Название: Coelebs
Автор: F. E. Mills Young
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066172367
isbn:
F. E. Mills Young
Coelebs
The Love Story of a Bachelor
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066172367
Table of Contents
"The Love Story of a Bachelor"
F.E. Mills Young
"Coelebs"
"The Love Story of a Bachelor"
Chapter One.
John Musgrave stood before the fire in his dining-room, a copy of the Daily Telegraph in his hands. He was not reading the paper; he was looking over the top of it at his new housemaid, as she brought in his breakfast, and, with many depreciatory sniffs which proclaimed a soul above such lowly service, set it carefully down upon the snowy damask.
He approved of her. It was natural that he should approve of her, considering he had himself engaged her for three very good reasons; the first and all-sufficient reason being that he invariably engaged his own servants; the second, that she was by no means young; the third, that she was plain and respectable.
It is an interesting psychological fact that plain people are more generally respectable than handsome people. From this it is not fair to infer that virtue is necessarily hard-featured; but temptation more frequently assails the beautiful. As temptation is a thing to be avoided, this doubtless is one of Nature’s niggardly attempts at compensation. Which of us, given the choice, would not unhesitatingly pronounce for the endowment СКАЧАТЬ