Excerpts from the Book 'The Perversity Of Human Nature':

... him heavily. She therefore resolved to do it first and tell him afterwards. It was extremely difficult to find an excuse for presenting herself ...
... her in. Almost before the door was closed behind her, and before Lexie could collect her wits to speak, Mabel burst forth with her denunciations. ...
... that she supposed he cast upon her. It was balm to her stricken heart to hear Robert call her a noble woman, for she had been fearing the most ...
... done, though I wish to God we had her mother with her, poor girl. It's too dreadful- I won't have you near. You stay where you are, and I'll ...
... her, and made love to her with real (though decorously subdued) enjoyment to them both and she talked with animation of the superior education ...
... a state of wild alarm lest the baby should catch bronchitis, and declared that the idea of exposing those infant lungs to the rigors of an English ...
... It isn't every man that would make the sacrifices I have done to give his wife pleasure. What sacrifices? Coming to town, ...
... to tear each other's hair off in a week. Bless her! ejaculated Lexie fervently, with tears in her eyes. So she gave up slumming ...
... be ready in half an hour but she would not stay another minute. So he escorted her down the gang way, and they said good-bye, and she hastened ...
... cheered up and looking across the sea to the lights of Williamstown, braced herself to carry out her purpose to the bitter end. She had ...
... an additional pang in consequence. She turned round and sat down on the end of the pier by the Customs stairway, and looked at the great ...
... be wholly responsible for the catastrophe. He felt as if he had murdered her, and was almost inclined to go and cut his own throat in his remorse ...
... in Lexie's bedroom, surveyed himself at full length in her cheval glass, and hoped rather anxiously that he was not going to grow stout. Did he ...
... sadly evident that her beloved one had changed. In fact they were not on speaking terms after the first month. Perhaps it was not altogether Emily's ...
... surroundings of her Australian home. In short there was no sacrifice that she was not ready to make to prove herself the superior woman ...
... him now, cried Lexie, taking a step forward. Be good enough to show me into a room. I will send him a message. She could not bring herself ...
... had sprung to his feet like a surprised conspirator. Truth compels me to state that he looked terribly frightened. Then he seemed to remember ...
... hope and confidence, and of that usurping cuckoo whose hateful presence profaned it (thus she regarded her rival in the silence of her own thoughts), ...
... himself with the m'enu of the breakfast, standing on the rug with his back to the fire, until she made her appearance. When she came ...
... it yesterday. Lexie's errand to Gaunt's was to buy a pair of smoked glasses- those large grey spectacles with wire sides to them that are ...