The Woodlanders

Нет, по-моему, бабы умнее не стали, оттого что умны-то они всегда были.

Когда отвергаешь человека, потом чувствуешь к нему жалость.

The petulance that relatives show towards each other is in truth directed against that intangible Cause which has shaped the situation no less for the offenders than the offended, but is too elusive to be discerned and cornered by poor humanity in irritated mood.

He blushed a little, shook his head at her, and drove on ahead into the streets, the churches, the abbey, and other mediæval buildings on this clear bright morning having the linear distinctness of architectural drawings, as if the original dream and vision of the conceiving master-mason were for a brief hour flashed down through the centuries to an unappreciative age.

Even among the moodiest, the tendency to be cheered is stronger than the tendency to be cast down; and a soul's specific gravity constantly re-asserts itself as less than that of the sea of troubles into which it is thrown.

The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools.

Смерть Джайлса с потрясающей убедительностью показала Грейс, как мало значат блестящее образование и культура в сравнении с чистотой души и благородством характера.

О, - воскликнула она в отчаянии... какой эгоизм! Всегда вести себя правильно! Слишком, слишком правильно! И вот теперь это глупое соблюдение приличий убивает человека с таким благородным сердцем, какое никогда еще не билось ни для одной женщины!