Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V1, by W. Howells [WH#13][wh1nf10.txt]3366 [Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] Aug 2002 Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells [WH#12][whtwj10.txt]3365 [Full Title: Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1895] Aug 2002 Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells [WH#11][whdbp10.txt]3364 [Full Title: Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells, 1881] Aug 2002 Fennel And Rue, by William Dean Howells [WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363 [Full Title: Fennel And Rue, by W. D. Howells, 1908] Aug 2002 The Kentons, by William Dean Howells [WH#09][whken10.txt]3362 [Full Title: The Kentons, by W. D. Howells, 1902] EDITOR'S NOTE Readers well acquainted with the works of William Dean Howells may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. The etext editor will be glad to add your suggestions. One of the advantages of internet over paper publication is the ease of quick revision. All the titles may be found using the Project Gutenberg search engine. After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation into the 'Find' or 'Search' functions of the user's word processing program. The quotations are in two formats: 1. Small passages from the text. 2. A list of alphabetized one-liners. The editor may be contacted at <widger@cecomet.net> for comments, questions or suggested additions to these extracts. D.W. WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS THE KENTONS [WH#09][whken10.txt]3362 "Well, that's good," said the young man, and while he talked on she sat wondering at a nature which all modesty and deference seemed left out of, though he had sometimes given evidence of his intellectual appreciation of these things. She was polite to them all, but to Boyne she was flattering, and he was too little used to deference from ladies ten years his senior not to be very sensible of her worth in offering it. She in turn, to be sure, offered herself a sacrifice to the whims of the sick girl, whose worst whim was having no wish that could be ascertained, and who now, after two days of her mother's devotion, was cast upon her own resources by the inconstant barometer. It was more difficult for Mrs. Kenton to get rid of the judge, but an inscrutable frown goes far in such exigencies. FENNEL AND RUE [WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363 I used almost to die of hunger for something to happen. She had downed the hoary superstition that people had too much of a good time on Christmas to want any good time at all in the week following; and in acting upon the well-known fact that you never wanted a holiday so much as the day after you had one, she had made a movement of the highest social importance.