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• The Cost Of Kindness  by Jerome K. Jerome
  Mrs. Pennycoop, gentlest of little women, laid her plump and still pretty hands upon her husband's shoulders. "Don't think, dear, I haven't sympathized with you. You have borne it nobly. I have marvelled sometimes that you have been able to control yourself as you have done, most times; the things that he has said to you

• Tommy and Co.  by Jerome K. Jerome
  "I'm a poor old thing," it seemed to say. "I don't shine -- or, rather, I shine too much among these up-to-date young modes. I only hamper you. You would be much more comfortable without me."

• Passing of the Third Floor Back  by Jerome K. Jerome
  The constable at the corner, trying to seem busy doing nothing, noticed the stranger's approach with gathering interest. "That's an odd sort of a walk of yours, young man," thought the constable.

• Three Men on the Bummel  by Jerome K. Jerome
  He said that if we were mean and cowardly and false-hearted enough to stoop to such a shabby trick, he supposed he couldn't help it; and that if I didn't intend to finish the whole bottle of claret myself

• Told After Supper  by Jerome K. Jerome
  Christmas Eve is the ghosts' great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete.

• They and I  by Jerome K. Jerome
  A good round-dozen oaths the Captain must have let fly before Dick and I succeeded in rolling her out of the room. She had only heard them once, yet, so far as I could judge, she had got them letter perfect.

• Sketches In Lavender, Blue And Green  by Jerome K. Jerome
  The girl's face wrinkled with a laugh that aged her. In that moment it was a hard, evil face, and with a pang the elder woman thought of that other face, so like, yet so unlike

• The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow  by Jerome K. Jerome
  What a good time our ancestors must have had was borne in upon me when, on one occasion, I appeared in character at a fancy dress ball. What I represented I am unable to say, and I don't particularly care.

• Paul Kelver  by Jerome K. Jerome
  I awake to find myself hurrying through noisy, crowded thoroughfares, where flaring naphtha lamps illumine fierce, patient, leaden-coloured faces; through dim-lit, empty streets, where monstrous shadows come and go upon the close-drawn blinds

• Novel Notes  by Jerome K. Jerome
  I felt hurt at the implied sneer. I pointed out to her that there already existed a numerous body of specially-trained men employed to do nothing else but make disagreeable observations upon authors and their works

• Tea-Table Talk  by Jerome K. Jerome
  It seems to me," said the Philosopher, "that, if anything, Love is being exposed to too much light. The subject is becoming vulgarised. Every year a thousand problem plays and novels, poems and essays, tear the curtain from Love's Temple

• The Philosopher's Joke  by Jerome K. Jerome
  She supposed it was her husband who had been my informant: he was just that sort of ass. She did not say it unkindly. She said when she was first married, ten years ago, few people had a more irritating effect upon her than had Camelford;

• The Soul Of Nicholas Snyders  by Jerome K. Jerome
  They said he had no soul, but there they were wrong. All men own--or, to speak more correctly, are owned by--a soul; and the soul of Nicholas Snyders was an evil soul.

• The Love Of Ulrich Nebendahl  by Jerome K. Jerome
  Perhaps of all, it troubled most the Herr Pfarrer. Was he not the father of the village? And as such did it not fall to him to see his children marry well and suitably? marry in any case.

• Malvina Of Brittany  by Jerome K. Jerome
  The Doctor never did believe this story, but claims for it that, to a great extent, it has altered his whole outlook on life.

• Idle Ideas in 1905  by Jerome K. Jerome
  "Charmed. Very hot weather we've been having of late--I mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is a bit close." And a silence falls, neither of us being able to think what next to say.

• Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies  by Jerome K. Jerome
  It was a point with Mr. Korner always to be cheerful in the morning. "Greet the day with a smile and it will leave you with a blessing," was the motto Mrs. Korner, this day a married woman of six months and three weeks standing had heard her husband murmur before getting out of bed on precisely two hundred and two occasions.

• Evergreens  by Jerome K. Jerome
  They are not the showy folk; they are not the clever, attractive folk. (Nature is an old-fashioned shopkeeper; she never puts her best goods in the window.) They are only the quiet, strong folk; they are stronger than the world

• Dreams  by Jerome K. Jerome
  The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me.

• John Ingerfield etc  by Jerome K. Jerome
  If you take the Underground Railway to Whitechapel Road (the East station), and from there take one of the yellow tramcars that start from that point, and go down the Commercial Road, past the George, in front of which starts -- or used to stand -- a high flagstaff

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