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zhit', kak zhivut rabochie, v dvukh komnatakh, bez prislugi... (Siuzi Branch - Streffordu)
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Edith Wharton |
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It seemed to her the diabolical instrument of their estrangement.
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Edith Wharton |
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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
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Edith Wharton |
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He started to walk across the Common, and on the first bench, under a tree, he saw her sitting. She had a gray silk sunshade over her head--how could he have ever imagined her with a pink one?
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Edith Wharton |
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I wonder what her fate will be?'' ''What we've all contrived to make it,'' he
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Edith Wharton |
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Some human happiness is a landlocked lake; but the Grancys' was an open sea, stretching a buoyant and inimitable surface to the voyaging interests of life. There was room to spare on those waters for all our separate ventures; and always, beyond the sunset, a mirage of the fortunate isles toward which our prows were bent.
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marriage
happiness
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Edith Wharton |
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Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?
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Edith Wharton |
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Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection,
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Edith Wharton |
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Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five. "Oh, Ethan, it's time!" she cried. He drew her back to him. "Time for what? You don't suppose I'm going to leave you now?" "If I missed my train where'd I go?" "Where are you going if you catch it?" She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his. "What's the good of either of us going anywheres without the other one now?" he said."
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tragic-love-story
suicide-attempt
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Edith Wharton |
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est' mnogo sposobov otvetit' na pis'mo -- i, kak ni stranno, pisat' -- eto ne moi sposob. (Nik Lensing - Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called "poky people"--her generic name for persons who did not play bridge--and, it being her habit to group all such obstructionists in one class, she usually invited them together, regardless of their other characteristics. The result was apt to be an irreducible combination of persons having no other quality in common than their abstinence from bridge, and the antagonisms developed in a group lac..
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Edith Wharton |
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a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.
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Edith Wharton |
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The extravagance in dress--" Miss Jackson began. "Sillerton took me to the first night of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry's dress was the only one I recognised from last year; and even that had had the front panel changed. Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them."
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Edith Wharton |
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Yes; she's one of the few. In my youth," Miss Jackson rejoined, "it was considered vulgar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that in Boston the rule was to put away one's Paris dresses for two years. Old Mrs. Baxter Pennilow, who did everything handsomely, used to import twelve a year, two velvet, two satin, two silk, and the other six of poplin and the finest cashmere. It was a standing order, and as she ..
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Edith Wharton |
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he wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The
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Edith Wharton |
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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 universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?
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Edith Wharton |
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He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them."
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Edith Wharton |
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The bravest mob of independent fighters has little chance against a handful of disciplined soldiers, and the Church is perfectly logical in seeing her chief danger in the Encyclopaedia's systematised marshalling of scattered truths. As long as the attacks on her authority were isolated, and as it were sporadic, she had little to fear even from the assaults of genius; but the most ordinary intellect may find a use and become a power in the r..
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Edith Wharton |
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But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves. He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life; and after the long dull days in the office the evenings at his grandfather's whist-table did not give him the counter-stimulus he needed.
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Edith Wharton |
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is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
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Edith Wharton |
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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 and mourning; but as he followed the abate up successive flights of stairs and down long corridors full of shadow he heard a sound of dance music below and caught the flash of girandoles through the antechamber doors. The thought that his fathe..
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Edith Wharton |
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The contrast to his life of subjection at Donnaz; the precocious initiation into motives that tainted the very fount of filial piety; the taste of this mingled draught of adulation and disillusionment, might have perverted a nature more self-centred than his. From this perversion, and from many subsequent perils he was saved by a kind of imaginative sympathy, a wondering joy in the mere spectacle of life, that tinged his most personal impre..
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Edith Wharton |
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Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.
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unhappiness
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Edith Wharton |
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The bravest mob of independent fighters has little chance against a handful of disciplined soldiers, and the Church is perfectly logical in seeing her chief danger in the Encyclopaedia's systematised marshalling of scattered truths. As long as the attacks on her authority were isolated, and as it were sporadic, she had little to fear even from the assaults of genius; but the most ordinary intellect may find a use and become a power in the r..
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Edith Wharton |
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He met indeed many accomplished and amiable ecclesiastics, but it seemed to him that the more thoughtful among them had either acquired their peace of mind at the cost of a certain sensitiveness, or had taken refuge in a study of the past, as the early hermits fled to the desert from the disorders of Antioch and Alexandria. None seemed disposed to face the actual problems of life, and this attitude of caution or indifference had produced a ..
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Edith Wharton |
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Toward Florence he was specially drawn by the fact that Alfieri now lived there; but, as often happens after such separations, the reunion was a disappointment. Alfieri, indeed, warmly welcomed his friend; but he was engrossed in his dawning passion for the Countess of Albany, and
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Edith Wharton |
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Whether by this he meant the clergy I know not; though I observed he spoke favourably of that body in France, pointing out that, long before the recent agitations, they had defended the civil rights of the Third Estate, and citing many cases in which the country curates had shown themselves the truest friends of the people: a fact my own observation hath confirmed. I remarked to him that I was surprised to find how little talk there was in ..
