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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent ...more

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... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the ...more

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My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could pla...more

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He had, indeed, one of those advantages which men who had lived and moved in the world enjoy over others, even men of intelligence and refinement, who...more

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their gene...more

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look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and f...more

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She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refrained from copying it. This was not to say that, f...more

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... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

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Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ...more

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... the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom s...more

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But when his mistress for the time being was a woman in society, or at least one whose birth was not so lowly, nor her position is so irregular that h...more

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... they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations eith...more

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At the moment when, ordinarily, there was still an hour to be lived through before meal-time sounded, we would all know that in a few seconds we shoul...more

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It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke ...more

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And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inabi...more