I did not know one could buy companionship, he said, it sounds a primitive idea. Rather like the eastern slave market.I looked up the word companion once in the dictionary, I admitted,and it said 'a c...
I confess I found myself disenchanted. We hardly moved from this quarter, so crowded, so ill-smelling, among the poorest of the people, and when we did walk out it was only to call at the various ware...
I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.
He was not staring at her anymore. He was still. He had gone. The moment of truth had vanished forever, and she would never know. What had happened was Then, was already past, in some other dimension...
He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.
He leaned over the rail and stared down into the Pool with interest. It was certainly not much of a place, the water dark and rather slimy, the steps slippery-looking too. Grandfather must be right, a...
He is quite wrong, Robert would argue. Every young woman should know how to comport herself, and how to mix in society. Surely it depends upon the society? I would reply, despite my anxiety to learn....
He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped...
Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.
For myself, I could think of nothing more likely to cause panic and consternation among a crowd of women than to be shut up within a church without their menfolk, and to have the incessant clanging of...
Experience, Major Dodd, has long informed me that no man ever expresses admiration unless he wants something out of the person admired. That’s a very cynical view. I’m a cynical woman.
Es inútil, ¿verdad? Nunca la podrá vencer. Está muerta, pero aún manda aquí. Ella es la señora de verdad, y no usted. Aquien olvidan y dan de lado y rechazan... es a usted. ¿Por qué no se va de Mander...
Did you think that? said Maria. So did I. Oh, Niall… if I ever marry and have a baby, will you have it for me? It would be one way of getting famous, anyway, said Niall.
De Manderley no hablaríamos, ni yo le contaría mi sueño. Porque Manderley ya no era nuestro; Manderley ya no existe.
Daphne du Maurier was the fifth-generation descendant of a French master craftsman who settled in England during the Revolution. The Glass-Blowers, the fictionalized story of his family, was originall...
Curious thing that the younger men of today were glib enough when they talked of ideals and how everyone must progress in a changing world, but when the crunch came they were very ready to let the old...
Children's tears are very near the surface, and come at the first crisis.
Charles said, I haven’t looked at the Acrostic. A word of nine letters in the crossword caught my attention. Oh, what was that? An invertebrate animal preying upon the body of another animal. Niall st...
Camina solo e irás más lejos
Bitterness goes with people when they die.