So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far away.
Bearing up, then, must be this: the feeling of perfect frozen stillness, so that to raise your hand was a wrenching and unnatural event. It was not being able to sleep or eat, and the small placid tone in which she heard herself decline the food. It was the presentiment that there must be a crack or a hole somewhere at hand down which she was to throw and extinguish herself, since there must surely be something provided to make this bearable.
Tag: grief
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
Jude MorganTag: money connections
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
Jude MorganA girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
Jude MorganTag: money relationships
People argue themselves out of their pleasures
Jude MorganYou can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
Jude MorganTag: friendship
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
Jude MorganIt is so important to think for yourself.
Jude MorganTag: thinking
It is not always easy, for a woman alone.
Jude MorganTag: single-women
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
Jude MorganTag: motivational
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