun. I woke because I thought the time had come ; Beyond my will there was no other cause : And everywhere I found myself at home Because I chose to be the thing I was ; And in whatever shape, of mollusc, or of ape, I always went according to the laws.
Pagina 216 - haven't half exhausted it. We shall meet again, I hope ? " " Of course we shall," I replied, surprised that there should be any doubt about it. " In Rome perhaps ? " said he. "Yes, in Rome," I answered; "or Piccy-the-other-place, or somewhere." "Or else," said he, " in that other city—when we've found the way there. And I'll
Pagina 284 - queer figure, his thick nose and hanging lip were fresh to me : in the light of my old friend's fine cold symmetry they presented mere success in amusing as the refuge of conscious ugliness. Already, at hungry twenty-six, Gravener looked as blank and parliamentary as if he were fifty and popular. In my scrap of a residence
Pagina 209 - solitary ramble when I turned my back for an afternoon on a world that had unaccountably declared itself against me. "The Knight's Road" we children had named it, from a sort of feeling that, if from any quarter at all, it would be down this track
Pagina 214 - She's ever so much nicer than Aunt Eliza. She's my idea of a real lady." "Then I'm sure I should like her," he replied heartily, "and when I come to—what do you call this city of yours? Nephelo —something, did you say ! " «'I—I don't know,
Pagina 328 - appeared before me in the afternoon on the heath was the disposition to haggle over his value. Hang it, one had to choose, one had to put that value somewhere ; so I would put it really high and have done with it. Mrs. Mulville drove in for him at a discreet hour—the earliest she could
Pagina 310 - with us that the biggest splashes took place in the quietest pools. We should have had a merry life indeed if all the splashes had sprinkled us as refreshingly as the waters we were even then to feel about our ears. Kent Mulville had been up to his room, but had come back with a

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