As for the momentary madness which had fallen upon him on the eve of his marriage, he had trained himself to regard it as the last of his discarded experiments. The idea that he could ever, in his sen...
Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.
And that nice little balcony is yours? How cool it looks up there!
And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.
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...
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
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...
Богатые бездельники, деятельный народ, который, за неимением занятий, бесконечно кружил по свету, гонимый невесть каким зудом.
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...
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...
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.
Проблема с принятыми сгоряча решениями в том, что на другое утро обычно сам не знаешь, к чему всё это…
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...
If the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—’’ She
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
Znao je da je nešto propustio: bit života. Ali je o njoj sad mislio kao o nečemu tako nedostižnom i nevjerojatnom da bi žaliti za njom bilo kao da očajavaš što na lutriji nisi dobio glavni zgoditak. U...
What’s the use—when you will go back? he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words.
Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.