ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryRemembering the attention she had attracted on her first appearance in Raymond’s world she concluded that she had "gone off" or grown dowdy, and instead of wasting more time in museums and lecture-halls she prolonged her hours at the dress-maker’s and gave up the rest of the day to the scientific cultivation of her beauty. […]
Hubert and his wife, in expectation of the birth of an heir, had withdrawn to the sumptuous chateau which General Arlington had hired for them near Compiegne, and Undine was at least spared the sight of their bright windows and animated stairway. But she had to take her share of the felicitations which the whole […]
It was of no consequence that the details and the technicalities escaped her: she knew their meaningless syllables stood for success, and what that meant was as clear as day to her. Every Wall Street term had its equivalent in the language of Fifth Avenue, and while he talked of building up railways she was […]
"That so? Why on earth don’t you cut it and come up to Paris?" "Oh, Raymond’s absorbed in the estates–and we haven’t got the money. This place eats it all up." "Well, that sounds aristocratic; but ain’t it rather out of date? When the swells are hard-up nowadays they generally chip off an heirloom." He […]
He laughed too, holding her eyes. "Oh, out of sight! The Consolidation set me on my feet. I own pretty near the whole of Apex. I came down to buy these tapestries for my private car." The familiar accent of hyperbole exhilarated her. "I don’t suppose I could stop you if you really wanted them!" […]
