Elaine at the Gates

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Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924 - 397 pages
A marriage of convenience becomes a nightmare for a young bride when the husband decides to pursue his conjugal rights.
 

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Page 179 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 355 - In a burning winding-sheet he lies, And his grave has got no name. And there, till Christ call forth the dead, In silence let him lie: No need to waste the foolish tear, Or heave the windy sigh : The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die. And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Page 384 - ... perhaps may be, because no other Vice implies a Want of Courage so much as the making of a Lie. | 1724 DeFoe, Roxana (Abbey Classics) 271, the chief reason of my having such a notion, was, because I did not perceive the least disorder in her countenaunce. | 1924 WB Maxwell, Elaine at the Gates 420, he was implying that why he knew she had kept the promise was because he had been seeing Arnold (J.). | 1954 The Times, 13 Jan. ; the reason I wanted to do this was because I wanted to go to prison....
Page 25 - Do come — instantly if you can," the note said. " I have so much to tell you, and so much to ask of you. If you can't come, when shall I find you, and where? " Alice sent back a note, saying that she would be in Park Lane as soon as she could put on her bonnet and walk down ; and then the Mercury went home in his cab. Alice found her friend in the small breakfast-room upstairs, sitting close...
Page 215 - I don't want to know anything about it. I don't want to be involved. Besides, in my own experience, a million dollars shouldn't come so easy. Take my advice and forget whatever it is you've got planned.
Page 140 - I'm not going to ask — I'm going to make him give me an explanation. He shall hear — he shall hear. At least he shall understand that he cannot insult the ladies of my family with impunity.
Page 229 - I don't think it matters how your feelings towards me remained — for they have changed now, completely, haven't they?
Page 90 - Mrs. Castleton announced her approaching marriage and her desire to make a provision for her future husband. Except for this provision, she was meaning as before to leave everything to Elaine.
Page 48 - Did he say this to everybody, or was he saying it to her specially ? QESPERSEN, 1954, Part 4, p.
Page 236 - EG 261 quite careless as to the amount of work that she did or as to what dark or even dangerous places the work led her | Jenkins B 219 Bindle's glance left no doubt in Mr.

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