Alice Muriel Williamson

On a great ship a woman sailed away from the Old World, wishing to forget. In her mind was the thought of a far-off place toward which she was travelling. There were no figures in this mental picture. She painted it as a mere flowery background; for she was very tired of people....

Stephen Knight was very angry, though he meant to be kind and patient with Margot. Perhaps, after all, she had not given the interview to the newspaper reporter. It might be what she herself would call a fake. But as for her coming to stop at a big, fashionable hotel like the Carlton, in the circumstances she could hardly have done anything in...

One hears of people whose hair turned white in a single night. Last night I thought mine was turning. I had a creepy feeling in the roots, which seemed to crawl all the way down inside each separate hair, wriggling as it went. I suppose you couldn't have nervous prostration of the hair? I worried dreadfully, it kept on so long; and my hair is...

AUDRIE BRENDON TO HER MOTHER AT CHAMPEL-LES-BAINS, SWITZERLAND Rue Chapeau de Marie Antoinette, Versailles, July 4th...

THE HONBLE MRS. WINSTON (NEE MOLLY RANDOLPH) TO HER FRIEND, THE COUNTESS OF LANE On Board SS. Evangeline, March 15th...

Woman Disposes Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, To the silent wilderness. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. To your happiness, I said, lifting my glass, and looking the girl in the eyes. She had the grace to blush, which was the least that she could do, for a moment ago she had jilted me....