"I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe Coburg, might be much more to the purpos…"

"All the time I was at work on the Two Cities, I read no books but such as had the air of time in them."

"Fills Ilion, Rome, or any town you like Of olden time with timeless Englishmen."

"Those who put the historical novel in a category apart are forgetting that what every novelist does is only to interp…"

"Black Robe is an historical novel, in a way, but it doesn't give you the heavy padding that historical novels do. The…"

"He felt her cold little lips and her small cold mouth, her little cold hands that felt so greedy. / ‘Daddy, you'll ne…"

"Her breath began drawing slower, soot and sleep sealed her eyes. / Her face in sleep looked furtive yet innocent, lik…"

"‘The poorer people are the more likely they are to help you,’ Kitty told him the next morning after they had once aga…"

"YOU ARE NOW ENTERING ARROYO / Pop. 955 / A statistic that didn't include the Mexican woman whose residence was just f…"

"‘Un-utter-uble sorrows is in store for all,’ he gave his holy word – a Santa Claus with nothing save horrors in his s…"