Sir George Tressady, Volumes 1-2Grosset & Dunlap, 1896 |
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Page 81 - He took no notice. He walked up to her and put his hands on her shoulders. " Don't you know what it is " — he spoke with a curious imperiousness — " that protects any woman — or any man either for the matter of that — -from Marcella Maxwell's beauty ? Don't you know that she adores her husband ? " "That's a pose, of course, like everything else," cried Letty, trying to move herself away ;
Page 306 - Dieu ni au diable ; cet état m'ennuie, quoique entre nous je le trouve le plus naturel du monde. On n'est point au diable parce qu'on craint Dieu, et qu'au fond on a un principe de religion ; on n'est point à Dieu aussi, parce que sa loi...
Page 124 - Freedom? — let me quote you Cromwell ! " Every sectary saith, '0 give me liberty!' But give it him, and to the best of his power he will yield it to no one else." So with your careless or brutal employer — give him liberty, and no one else shall get it.
Page 116 - Maxwells' house in St. James's Square. It was a very fine house, and George's eye, as he stood waiting, ran over the facade with an amused, investigating look. He allowed himself the same expression once or twice in the hall, as one mute and splendid person relieved him of his coat, and another, equally mute and equally unsurpassable, waited for him on the stairs, while across a passage beyond the hall he saw two red-liveried footmen carrying tea. " When one is a friend of the people," he pondered...
Page 124 - Thencause was in danger ; nevertheless, the impression on Tressady's mind was of two people consciously in the grip of forces infinitely greater than they — forces that would hold on their path whatever befell their insignificant mortal agents. I steadier step when I recall, Howe'er I slip, thou canst not fall.