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Edith Wharton |
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The columns of the Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages. Fresh from his talk with Crescenti, Odo lingered curiously
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Edith Wharton |
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The young man had not been long at Donnaz without discovering that in that little world of crystallised traditions the chaplain was the only person conscious of the new forces abroad. It had never occurred to the Marquess that anything short of a cataclysm such as it would be blasphemy to predict could change the divinely established order whereby the territorial lord took tithes from his peasantry and pastured his game on their crops. The ..
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Edith Wharton |
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Her incapacity to recognise change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his;
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Edith Wharton |
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He had known moments of happiness since; moments when he believed in himself and in his calling, and felt himself indeed the man she thought him. That was in the exaltation of the first months, when his opportunities had seemed as boundless as his dreams, and he had not yet learned that the sovereign's power may be a kind of spiritual prison to the man. Since then, indeed, he had known another kind of happiness, had been aware of a secret v..
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Edith Wharton |
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What are the Italians of today but men tricked out in women's finery, when they should be waiting full-armed to rally at the first signal of revolt? Oh, for the day when a poet shall arise who dares tell them the truth, not disguised in sentimental frippery, not ending in a maudlin reconciliation of love and glory -- but the whole truth, naked, cold and fatal as a patriot's blade; a poet who dares show these bedizened courtiers they are no ..
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Edith Wharton |
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stremlenie, kotorym on kogda-to gordilsia, zhit' nastoiashchim momentom i pol'zovat'sia liubym predostavliaiushchimsia shansom -- teper' meshalo emu deistvovat'. On nachal ponimat', chto nikogda, dazhe buduchi v tesneishikh otnosheniiakh s zhizn'iu, ne zagliadyval dal'she siiuminutnogo udovol'stviia. On schital, chto eto prekrasno -- umet' v polnoi mere naslazhdat'sia momentom, a ne prenebregat' im v pogone za chem-to bol'shim ili inym, na ..
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Edith Wharton |
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Vse te neznakomtsy i neznakomki, kotorym ona ulybalas' mimokhodom, na kotorykh ogliadyvalas' s zavist'iu, byli svobodny ot potrebnostei, raboi kotorykh byla ona, i oni ne poniali by, o chem ona tolkuet, esli by ona rasskazala im, kak mnogo ei nuzhno deneg na plat'ia, na sigarety, na bridzh, i ekipazhi, i chaevye, i prochie dopolnitel'nye raskhody i chto kak raz seichas ona dolzhna byla by bezhat' nazad, na obed v britanskom posol'stve, gde ..
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Edith Wharton |
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Vlast' veshchei, bez kotorykh, kak vsem nam kazhetsia, mozhno oboitis'. Chelovecheskie privychki prochnei egipetskikh piramid. Udobstva, roskosh', atmosfera svobody... a prevyshe vsego vozmozhnost' izbezhat' skuki i monotonnosti, ogranichennosti i urodstva... ...eto vse veshchi neprekhodiashchie, neobkhodimye prezhde vsego. (Strefford - Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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zamysly dolzhny sozret', - novye vpechatleniia redko prinosiat nemedlennyi rezul'tat. (Greis Falmer - Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and fatal passions, were really on the side of the angels, were fighting the battle of the spiritual against the sensual, of conscience against appetite.
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Edith Wharton |
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Vmesto vozmozhnoi zavisimosti, vynuzhdennogo vozvrata k prezhnei zhizni, sostoiashchei iz kompromissov i ustupok, ona uvidela pered soboi -- kogda reshit vybrat' ikh -- svobodu, silu i dostoinstvo. ...kotoroe v takom mire, kak ikh mir, mogut obespechit' lish' bogatstvo i polozhenie v obshchestve. (Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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Donnaz and kept him there a whole summer adorning the banqueting-room. "But I advise you, little master," Bruno added, "not to talk too loudly of your discovery; for we live in changed days, do you see, and it seems those are pagan sorcerers and witches painted on the wall, and because of that, and their nakedness, the chaplain has forbidden all the young boys and wenches about the place to set foot there; and the Marchioness herself, I'm t..
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Edith Wharton |
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O, blagoslovennaia nravstvennaia svoboda, kotoruiu daruet bogatstvo!
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Edith Wharton |
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esli chelovek otkazyvaet sebe vo vsem, eto otravliaet ego zdorov'e i kharakter. (Elli Vanderlin - Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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Po pravde skazat', v eio zhizni s Falmerami ne bylo ni minuty pokoia, no vsia eta sumatokha kazalas' Siuzi menee bessmyslennoi i potomu menee utomitel'noi, chem sueta, kotoroi soprovozhdalos' sushchestvovanie liudei vrode Oltringema, Ursuly Dzhillou, Elli Vanderlin i ikh svity... (O Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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eio... pamiat' ne sootvetstvovala shirote eio interesov. (O missis Khiks)
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Edith Wharton |
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Her departure left no traces but were speedily repaired by the coming of spring. The sun growing warmer, and the close season putting an end to the Marquess's hunting, it was now Odo's chief pleasure to carry his books to the walled garden between the castle and the southern face of the cliff. This small enclosure, probably a survival of medieval horticulture, had along the upper ledge of its wall a grass walk commanding the flow of the str..
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Edith Wharton |