United States or Paraguay ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Harry," said Colonel Musgrave then, "an enormous whale is coming down the river in precisely two minutes. Perhaps if you were to look through the palings of that fence you might see him. I don't suppose you would care to, though?" And Harry strolled resignedly toward the fence. Harry Pendomer did not like this funny lady who had hurt, frightened eyes.
It would have been decidedly difficult to live up to such a contract, and as it were to fulfil every one of the implied specifications!" "And yet" here Charteris flicked his cigarette "Anne ruled in the stead of Aline Van Orden. And Aline, in turn, had followed Clarice Pendomer. And before the coming of Clarice had Pauline Romeyne, whom time has converted into Polly Ashmeade, reigned in the land "
But, allowing ample time for her to dispose of my best lingerie and of her unavoidable lamentations, I ought to make the six-forty-five. I have noticed that one usually does somehow," said Mrs. Pendomer, and seemed to smack of allegories. And yet it may have been because she knew as who knew better? something of that mischief's nature which was now afoot.
He had not seen her for a whole year now, for the Charterises had left Lichfield shortly after the Pendomer divorce case had been settled, and were still in Europe.
Probably, because she always grows fat, from sheer lack of will-power to resist sloth and gluttony the only agreeable vices left her; and by no stretch of the imagination can a fat woman be converted into either a pleasing or heroic figure." Mrs. Pendomer paused for a breathing-space, and smiled, though not very pleasantly.
Some other woman has had what I can never have. And I wanted it so! that first love that means everything the love he gave her when I was only a messy little girl, with pig-tails and too many hands and feet! Oh, that that hell-cat! She's had everything!" There was an interval, during which Mrs. Pendomer smiled crookedly, and Patricia continued to sob, although at lengthening intervals. Then, Mrs.
And in consequence it was considered improbable that at this late day the colonel would do the proper thing by Clarice Pendomer, as, at the first tidings of Patricia's death, had been authentically rumored among the imaginative; and, in fact, Lichfield no longer considered that necessary.
Pendomer, meditatively, "we derive much the same pleasure from them a cripple does from rearranging the athletic medals he once won, or a starving man from thinking of the many excellent dinners he has eaten; but we can't and we wouldn't part with them, nevertheless."
And now I am going to help you too, for you have shown me the way. You don't deserve it in the least, but I'll do it." Thus it shortly came about that Mrs. Pendomer mounted, in meditative mood, to Mrs. Musgrave's rooms; and that Mrs. Pendomer, recovering her breath, entered, without knocking, into a gloom where cologne and menthol and the odor of warm rubber contended for mastery.
Pendomer, reminiscently, "and suchlike tender phrases, scattered in with a pepper-cruet, after the rough copy was made in pencil, and dated just 'Wednesday, or 'Thursday, of course. Ah, you were always very careful, Rudolph," she sighed; "and now that makes it all the worse, because as far as all the evidence goes these letters may have been returned yesterday."
Word Of The Day