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Все те незнакомцы и незнакомки, которым она улыбалась мимоходом, на которых оглядывалась с завистью, были свободны от потребностей, рабой которых была она, и они не поняли бы, о чем она толкует, если бы она рассказала им, как много ей нужно денег на платья, на сигареты, на бридж, и экипажи, и чаевые, и прочие дополнительные расходы и что как раз сейчас она должна была бы бежать назад, на обед в британском посольстве, где её неизменное право на подобные излишества было бы торжественно признано и подтверждено. (О Сюзи Бранч)

Edith Wharton

Все те незнакомцы и незнакомки, которым она улыбалась мимоходом, на которых оглядывалась с завистью, были свободны от потребностей, рабой которых была она, и они не поняли бы, о чем она толкует, если бы она рассказала им, как много ей нужно денег на платья, на сигареты, на бридж, и экипажи, и чаевые, и прочие дополнительные расходы и что как раз сейчас она должна была бы бежать назад, на обед в британском посольстве, где её неизменное право на подобные излишества было бы торжественно признано и подтверждено. (О Сюзи Бранч)

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About Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.