“Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”
Prologue
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
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Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 14, “Since There’s No Help, Come, Let Us Kiss and Part!”
“Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 6, “Embarras de Richesses”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 7, “Gratitude—a Lively Sense of Favours to Come”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”
“Candour’s the cement of friendship.”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”
“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 17, “High Words”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 8, “Bachelor’s Quarters”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 4, “At Large”
Источник: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 8, “Paid in His Own Coin”
Источник: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 3, “The Third Cheque”
““No doubt the fault was mine,” said the Professor, in a tone that implied the opposite.”
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”
Источник: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 2, “The Second Cheque”
“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!”
she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”
Источник: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 8, “Paid in His Own Coin”
