Wed 4 Sep, 2013 10:28 pm - Lady Veula had married into a family of commercial solidity and enterprising political nonentity. She had a devoted husband, some blonde teachable children, and a look of unutterable weariness in... (view)
Wed 4 Sep, 2013 08:57 pm - The mare made some small delicate pretence of being roadshy, not the staring dolt-like kind of nervousness that shows itself in an irritating hanging-back as each conspicuous wayside object... (view)
Mon 2 Sep, 2013 10:09 pm - He had wandered through Hungarian horse-fairs, hunted shy crafty beasts on lonely Balkan hillsides, dropped himself [b]pebble-wise [/b]into the stagnant human pool of some Bulgarian monastery,... (view)
Mon 2 Sep, 2013 02:13 am - “Doesn’t it make you conceited, Courtenay,” she asked, “to look at all those foreign newspapers hanging there and know that most of them have got paragraphs and articles... (view)
Mon 2 Sep, 2013 01:58 am - “There’s always a chastening corrective in the thought that some of them may have printed your portrait. When once you’ve seen your features hurriedly reproduced in the Matin, for... (view)
Sun 1 Sep, 2013 08:52 am - With special complacence she contemplated her cousin Suzette, who was self-consciously but not very elatedly basking in the attentions of her fiancé, an earnest-looking young man who was... (view)
Thu 29 Aug, 2013 05:13 am - In the warmth of a late June morning the long shaded stretch of raked earth, gravel-walk and rhododendron bush that is known affectionately as[b] the Row was alive with the monotonous movement and... (view)
Mon 26 Aug, 2013 02:21 am - If either of the young men was seriously “making the running,” it was probable that she would hear some sly hint or open comment about it from one of Serena’s gossip-laden... (view)
Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:28 am - On turning a corner out of a narrow coppice-bordered lane into a wider road that sloped steadily upward in a long stretch of hill Elaine saw, coming toward her at no great distance, a string of... (view)