In the distress that she caused me I forgot the years that had passed, and the change they had made in our position towards one another. I moved my chair close to her, and picked up her handkerchief from the carpet, and drew her hands from her face gently. “Don’t cry, my love,...
Jude immediately regrets his decision. Arabella is not a soul mate. He finds there is“something wrong in a social ritual which made necessary a cancelling of well-formed schemes involving years of thought and labour.”He can’t bring himself to feel that his lust for Arabella was a sin or...
but it is inexcusable for a married man. Jesus said that if a man even looks upon a woman with desire for her in his heart, it is the same as adultery. Adultery is not simply a physical act; it is an attitude.
Forthe years 1917/1918 onlyentries written byFrieda can befound.Additionally, abundle of letters written byFrieda duringthe war and ad-dressed to her familyinGermany has been preserved. Dueto censorshipregula-tions imposed by the British most of the letters are not especiallyinformative butmainly...
"Nothing—not a thing." I waited. "There was a fool skit34 in one of the St. Louis papers," he admitted. "The fool reporter didn't know I was married." "It was about you and Miss Filette?" He nodded. "She had bought all the St. Louis papers," he said, meaning his wife....
My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。 21 specks n.眼镜;斑点,微粒,污点( speck的名词复数 ) 参考例句: Minutes later Brown spotted two specks in the ocean. 几分钟后布朗发现海洋中有两个小点。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821 Do you ev...
“Yes, yes, but you must have a place in the country. I will not have this business coming between us, Charles. I shall break it off tomorrow if—“ Charles managed a smile. “Now you are being absurd. You might well have married many years ago.” “That may be. But the fact is...
The mother had a small income, and the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position which they had to keep up. The father went in to town to some office. But though he had good prospects2, these prospects never materialised. There was always the grinding ...
my family, having for once exhibited the normal reaction of a young person in my circumstances, and though I have laid much to the door of that institution of the retarding1 of my development and the dimming of the delicate surface of happiness, I think now it was not wholly bad for me...
“In order to survive. It must adapt itself to changes in the environment.” “Just so. Now that I can believe. I am twenty years older than you. Moreover, I have spent my life in a situation where if one does not—and very smartly—change oneself to meet the taste of the day, ...