Barren honour, by the author of 'Guy Livingstone'. Orig. publ. in 'Fraser's magazine'. |
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Page 129 - ... passed and a reckoning-day had never come, the debt still remained, written out as legibly in her memory as Foscaro's in Loredano's tablets. That evening, when the visitors had taken their departure, • the fair hostess leaned back wearily on her sofa and beckoned her husband to her side. When he came she laid her hand on his arm and looked up into his eyes rather plaintively, but not in the least reproachfully. "Dear Hubert!
Page 113 - ... dreary in sitting down to an elaborate description of luxuries or riches that have passed away from us long ago, or which have hitherto eluded us altogether. I am not inclined to laugh much at Mr. Scrivener's enthusiasm (he writes the ' high-life ' tales for the Dustpan and other penny periodicals) when he dilates on the splendours of Lady Hermegild's boudoir, hung with mauve velvet* and silver, or on the glories of the Duke of Devorgoil's banquet, where everything is served on the purest gold...