Excerpt from Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree "No, my dear May, I positively will not bear another word about 'Love in a Cloud.' I am tired to death of the very sound of its stupid name." "Oh, Mrs. Harbinger," May Calthorpe responded, eagerly defensive, "it is n't a stupid name." Mrs. Harbinger settled herself back into the pile of gay cushions in the corner of the sofa, and went on without heeding the interruption: - "I have heard nothing but 'Love in a Cloud, ' 'Love in a Cloud, ' until it gives me a feeling of nausea. Nobody talks of anything else." May nodded her...
Excerpt from Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree "No, my dear May, I positively will not bear another word about 'Love in a Cloud.' I am tired t...
Excerpt from The Intoxicated Ghost, and Other Stories It was not her beauty which made Irene Gaspic unusual, although she was bewitchingly pretty; nor yet her wit, her cleverness, or her wealth, albeit she was well endowed with all these good gifts: other girls were pretty, and wise, and witty, and rich. It was something far more piquant and rare which marked Irene as different from her mates, the fact being that from her great-aunt on the mother's side, an old lady who for nearly ninety years displayed to her fellow-mortals one of the most singular characters possible, Irene had...
Excerpt from The Intoxicated Ghost, and Other Stories It was not her beauty which made Irene Gaspic unusual, although she was bewitchingly pretty;...
