A Human Document Author:William Hurrell Mallock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3on his knife—his fingers with all those rings on them textit{1 I should be sorry to be a woman, alone with him, when he lost his temper." " Sir," said the doctor when the moment came fo... more »r parting, " I shall never forget your goodness to me a stranger." CHAPTER II. Vienna that spring, owing to certain public events, was unusually full of foreigners; and amongst them were numbers of the English who had been spending the winter on the Continent. Indeed, the British Ambassadress was fully justified in saying, as she said one evening to a cluster of old friends, that though that year she would be unable to go to London, for the last fortnight London had come to her. This remark was made in her own drawing-room, where the guests were assembling for a purely English dinner-party, and where London diamonds and London silks and satins were glittering and glimmering under constellations of candles. " My dear," she went on regretfully, as she drew aside from the others a distinguished-looking woman, the whiteness of whose well-crimp'ed hair, due though it was to age, had the youthful effect of powder, " I thought, of course, that you would have gone in with Julian; but the Princess's coming has disturbed all my arrangements, and I'm afraid I shall have to consign you to old Lord R instead. I am more sorry than I can say ; but you'll see that I've done my best for you. You will sit by his deaf ear, so you need not utter a word to him; and on the other side of you, you will have Robert Grenville." " Mr. Grenville!" said the lady whose fate was thus announced to her, " I met him first when he was an attachd in Paris, when half the French ladies were in love with him, and he had just published some love-poems. Somehow or other one has not heard much of him lately. He ought, with his talents, to have...« less