Wives and Daughters

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• For many minutes after he had ridden away - long after the sound of his horse's hoofs on the round stones of the paved lane, beyond the home-meadows, had died away - Molly stood there, shading her eyes, and looking at the empty space of air in which his form had last appeared. Her very breath seemed suspended; only, two or three times, after long intervals, she drew a miserable sigh, which was caught up into a sob. She turned away at last, but could not go into the house, could not tell Mrs Hamley,could not forget how her father had looked and spoken - and left her. (查看原文)

  姆明。 2013-03-30 20:02:22

• She did not take her eyes away from his, as her quivering lips formed the word 'Yes,' though her voice made no sound. He was silent again now; looking on the ground, kicking softly at a loose pebble with his foot. His thoughts did not come readily to the surface in the shape of words; nor was he apt at giving comfort till he saw his way clear to the real source from which consolation must come. At last he spoke - almost as if he was reasoning out the matter with himself. (查看原文)

  姆明。 2013-03-31 10:36:22