The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things TheatricalPercy Ives Publishing Company, 1906 - 312 páginas |
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... position quite equal to that of a man's , often surpassing some men's in point of monetary remuneration , well may a woman brave almost any hardship , overcome innumerable obstacles to reach a height so full of compensation for her ...
... position quite equal to that of a man's , often surpassing some men's in point of monetary remuneration , well may a woman brave almost any hardship , overcome innumerable obstacles to reach a height so full of compensation for her ...
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... position ; for surely , what my sisters saw no harm in doing themselves , they could not blame in me . Never did I spend a more miserable hour . I liked Mr. Softlee , and to my artistically thinking soul his conversation was most ...
... position ; for surely , what my sisters saw no harm in doing themselves , they could not blame in me . Never did I spend a more miserable hour . I liked Mr. Softlee , and to my artistically thinking soul his conversation was most ...
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... position whom such a revelation would have cost their heart's blood in agony ; to whom it would have meant so much that , even if they had heard " him " say it , they would have gone on loving " him " just the same , going to any ...
... position whom such a revelation would have cost their heart's blood in agony ; to whom it would have meant so much that , even if they had heard " him " say it , they would have gone on loving " him " just the same , going to any ...
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... position for which I might be best fitted by any quality that I might develop . Never- theless , here I had run away from my first much- sought - after , yearned - for engagement before the season had passed , not because of any setback ...
... position for which I might be best fitted by any quality that I might develop . Never- theless , here I had run away from my first much- sought - after , yearned - for engagement before the season had passed , not because of any setback ...
Página 93
... position at the time this one had been offered me . I would probably be able to do a little better now , for I was not entirely an amateur . By the time I reached the hotel where I had roomed before , I had argued myself into quite a ...
... position at the time this one had been offered me . I would probably be able to do a little better now , for I was not entirely an amateur . By the time I reached the hotel where I had roomed before , I had argued myself into quite a ...
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The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things Theatrical (Classic ... H. A. Dennison Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 100 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Página 245 - It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 100 - And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 32 - ... father ; and for Henderson, — well, pleasantly, as her friend. The fine, lasting romance of their relationship was heightened almost unendurably for Shore by this threefold apprehension of it. He got up yearningly, went over to her, touched her shoulders once with his hands lightly, then put the hands in his pockets and began to pace up and down in front of her, after a habit of his. His lips shook a little, and his brow tightened and relaxed, tightened, relaxed. Once, a keen pain twitched...
Página 57 - I had a letter from her the other day, in which she wrote, " I have three silver forks which you quite ruined.
Página 74 - He had become so much a part of my daily life that I dared not give him up. "And I am ill," I whimpered, "and need someone to love me.