Ваша оценкаNineteen years is a long time. But when Peter Harding and Philip Bartels meet up again in the French countryside of their youth, the history and the dark secrets it holds are still there, tempered only slightly by time.
The two men share more than a past friendship. Decades earlier, trapped in a disenchanted marriage with his wife, Beatrice, Philip meets and falls in love with the graceful, charming Lorna Dickson. Overcome by the prospect of a humiliating divorce, Philip makes the decision t...
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Leshek15 июля 2017 г.May be everybody has three character-skins. The first skin is the one they try to present to the world, the deceptive skin; then comes the second skin, the concealed selfishness, cynicism, the callausness, covetousness, and greed; but then, if you dig deep enough, right down below it all, you find the third skin, that of the essential, basic child. insecure, needing to be loved and to love.
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It's always risky for a woman whose heart is ruled by her head to marry a man whose head is ruled by his heart.
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I thought sadly how heavily the dice were loaded against the wife in any triangle of this kind.
The other woman knows that the battle is on. The wife doesn't. The other woman is on her best behavior, trying to please, to charm, to flatter, and often, I suppose, to seduce.
The wife, knowing nothing, is behaving like a natural person does^ sometimes pleasant and amusing, sometimes dull, critical, or irritable. And silently watching her is her husband, nothing her faults, comparing her with the alleged paragon of all the virtues.16
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