Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations?
Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection,
Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?
You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My G...
A certain measure of contempt was attached to men who continued their philandering after marriage. In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown mo...
And once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Childish. Thereupon Filomena excused herself, that she might put a clean shirt on Jacopone, and Odo was left to his melancholy musings. His mind had of late run much on economic abuses; but what was a...
Is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
Running to and fro with trays of refreshments. Odo, who knew that his mother lived in the Duke's palace, had vaguely imagined that his father's death must have plunged its huge precincts into silence...
Seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He
The stoic’s carelessness of material things, combined with the epicurean’s pleasure in them.
You?—his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes—he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown hi...
О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!
По правде сказать, в её жизни с Фалмерами не было ни минуты покоя, но вся эта суматоха казалась Сюзи менее бессмысленной и потому менее утомительной, чем суета, которой сопровождалось существование лю...
Увы, только замужеством по меркам этого мира она могла добиться независимости от него же. (О Сюзи Бранч)
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites...
В чьей манере было изъясняться откровенно, когда не было причин, житейских или денежных, о чем то умалчивать. (О Сюзи Бранч)
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