“Her profession? Ah! as to that, English readers, try not to be too severe. Russia is a great, but hard mistress, who demands of all her children work according to their means and ability. The word spy has an ugly… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love” — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“Love, the great, the strong, the conquering god --- Love that subdues a world, and rides roughshod over principle, virtue, tradition, over home, kindred,… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“Dear heart,” he murmured, “do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“…in joy he will invariably dance; when he is in love he will dance, for the czardas helps him to explain to the girl… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“He usually shrank from extreme measures. Mirkovitch’s bloodthirsty speeches grated upon his nerves, and having spent a miracle of ingenuity in combining some deadly… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“The invigorating scent of the sea was nectar to her wearied body, the immensity of the lonely cliffs was silent and dreamlike. Her brain… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“that they are all willing over there to die for the good cause. They are not, as we are, fond of life and liberty;… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“Is it love to worship a saint in heaven, whom you dare not touch, who hovers above you like a cloud, which floats away… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and” — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all that, no one dared to interfere. Burke had exhausted all his eloquence in trying to induce the British Government to fight… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“From the railway station far away the sharp clang of a bell...In half an hour the train starts, and there is so much still… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“What did Volenski know of how he stood in the eyes of the Russian police? Living mostly abroad and consorting in a great measure… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“And among them all Taurus Antinor, praefect of Rome, with his ruddy hair and bronzed skin, his massive frame clad in gorgeously embroidered tunic.” — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
