“Mrs. Alingsby was tall and weird and intense, dressed rather like a bird-of-paradise that had been out in a high gale, but very well connected. She had long straight hair which fell over her forehead, and sometimes got in her… — E.F. Benson Copy Share
“There were some hours to spare before his ship sailed, and having deposited his luggage, including a locked leather despatch-case, on board, he lunched… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Alingsby was tall and weird and intense, dressed rather like a bird-of-paradise that had been out in a high gale, but very well connected. She had long straight hair which fell over her forehead, and sometimes got in her eyes, and she wore on her head a scarlet jockey-cap with an immense cameo in front of it. She hated… — E.F. Benson Copy Share
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at our backs, and a panel of light from the lamps within was cast out to the terrace. Wandering moths, invisible in the darkness, suddenly became manifest as they fluttered into this illumination, and vanished again as… — E.F. Benson Copy Share
“The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has been charted and mapped out. But outside that lie huge tracts of undiscovered country, which certainly exist, and the real pioneers of knowledge are those who, at the cost of being derided as credulous and superstitious, want to push on into those misty… — E.F. Benson Copy Share
“Miss Elizabeth Mapp might have been forty, and she had taken advantage of this opportunity by being just a year or two older. Her face was of high vivid colour and was corrugated by chronic rage and curiosity; but these vivifying emotions had preserved to her an astonishing activity of mind and body, which fully accounted for the comparative adolescence… — E.F. Benson Copy Share
...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
“With regard to religion, finally, it may be briefly said that she believed in God in much the same way as she believed in… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
“He looked sharply towards the pollarded trees. 'Yes, just there,' he said. 'I saw it plainly, and equally plainly I saw it not. And… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
“I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added that naturally he was!' 'It's… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light. — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
