The Inner Shrine: A Novel of Today, 第 909 卷Harper & Brothers, 1909 - 355 頁 "A melodramatic tale of a woman's life blighted by slander." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation |
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第 272 頁 - It's as broad as it's long, and, as my husband says, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb; and it saves bother.
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第 157 頁 - From where she stood, just within the door, Diane knew that he had flung the word over his shoulder, as he went up the hall towards the stairway. He was going to his room without speaking to her. For an instant she stood still from consternation, but it was in emergencies like this that her spirit rose. Without further hesitation she passed out into the hall, just as Derek Pruyn turned at the bend in the staircase, on his way upwards. For a brief second, as, standing below, she lifted her eyes to...
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第 332 頁 - ... under circumstances which do not exist. You are forced to wonder what would have happened if everything had been different from what it was. It is not easy to guess what will take place in Wonderland, as other people than Lewis Carroll's heroine have found out.
第 3 頁 - George grew up she had been glad to resign them to his keeping, taking what he told her was her income. As for Diane, her fortune was so small as to be a negligible quantity in such housekeeping as they maintained — a poverty of dot which had been the chief reason why her noble kinsfolk had consented to her marriage with an American.
第 259 頁 - ... her pain, she fell asleep. When she awoke it was already growing dark, and the...
第 342 頁 - It's a game that requires the combination of many kinds of skill, and, if it doesn't call for a conspicuous display of virtues, it lays all the greater emphasis on its own few, stringent rules.