Excerpts from the Book 'The Line Of Least Resistance':

... perquisites, and of the other luxuries of his complicated establishment he enjoyed considerably less than this fraction. Of course, it was nobody's ...
... sense of her importance to the people she kept waiting she had nervous attacks - but they served to excuse her from dull dinners and family visits ...
... in the room! He looked round furiously at the butler, who gazed impartially over his head. Mr. Mindon knew that it was proper for him to ...
... would telegraph to New York on the instant. I don't want a pwize dog I want Fwank's puppy! Mr. Mindon laid down his fork and walked ...
... brought to see it! One of Millicent's chief sources of strength lay in her magnificent obtuseness: there were certain obligations that simply didn't ...
... yielded at best an indirect satisfaction. At length he decided to go and play with the little girls but on entering the nursery he found them dressing ...
... he would talk to them if he could help it. The sight of the dining-room door increased his depression by recalling the long dinners where, with ...
... All about him were the evidences of her toil: her writing-table disappeared under an avalanche of notes and cards the waste-paper basket ...
... shell, naked as the day you were built - no better than a garret or a coal-hole. Why, you wouldn't be at all if I chose to tear you ...
... central pain, - Any orders for the stable, sir? And Mr. Mindon found himself the mere mouth-piece of a roving impulse that replied, ...
... yet reached the point of detachment at which offending Mrs. Targe might become immaterial, and again he felt himself jerked out of his grooves. ...
... and hot noises came up irritatingly from the street. He looked at his watch: it was just four o'clock. He wondered if Millicent had ...
... and the Fall River boat would at least be cool. Then he remembered the playful throngs that held the deck, the midnight hilarity of the waltz-tunes, ...
... inflexible unless someone asked him to relent. The Line of Least Resistance IV. AT the sound of a knock he clutched ...
... scene suggested something between a vestry-meeting and a conference of railway-directors and the knowledge that he himself was its central figure, ...
... Mindon - the poor woman's crushed - crushed. Your uncle here has seen her. Mr. Brownrigg glanced suspiciously at Meysy, as though not ...
... Mr. Mindon faltered another assent. Then, annoyed at the uncertain sound of his voice, he repeated loudly, I mean to divorce her. ...
... grievances. He had the excited sense that at last Millicent would know what he had always thought of her. Mr. Brownrigg looked at ...
... would be gone, and with them Mr. Mindon's audience, his support, his confidence in the immutability of his resolve. He felt himself no more than ...
... : A GraveJemima Shore at the Sunny Grave And Other Stories is a book by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1991, it a collection of nine short stories, ...