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TYPES OF MODERN SOCIETY: A Series of Satirical Portraits of London Types.; V.--The Ever Hopeful Spinster

... a pauper, his real heart was revealing itself. She was too flooded with emotion to speak. Besides, she recollected how absurdly her voice cracked when she tried to speak in moments so emotional as these. I will go away now, he said, and will call again ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 28 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... Thank you very much for the message, said the teacher cour teously, who is that speaking? This query rather staggered the delinquent. Er this is my father speaking, Tommy faltered lamely. HE was one of those golfing duffers whose lack of skill is ...

THE STAGS KNOW IT

... there, wringing her hands. Then, we notice that her clothes are wet. Our tongue cleaves to the roof of our mouth, and we can't speak but, we observe her accurately. Her clothes are wet her long hair is dabbled with moist mud she is dressed in the fashion of ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 68 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

for an hour's talk with --with, shall we say, Miss Fair?

... and purple as the sun fell, a London golden like temples on its banks. From Mortlake to the mouth of the Wandle we did not speak. Then, Lovely, Phyllis sighed. But you know, Mr. Moon, we shan't get this in Paris. Nor yet in the Italian lakes. All for ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2425 | Page: 62 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative