Books with author Martin Ross

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...alias pigs' feet, a grisly delicacy peculiar to Irish openair holiday-making, and the July sun blazed on a scene that even Miss Cecilia Shute found to be almost repayment enough for the alarms of the drive. "As a rule, I am so bored by driving that I find it reviving to be frightened," she said to me, as we climbed to safety on a heathery ridge above the fields dedicated to galloping the horses; "but when my brother scraped all those people off one side of that car, and ran the pole into the cart of lemonade-bottles, I began to wish for courage to tell him I was going to get out and walk home." "Well, if you only knew it," said Bernard, who was spreading rugs over the low furze bushes in the touching belief that the prickles would not come through, "the time you came nearest to walking home was when the lash of the whip got twisted round Nancy's tail. Miss Knox, you're an authority on these things--don't you think it would be a good scheme to have a light anchor in the trap, and when the horses began to play the fool, you'd heave the anchor over the fence and bring them up all standing?" "They wouldn't stand very long," remarked Miss Sally. "Oh, that's all right," returned the inventor; "I'd have a dodge to cast them loose, with the pole and the splinter-bar." "You'd never see them again," responded Miss Knox demurely, "if you thought that mattered." "It would be the brightest feature of the case," said Miss Shute. She was surveying Miss Sally through her pincenez as she spoke, and was, I have reason to believe, deciding that by the end of the day her brother would be well on in the first stages of his fifteenth love affair. It has possibly been suspected tha...

The line separating flesh from spirit can be elusive.... Teenaged altar boy Jonah Gregory's faith is strong, even if some of his beliefs are unconventional. Jonah is certain Christ is gay, like him, and he knows the devotion he feels is mutual. His plans to become a priest are called into question when he meets Rusty Naylor, the closeted son of a famous romance novelist. Not only is Rusty attractive and charming, he could be Jesus's twin. Jonah is torn between the calling of his soul and the desires of his body-a distinction that grows more and more muddled since Jonah can't look at Rusty without imagining the Lord, and vice versa. Worse yet, Jonah feels caught in a tug-of-war between them. As Jonah struggles to determine the course of his life, he's aided by his parents, Rusty's famous mother, a surly Father from Brooklyn, and the two men who hold sway over his heart: Rusty and the Lord.

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