The Benefactor: A Tale of a Small Circle. E-book. Formato PDF Ford Madox Hueffer   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

"Oh, I don't suspect him - What's his name? Hailes? - of an eye to your spoons," Mrs. Gregory Moffat said to her husband's brother; "but I've said a hundred times, George, that I don't see why you should turn your house into an asylum. What claim has he?"George Moffat said: "Everyone has claims of one sort or another," with his large air of peaceable and majestic obstinacy. He had argued the matter too often."Precisely," Mrs. Moffat snapped in her high, convicting voice. "I suppose he writes, or something. You'd do much more good if you did some work of your own" (George made a placid and amused gesture of negation) "instead," Mrs. Moffat finished, "of wasting all your time and most of your money on these creatures. You know they usually turn out rank impostors."She cast meaning glances, first at her husband, then at Mrs. Henwick. Her husband, Gregory Moffat, beamed through gold-rimmed spectacles.

On Heaven and Poems: Written on Active Service. E-book. Formato PDF Ford Madox Hueffer   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

With the exception of On Heaven and four others, all these poems were written on active service. On Heaven was written, as far as I can remember, during the early months of 1914.

The 'Half Moon': A Romance of the Old World and the New. E-book. Formato PDF Ford Madox Hueffer   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

My task became easier still when I found that Colman, the first European to die between the shores of the Hudson River, was a freeman of Rye — of that quarter of the world which I know and love best. For you could not have a better object lesson than Rye, in the seventeenth century, of what it was that made America. Rye then had many privileges that had descended to it from the Middle Ages; it had, like its sister towns of the Cinque Ports, its own laws, its own rights, its own nobility, quite apart from those of the rest of England. These laws and privileges pressed heavily on the poorer inhabitants and caused much unrest and discontent. Rye, too, had been almost depopulated by the Plague in the days of Queen Elizabeth, and, in consequence, a whole popula tion of foreign Protestants, Dutch, German and Huguenot, had been given leave to settle in Rye and around the walls.