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Excerpt from A Tantalus Cup, Vol. 1 of 3They were an honourable family, and a pious, much respected by their neighbours, and without self-reproach. It is easy to be honest where there is no temptation to sin, easy to be pious where religion demands nothing beyond its outward observance easy to be respected when the purse is well filled and the table well covered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

Excerpt from A Tantalus Cup a Novel, Vol. 3 of 3Ellis stayed at the Langham Hotel all the next day, waiting and hoping for Zare's coming. As she had laid aside the passion for gambling, and followed him to London, she would not surely be driven away because she had seen him bending over Enid, and holding her hand in his. He argued.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...

Excerpt from A Tantalus Cup a Novel, Vol. 3 of 3 Ellis stayed at the Langham Hotel all the next day, waiting and hoping for Zare's coming. As she had laid aside the passion for gambling, and followed him to London, she would not surely be driven away because she had seen him bending over Enid, and holding her hand in his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

Excerpt from A Tantalus Cup, Vol. 1 of 3 'He's so ill-tempered, so morose - no one likes him.' It was only a child they criticised, and they were right, for he was what they had made him. Not as he came from his Creators's hand, not Divine work, but human, and so they despised him. He was a reproach to them for their little care, their feeble intellect, which could not mould even a child into anything of better than a creature 'so morose, so...