[Gutenberg 433] • The Conflict

Excerpt 1:

As the long strides of the tall, slender man brought him rapidly nearer; his face came into plain view. A refined, handsome face, dark and serious. He had dark-brown eyes - and Miss Hastings did not like brown eyes in a man. She thought that men should have gray or blue or greenish eyes, and if they were cruel in their love of power she liked it the better.

Excerpt 2:

Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the unchanged house spacious, old-fashioned looking down from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City, looking out upon a charming panorama of hills and valleys in the heart of South Central Indiana