Ada Leverson
Ada Leverson
Ada Esther Leversonwas a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle...
black suits looks
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
talking people may
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
past wells futurist
The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.
depressing real men
When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
letters knows
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ease gentleman last seemed
He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
aunt both conscience giving hand ignored pressed sovereign though took william
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.