The orchid. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Grant   -  Robert Grant, 2016  - 

It was generally recognized that Lydia Arnold's perceptions were quicker than those of most other people. She was alert in grasping the significance of what was said to her; her face clearly revealed this. She had the habit of deliberating just an instant before responding, which marked her thought; and when she spoke, her words had a succinct definiteness of their own. The quality of her voice arrested attention. The intonation was finished yet dry: finished in that it was well modulated; dry in that it was void of enthusiasm.

The art of living. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Grant   -  Robert Grant, 2016  - 

Rogers, the book-keeper for the past twenty-two years of my friend Patterson, the banker, told me the other day that he had reared a family of two boys and three girls on his annual salary of two thousand two hundred dollars; that he had put one of the boys through college, one through the School of Mines, brought up one of the girls to be a librarian, given one a coming-out party and a trousseau, and that the remaining daughter, a home body, was likely to be the domestic sunshine of his own and his wife’s old age. All this on two thousand two hundred dollars a year.

Country Sentiment. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Graves   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Country Sentiment (1920) was Graves' attempt to escape from the horrors of our post-World War I era. He remained haunted by the memory of the war, as were many for the rest of their days, while others were able to wipe the memory and move on. Brilliant wordplay and forceful feelings, with more so-called children's poems than people tend to remember. While a handful of these poems survived in later collections by the poet, there are many good, ingenious, elegant and "thoroughly English" poems that didn't & yet deserve to be remembered.