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...union is often found in practice to be as tyrannical and as hard to escape from as the worst legal one. We may take it then that when a joint domestic... ...ome means of dissolu- tion. The conditions of dissolution may vary widely, from those on which Henry VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arra... ... command- ment, which English women will one day succeed in obliter- ating from the walls of our churches by refusing to enter any building where they... ...The late Hugh Price Hughes, an eminent Methodist divine, once organized in London a conference of respectable men 10 Shaw to consider the subject. No... ...hich they called education; and of keeping pianos in their houses, not for musical purposes, but to torment their daugh- ters with a senseless stupidi... ...e repeated here that no law, however stringent, can prevent polygamy among groups of people who choose to live loosely and be monogamous only in appea... ... discreetly. THE GENERAL. Whats the matter? MRS BRIDGENORTH. Reginald’s in London, and wants to come to the wedding. THE GENERAL [stupended] Well, das... ...preciated. I was made an hon- orary member of two of the smartest clubs in London when the truth came out. THE GENERAL. Well, sir, those clubs consist...

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...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...e mourners entered the publican’s house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the impor- tant question, what it should be? and re... ... ‘I have written to Mr. Goren, who was my husband’s fel- low-apprentice in London, my lady; and he is willing to in- struct him in cutting, and measur... ...ey Court. The Countess smiled, and in the few paces that separated the two groups, whispered to her brother: ‘Miss Jocelyn, my dear.’ The eye-glasses ... ...it for any other.’ ‘What do you mean?’ said Evan, thinking more of the un- musical laugh than of the words. He received no explanation, and the irksom... ... on a hump in the middle of the mound which defied the dance. Watteau-like groups were already couched in the shade. There were ladies of all sorts: t... ...ally dragged in her wake. ‘ Another dowager and fogy!’ cried the Countess, musically. ‘Do you not dance, my child?’ ‘Not till the music strikes up,’ r... ...alf- a-dozen ladies were collected, and then followed much laugh- ter, and musical hubbub, and delicate banter. So the ladies and gentlemen fell one a...

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...7 Selected Writings incidents which prompted them, that he also suf- fered from an excess of nervous emotionalism. Nine times out of ten, what is the ... ...ketches of brutal customs with an element of delicate scorn, preserves him from coarseness. It is this constant and involuntary antithesis which gives... ...or who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupassant generation to generation, envy reascends no less tha... ...ird and fan- tastic ideas of the later years of his career. Of these three groups the tales of the Norman peasantry perhaps rank highest. He depicts t... ...s cup- boards, there were a thousand knickknacks: small vases, statuettes, groups in Dresden china, gro- tesque Chinese figures, old ivory, and Veneti... ...the first time that I had lis- 144 De Maupassant tened to that beautiful, musical, and fairy-like drama, and I had derived from it the liveliest plea... ...as with a certain delight, mingled with astonishment that they gathered in groups this morning, repeating to each other this sentence, concocted by a ... ...the Tuileries and the Palais Royal at the same time; sometimes she went to London for a short time, or hurried off to Italy to watch the Hungarian exi... ...sel, and about his final arrival, by way of Yokohama and San Francisco, in London, whence he was directing all the operations of Nihilism. “ ‘You see,...