The law and the lady, Volum 3Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The Law and the Lady, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint) Wilkie Collins Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2018 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
answered Ariel asked Beauly Beauly's Benjamin Burgundy chair corridor creature cried Cunegonda Damoride dear Diary discovered discovery doctor door doubt dreadful dust-heap Edinburgh England enquiry Eustace Macallan's Eustace's eyes face feel felt gardener give Gleninch hand happened happy hear heard heart hope husband idea innocent jamin keep kiss knew Lady Clarinda laugh lawyer leave letter live locked London looked Macallan Madam maid Master mind Miser Miserrimus Dexter Mistress morning morsels mother-in-law never night noble lady nurse October 20 old friend once opened paper passed person Phoebe Playmore Playmore's poison poor question quiet remember Retributive Justice rience rinda round secret silence Spain speak spoke stopped story strange sure surprise suspect tace tell thing thought tion told took Trial turned Valeria wait wife woman Woodville words write
Populære avsnitt
Side 20 - The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness! The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vaporous exultation not to be confined ! Ha! ha! the animation of delight Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of light, And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind.
Side 148 - Solomon who has left his proverbs behind him — the bran-new philosopher who considers the consolations of religion in the light of harmless playthings, and who is kind enough to say that he might have been all the happier if he could only have been childish enough to play with them himself. Oh, the new ideas, the new ideas, what consoling, elevating, beautiful discoveries have been made by the new ideas ! We were all monkeys before we were men, and molecules before we were monkeys ! And what does...
Side 333 - I have learned enough of my musicmaster, to know what it takes to make a fine singer. I haven't the patience to work at it as those foreign women do : a parcel of brazenfaced Jezebels — I hate them ! No ! no ! between you and me, it was a great deal easier to get the money by marrying the old gentleman. Here I am, provided for — and there's all my family provided for, too — and nothing to do but to spend the money. I am fond of my family; I'ma good daughter and sister — /am! See how I'm dressed...
Side 148 - Collins glances off from his main theme to express a gratuitous denunciation of those scientists who "consider the consolations of religion in the light of harmless playthings." Invited to march with the age, old Benjamin in The Law and the Lady (1875)14 flays his generation with bitter sarcasm. Don't let's do things by halves. Let's go and get crammed with ready-made science at a lecture — let's hear the last new professor, the man who has been behind the scenes at Creation, and knows to a T how...
Side 305 - And, again, if I had only remembered to 'move my chair, and so to give Benjamin the signal to leave off, he would never have written down the apparently senseless words which have led us to the discovery of the truth. Looking back at events in this frame of mind, the very sight of the letter sickened and horrified me. I cursed the day which had disinterred the fragments of it from their foul tomb. Just at the time when Eustace had found his weary way back to...
Side 149 - I am going to clear my mind of cant," said Benjamin, sternly. "I am going into the library." "What are you going to read?" "I am going to read— Puss in Boots, and Jack and the Bean-stalk, and anything else I can find that doesn't march with the age we live in.
Side 147 - Oh, the new ideas ! the new ideas ! By all manner of means, Valeria, let us have the new ideas ! The old morality's all wrong, the old ways are all worn out. Let's march with the age we live in. Nothing comes amiss to the age we live in.
Side 122 - ... Trial, it was impossible even for his wife to be really and truly persuaded that he was an innocent man. All the wild pictures which his distempered imagination drew, were equally inspired by that one obstinate conviction. He fancied himself to be still living with me, under those dreaded conditions. Do what he might, I was always recalling to him the terrible ordeal through which he had passed. He acted his part, and he acted mine. He gave me a cup of tea ; and I said to him, ' We quarrelled...
Side 171 - I saw it in her frowning brows, in her colourless eyes looking at me vacantly. On a sudden, she joyfully struck the open palm of one of her hands with the fist of the other. She had triumphed. She had got an idea. ' Master ! ' she cried. ' Master ! You haven't told me a story for ever so long. Puzzle my thick head. Make my flesh creep. Come on. A good long story. All blood and crimes.
Side 102 - ... tell you ! All through that horrible night, I was awake ; watching my opportunity until I found my way to her ! I got into the room, and took my last leave of the cold remains of the angel whom I loved. I cried over her. I kissed her, for the first and last time. I stole one little lock of her hair. I have worn it ever since ; I have kissed it night and day. Oh, God ! the room comes back to me ! the dead face comes back to me ! Look ! look...