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I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine.
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By Jove...' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
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And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.
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A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.
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My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever... . You will get through....
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there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard
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Mark's horror came from the fact that Christopher proposed to eschew comfort. An Englishman's duty is to secure for himself for ever, reasonable clothing, a clean shirt a day, a couple of mutton chops grilled without condiments, two floury potatoes, an apple pie with a piece of Stilton and pulled bread, a pint of Club Medoc, a clean room, in the winter a good fire in the grate, a comfortable arm-chair, a comfortable woman to see that all th..
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Mrs. Vanderdecken,' Sylvia went on, 'says all men are repulsive and it's woman's disgusting task to live beside them.
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There, there, my dear boy,' he said, 'come and have a sloe gin. That's the real answer to all beastly problems.
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But, even with all her differences, Mrs. Basil did not appear to Lenora to differ so very much from herself. She was truthful, honest and, for the rest, just a woman. And Lenora had a vague sort of idea that, to a man, all women are the same after three weeks of close intercourse.
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And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday.
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I call this the Saddest Story, rather than 'The Ashburnham Tragedy,' just because it is so sad, just because there was no current to draw things along to a swift and inevitable end. There is about it none of the elevation that accompanies tragedy; there is no about it no nemesis, no destiny. Here were two noble people - for I am convinced that both Edward and Lenora had noble natures - here, then, were two noble natures, drifting down life,..
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He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him.
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She was by that time tired of men, or she imagined that she was; for she was not prepared to be certain, considering the muckers she saw women coming all round her over the most unpresentable individuals. Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had r..
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IT has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotions puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses.
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I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.
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But the fellow talked like a cheap novelist. - Or like a very good novelist for the matter of that, if it's the business of a novelist to make you see things clearly.
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It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal - it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.
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But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!
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indecency
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parade-s-end
sylvia-tietjens
betrayal
loyalty
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She had to have men at her feet; that was, as it were, the price of her - purely social - daily bread as it was the price of the daily bread of her intimates. She was, and had been for many years, absolutely continent. And so very likely were, and had been, all her Moiras, and Megs, and Lady Marjories - but she was perfectly aware that they had to have, above their assemblies as it were, a light vapour of the airs and habits of the brothel...
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It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.
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A great night, with room enough for Heaven to be hidden there from our not too perspicacious eyes.... It was said that an earthquake shock imperceptible to our senses set those cattle and sheep and horses and pigs crashing through all the hedges of the county. And it was queer: before they had so started lowing and moving Mark was now ready to swear that he had heard a rushing sound. He probably had not! One could so easily self-deceive one..
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The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
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From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: 'Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!' And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the touch of a sigh because we are not in that Provence where even the saddest stories are gay.
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It was astonishing that Mark, who was a millionaire at least, and probably a good deal more, should live in such a dingy apartment - it had for its chief decoration the hoofs of several deceased race-winners, mounted as inkstands, as pen-racks, as paper-weights - and afford himself only such a lugubrious breakfast of fat slabs of ham over which bled pallid eggs....
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AT the slight creaking made by Macmaster in pushing open his door, Tietjens started violently. He was sitting in a smoking-jacket, playing patience engrossedly in a sort of garret bedroom. It had a sloping roof outlined by black oak beams, which cut into squares the cream-coloured patent distemper of the walls.
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there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard and he almost doubts her inscrutable wisdom.
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But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.
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She said: 'Would you take this bit of parchment.... I got a little Jew girl to write on it in Hebrew: It's "God bless you and keep you: God watch over you at your goings out and at ..." ' He tucked it into his breast pocket. 'The talismanic passage,' he said. 'Of course I'll wear it...."
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You and I are like two people . . .' He paused and began again more quickly: 'Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read "Monkey's Soap"; if you look back when you've passed it's "Needs no Rinsing." . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet ..
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The beastly Huns! They stood between him and Valentine Wannop. If they would go home he could be sitting talking to her for whole afternoons. That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk.
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That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...
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So she had looked in on Mark, reading his correspondence with his copy of The Times airing on a chair-back before the fire - for he was just the man to retain the eighteen-forty idea that you can catch cold by reading a damp newspaper.
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The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!
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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened."
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She had views on virtue, pride, downfalls, human careers, the habits of cats, fish, the clergy, diplomats, soldiers, women of easy virtue, Saint Eustachius, President Grevy, the purveyors of comestibles, custom-house officers, pharmacists, Lyons silk weavers, the keepers of boarding-houses, garotters, chocolate-manufacturers, sculptors other than M. Casimir-Bar, the lovers of married women, housemaids.... Her mind in fact was like a cupboar..
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You see in such a world as this, an idealist -- or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist -- must be stoned to death.
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We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!
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It has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotion puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses. In the smaller matters of the general run of life he will be impeccable and not to be moved; but in sudden confrontations of anything but physical dangers he is apt--he is, indeed, almost certain--to go to pieces very badly.
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I know!' Father Consett said. 'You're a beautiful woman. Some men would say it was a lucky fellow that lived with you. I don't ignore the fact in my cogitation. He'd imagine all sorts of delights to lurk in the shadow of your beautiful hair. And they wouldn't.' Sylvia brought her gaze down from the ceiling and fixed her brown eyes for a moment on the priest, speculatively.
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I Tietjens, ktory nie nienawidzil nikogo, majac przed soba prostolinijnego czlowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczal rozmyslac nad tym, jak to ludzkosc traktowana jednostkowo byla niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zas stawala sie zjawiskiem ohydnym.
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Przepraszam, ze bylam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawde irytujace, ze stoi sie jak wypchany krolik, podczas gdy mezczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dzentelmena, chlodnego i zorganizowanego, z cala poza ziemianina i wszystkim.
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some-do-not
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Jest pan zadziwiajacy, jak na mezczyzne, ktory stara sie zachowywac jak ukwial!
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It was the mentality that obsessed him: the exact mind, the impatience of solecisms and facile generalizations!... A queer catalogue of the charms of one's lady love!... But he wanted to hear her say: "Oh, chuck it, Edith Ethel!" when Edith Ethel Duchemin, now of course Lady Macmaster, quoted some of the opinions expressed in Macmaster's critical monograph about the late Mr Rossetti... How very late now!"
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