Excerpts from the Book 'Name And Fame':

... slight fold between his brows betokened irritation and weariness. Cora Walcott seemed to delight in keeping him at her beck and call. She did not let ...
... stay at home with their mothers they don't go to colleges and make themselves peculiar.. I am not going to be peculiar but I don't want to forget ...
... more easily watch for her visitors. Mr. Graham, a tall, thin man, with coal-black beard, deep-set dark eyes, and marked features, had thrown himself ...
... at any moment. Lettice's friends, the Grahams, had naturally left her almost undisturbed during her visit to them, so far as invited guests were ...
... found his old friend, Pynsent, just starting for the House. The time was one of great excitement for those who had not lost their interest in the politics ...
... astonished to find that they knew the story already. I have told the facts to one or two, he said, for the reason that I have just mentioned to ...
... (C.) 4765 Hawkins (L.) 4564 - Majority 201. At the last election Tourmaline had had a majority of six hundred over his Conservative opponent, ...
... thinking of myself. You were not warned.. I beg your pardon, I was.. You knew his wife was alive-and-what she is.. Yes.. I must say ...
... nice-looking, said Alan. And she seems to be getting on in the world. Perhaps she has made a good marriage I should not at all wonder.. Well, ...
... think there is a husband to come, do you. asked Mrs. Bundlecombe, mysteriously. Why not, Bessy. She says she's married, and she wears a ...
... on various recent occasions, and her intrusion upon him in Alfred Place. This article, written with manifest knowledge of the circumstances, yet ...
... within the ropes.. The other side will not have the same motives, said Johnson, who knew all about the scandal which had preceded the assault, ...
... tried to speak lightly, in hopes of recalling her to the festive mood in which they had all begun the day. You remind me of two friends of mine who ...
... the ordinary labors of my profession, are by no means inconsiderable. And I have recently had some worrying cases. In one of these I was called upon ...
... souls distinguished the day from the one which went before and the one which came after it. It was Lettice Campion who thus stirred the languid pulse ...
... seen Cora when she did, she would probably have gone to the prison that evening, to ask whether she could not arrange for Alan's funeral, as she could ...
... painful throbbing of her heart and throat. The sight of his shrunken form and hollow eyes, as he looked at her with pathetic and childlike trust, for ...
... it had never occurred to him to be thus sincere with Nan. He had thought to figure before her as one who was not dependent on her fortune, who could very ...
... Perhaps she had better know everything now.. Then he roused himself a little and looked at her kindly. How are you getting on. he said. Writing ...
... Won't you sit down.. But he preferred to remain standing at an angle where she could not see his face without turning her head. I have ...