Strolling players; a harmony of contrast (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Extract: "Tout est perdu pour l'honneur" IT is all up with us, Selva . So spoke Sir Lewis Willingham, a tall, well set up soldierly man of some thirty years, with fair hair and moustaches, and a complexion only beginning to get its girlish red and white over-much blended together. A pretty little plump creature, with eyes of the deepest blue, long black lashes, and the blackest of hair, setting off lovely rosy tints that embellished childish and roguishly sweet features, sprang up, and jumped into his arms. ' Never mind, Lewis darling ! My experience is that one has just as much fun ruined as not ! I'd rather be a jolly old abbey, all over yellow lichen, and wallflower, and gold stems of stonecrop, than a horrid, brand new, red-brick house like Mr. Radford's ..