A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
Stella GibbonsWell,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.
Stella GibbonsHere was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...
Stella GibbonsHe was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.
Stella GibbonsWomen are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride....
Stella GibbonsDaisies opened in sly lust to the sun-rays and rain-spears, and eft-flies, locked in a blind embrace, spun radiantly through the glutinous light to their ordained death.
Stella GibbonsNo one had seen anything of Urk since he had gone galloping out into the night carrying Meriam, the hired girl. It was generally assumed that he had drowned her and then himself. Who cared, anyway?
Stella GibbonsShe glanced upwards for a second at the soft blue vault of the midsummer night sky. Not a cloud misted its solemn depths. Tomorrow would be a beautiful day.
Stella GibbonsThe flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life-- and as meaningless.
Stella GibbonsBut Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.
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