Lord Arthur Savile's Crime1st World Publishing, 2004 - 160 strán (strany) Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsruhe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. |
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... thought Mr. Podgers would mind . ' Of course , he won't mind , ' said Lady Windermere , ' that is what he is here for . All my lions , Lord Arthur , are performing lions , and jump through hoops whenever I ask them . But I must warn you ...
... thought Mr. Podgers would mind . ' Of course , he won't mind , ' said Lady Windermere , ' that is what he is here for . All my lions , Lord Arthur , are performing lions , and jump through hoops whenever I ask them . But I must warn you ...
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... thought of Sybil Merton , and the idea that anything could come between them made his eyes dim with tears . Looking at him , one would have said that Nemesis had stolen the shield of Pallas , and shown him the Gorgon's head . He seemed ...
... thought of Sybil Merton , and the idea that anything could come between them made his eyes dim with tears . Looking at him , one would have said that Nemesis had stolen the shield of Pallas , and shown him the Gorgon's head . He seemed ...
Strana 22
... thought he could detect the stain of blood already upon them , and a faint cry broke from his trembling lips . Murder ! that is what the cheiromantist had seen there . Murder ! The very night seemed to know it , and the desolate wind to ...
... thought he could detect the stain of blood already upon them , and a faint cry broke from his trembling lips . Murder ! that is what the cheiromantist had seen there . Murder ! The very night seemed to know it , and the desolate wind to ...
Strana 24
... thought made him sick with horror . He turned on his heel , and hurried on into the night . Where he went he hardly knew . He had a dim memory of wandering through a labyrinth of sordid houses , of being lost in a giant web of sombre ...
... thought made him sick with horror . He turned on his heel , and hurried on into the night . Where he went he hardly knew . He had a dim memory of wandering through a labyrinth of sordid houses , of being lost in a giant web of sombre ...
Strana 25
... thought of all the days that break in beauty , and that set in storm . These rustics , too , with their rough , good- humoured voices , and their nonchalant ways , what a strange London they saw ! A London free from the sin of night and ...
... thought of all the days that break in beauty , and that set in storm . These rustics , too , with their rough , good- humoured voices , and their nonchalant ways , what a strange London they saw ! A London free from the sin of night and ...
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CHAPTER IV | 36 |
CHAPTER V | 40 |
CHAPTER VI | 54 |
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST | 57 |
CHAPTER II | 63 |
CHAPTER V | 81 |
CHAPTER VI | 88 |
CHAPTER VII | 93 |
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET | 99 |
THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE | 107 |
THE PORTRAIT OF MR W H | 115 |
CHAPTER II | 136 |
CHAPTER III | 152 |
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