From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906).
The school was assembled for evening prayers, some threescore boys representing for the most part the well-to-do middle class of a manufacturing county. At either end of the … Read the rest
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906).
A young woman of about eight-and-twenty, in tailor-made costume, with unadorned hat of brown felt, and irreproachable umbrella; a young woman who walked faster than any one in … Read the rest
It was five o’clock on a June morning. The dirty-buff blind of the lodging-house bedroom shone like cloth of gold as the sun’s unclouded rays poured through it, transforming all they illumined, so that things poor and … Read the rest
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906).
‘I possess a capital of thirty thousand pounds. One-third of this is invested in railway shares, which bear interest at three and a half per cent.; another third … Read the rest
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906).
Among the men whom I saw occasionally at the little club in Mortimer Street,–and nowhere else,–was one who drew my attention before I had learnt his name or … Read the rest
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906).
‘I must be firm,’ said Miss Shepperson to herself, as she poured out her morning tea with tremulous hand. ‘I must really be very firm with them.’
Firmness … Read the rest