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Excerpt from Some of Us Are Married It Seems too bad that I can't go to Aunt Kit's funeral - the very last member of the old family!" From the paper he was reading, Ben Bromley looked up yearningly at his wife, who sat by the window in a short-sleeved, pink gingham frock, shelling peas with expert fingers. It was ten a.m. on a warm Sunday, nobody was going to church, but the two small boys and little Alice were at Sunday school, the sixteen-y...

Excerpt from The Lovers of Sanna: A Novel About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in th...

Excerpt from Little Stories of Married Life Mrs. Waring had, unknown to her husband, set her mind for some months past on a cele bration of her wedding anniversary, the ob servance of which had lapsed, for one reason or another, for a couple of years, but she had said to herself firmly that Henry must propose it, and not leave it all to her. If she had to plan it out as she had their moving into the ountry, or their trip to the seashore last ...

Excerpt from The Suburban Whirl: And Other Stories of Married LifeOh, no indeed! Hazel's tone was even more animated than usual in the eflort to seem oblivious to the heavy, rhythmic tread in the room above, where Teresa, having been called from her Work for the occasion, was trying to walk the baby into quiet. We don't mind the distance at all! As the agent said, the walk is so beautiful that it really is an additional inducement in the summe...

Excerpt from More Stories of Married Life She hurried now as she walked across the field, feeling guiltily amid her disappointment that dinner would be waiting, and that she had left no word of her whereabouts with the maid, having in fact slipped out of the house unseen, to escape the clamouring notice of her only child, who was near his early bed time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...

Excerpt from Refractory HusbandsPreston, put down that book! It's too darkfor you to read, anyway. I was just saying that when Aunt Mary came you'd have to begin and go to church again. Besides, what would she think of me if you didn't? It would simply break her heart she wouldn't understand at all. Not that I understand it myself I never have! How a man, brought up as you were by her, can reconcile it to his conscience to stay away from churc...

Excerpt from The UnforeseenEvelyn had a feeling of pity for the people who were hurrying out of town by subway and trolley, to suburban homes, although there had been no special joy to crown her evenings for a long time, the rush and the glitter and the spectacle of the city in this alluring moment when the light of the fading sunset was caught into the myriad lights of the night had not yet lost its call to the imagination, it seemed as if th...

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