The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

Chapter 20 A bright morning, and everybody and everything in South London singing cheerfully. Elderly birds in cages, cocking one eye and looking up at the sky, on being hung outside windows straightway began an air of which they had nearly forgotten the tune; the people hurrying along the pavements hummed or whistled; shopkeepers chatted…

The “Almighty Dollar” in London Society CHAPTER I.Advertising for a Chaperon Americans are accused of having a too implicit confidence in the purchasing power of their country’s coin. In fact, certain foreigners have been known to say that the God referred to in the motto, “In God we trust,” engraved on the silver dollar, is…

CHAPTER XXV ESCAPADES — HUNGER STRIKES — SMUGGLED IN AN ACTRESS’S HAMPER — I VISIT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Gradually all the conspirators who had been tried with me were released. We compared notes; described our matrons, our doctors, our special wardresses, but I kept to myself the story of the taxi breakdown. I thought…

Chapter VII Myra’s Little Ram Elinor and Ruth had met in New York and taken the train up the river. They sat primly clasping box and bundle on the lengthwise seat near the door of the coach. “Strange that Myra did not make connections,” said Elinor, trying to keep her foot from tapping in eager…