Ta näis sõnatult ütlevat: "Vaadake mind. Ma olen oma panuse andnud. Ma olen kaunis. See minu ilu on midagi täiesti ebatavalist. Ma olen loodud inimeste rõõmuks. Aga mis ma ise sellest saan? Kus on minu tasu?"
See oligi viimase kümne aasta peamine muutus; ja see tegelikult oligi tema tasu - see teda igavesti saatev nõiduslik nukrus, mis läks otse südamesse ja võttis sõnad suust; see andis tema ilule täiuse.
Tead, kui ma vaatan seda oma suurt kinniseotud jalga, siis ma ei saa lahti tundest, et mul on podagra, ja see tekitab hirmsat �šampuseisu.
Evelyn WaughI've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
Evelyn WaughHere my last love had died.
Evelyn WaughI suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
Evelyn WaughTags: blessings martyrdom self-denial aesthetism
Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.
Evelyn WaughTags: nostalgia introspection
My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.
Evelyn WaughTags: expectations potential fathers-and-sons
There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.
Evelyn WaughTags: novelty sophomoric
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
Evelyn WaughTags: identity marriage compromise
I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
Evelyn WaughTags: fashion excellence tradition timelessness fads
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