As she stood there, in her long sealskin coat, her hands thrust in a small round muff, her veil drawn down like a transparent mask to the tip of her nose, and the bunch of violets he had brought her s...
As she sat thus, the lamplight full on her clear brow, he said to himself with a secret dismay that he would always know the thoughts behind it, that never, in all the years to come, would she surpris...
As she lay there she said to herself that there was something she must tell Selden, some word she had found that should make life clear between them. She tried to repeat the word, which lingered vague...
As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the univer...
Archer, through all his deeper feelings, tasted the pleasurable excitement of being in a world where action followed on emotion with such Olympian speed.
Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.
Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.
All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had bar...
Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows!
A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in ever...
Удивила его противоречивым сочетанием в ней современного чувства практической целесообразности и старомодного понятия честности... (Ник Лэнсинг - о Сюзи Бранч)
Стремление, которым он когда-то гордился, жить настоящим моментом и пользоваться любым предоставляющимся шансом — теперь мешало ему действовать. Он начал понимать, что никогда, даже будучи в теснейших...
Жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)
Есть много способов ответить на письмо — и, как ни странно, писать — это не мой способ. (Ник Лэнсинг - Сюзи Бранч)
Богатые бездельники, деятельный народ, который, за неимением занятий, бесконечно кружил по свету, гонимый невесть каким зудом.
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...
Проблема с принятыми сгоряча решениями в том, что на другое утро обычно сам не знаешь, к чему всё это…
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...
Власть вещей, без которых, как всем нам кажется, можно обойтись. Человеческие привычки прочней египетских пирамид. Удобства, роскошь, атмосфера свободы… а превыше всего возможность избежать скуки и мо...
She must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of...