desire

He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood—his rose-white boyhood, as Lord Henry had once called it. He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to...

When we entered the house we found my uncle surrounded by workmen and porters, who were packing up. Your portmanteau is not packed--my papers are not in order--the precious tailor has not brought my clothes, nor my gaiters--the key of my carpet bag is gone!" I...

One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds ...

But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast. I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have give...

"Look!" said the Professor, in something of the manner of the French general, pointing out the pyramids to his army. And fully partaking his stupefaction, if not his joy, I read on the eastern side of the huge block of stone, the same characters, half eaten aw...

The secret is out, so why should you any longer refuse me?” “If it is _sure_ to make you happy to have me as your wife, and you feel that you do wish to marry me, _very, very_ much—” “I do, dearest, of course!” “I mean, that it is only your wanting me very muc...

With pain that was like the bitterness of dissolution she murmured the words of her indispensable and sworn answer as an honourable woman. “O Mr Clare—I cannot be your wife—I cannot be!” The sound of her own decision seemed to break Tess’s very heart, and she ...

What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and glad welcome, to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness? Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son? I wish to ...

The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on. You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to begin.” The other added:-- “He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.” I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes i...

Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again; s...

Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her habit--says he loves; and, indeed, I don’t wonder that he does. Then she went on in a half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to hersel...

He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands. He said to me:-- “I can do this, all that can be at the present.

Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take p...

Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother. As for the gentleman himself, _his_ feelings were chiefly expressed,...

Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous but I did not feel comfortable. However, there was business to be done, and I could allow nothing to interfere with it.