He read them with a watchful eye to guard them from the critics.

ANTONIA, whatever her faults as a writer, was not one of the order whose Muse is the Public Taste.

She did at least draw her inspiration from herself, and there was much to be feared in her work, if a sale was the object.

Otherwise Redworth's highly critical perusal led him flatly to admire.

This was like her, and that was like her, and here and there a phrase gave him the very play of her mouth, the flash of her eyes.