Name’s Regina Dallas,’ I said, ‘It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it’s got to stay Beaufort now that he’s covered you with shame.’ ’’ So
No doubt the rabbit always thinks it is fascinating the anaconda.
Put into words by this selfish, well-fed, and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.
She always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
The first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles, he reflected; but the worst of it was that M...
They had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
To be able to look life in the face: that’s worth living in a garret for, isn’t it?
Вместо возможной зависимости, вынужденного возврата к прежней жизни, состоящей из компромиссов и уступок, она увидела перед собой — когда решит выбрать их — свободу, силу и достоинство. ...которое в т...
О, не, изобщо не искаше на Мей да бъде присъща такава наивност, тази наивност, която предпазва ума от въображението, а сърцето — от житейския опит.
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
He could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!
He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.
And the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got...
And he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and...
He arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life
How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?
The endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.
Богатые бездельники, деятельный народ, который, за неимением занятий, бесконечно кружил по свету, гонимый невесть каким зудом.
Её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)
Жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)
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