日期：2015-03-03 Therese, and nothing could have been more phlegmatic than his manner as he spoke, I have found a more reliable method than the one I proposed to attain our objectives, but numerous details are involved, and I dare not come so often to your room; at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 But my aunt is the creature I am going to destroy.... Oh, Therese, in a philosopher's view how frivolous are these consanguinary ties! Forgive me, but I do not even wish to discuss them, so futile are they. These contemptible chains, fruit of our la... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Oh! Monsieur, I responded, weeping, you would deprive an unfortunate of her fondest hope were you to wither in her heart this religion which is her whole comfort. Firmly attached to its teachings, absolutely convinced that all the blows leveled agai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 So obscure were these speeches I knew not how to answer: however, reply to him I did, on a chance, as it were, and perhaps with too great a facility. Must I confess it? Alas! yes; to conceal my shortcomings would be to wrong your confidence and poor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 My little dove, said the Count, severity in his tone, if you are looking for dupes, improve your style; neither my friend nor I ever sacrifice at your sex's impure temple; if it is money you are begging, look for people who are fond of good works, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 It was toward four o'clock in the afternoon when we entered the forest. Until then Saint-Florent had not once contradicted himself: always the same propriety, always the same eagerness to prove his sentiments for me; I should not have thought myself... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 May the hope or fear of a world to come, bred of those primordial lies, trouble you not, Therese, and above all give over endeavoring to forge restraints for us out of this stuff. Feeble portions of a vile crude matter, upon our death, that is to sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Oh Madame, I said to Dubois, asking her leave to reply to her execrable sophistries, do you not at all feel that your damnation is writ in what you have just uttered? At the very most, such principles could only befit the person powerful enough to h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 I, Sir, I become the mistress of a - Say the word, Therese, out with it: a scoundrel, eh? Oh, I admit it, but I have no other titles to offer you; that our sort does not marry you are doubtless well aware: marriage is one of the sacraments, Therese,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 While we were arguing thus, Dubois' four companions were drinking with the poacher, and as wine disposes the malefactor's heart to new crimes and causes him to forget his old, our bandits no sooner learned of my resolution than, unable to make me th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Monsieur Du Harpin let more than a month drift by, that is to say, he waited until the end of my second year with him, and waited without showing the least hint of resentment at the refusal I had given him, when one evening, having just retired to m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 The consequence was Dubourg became nothing if not more insolent; he laid upon me the blame for his weakness' mistakes, wanted to repair them with new outrages and yet more mortifying invectives; there was nothing he did not say to me, nothing he did... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Alas, Monsieur, I said, greatly confused, I am a poor orphan not yet fourteen years old and I have already become familiar with every nuance of misfortune; I implore your commiseration, have pity upon me, I beseech you, and then I told in detail of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Juliette had just attained her twentieth year when a certain Comte de Lorsange, a gentleman out of Anjou, about forty years of age, became so captivated by her he resolved to bestow his name upon her; he awarded her an income of twelve thousand poun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Juliette, employing other resources, then said to her sister, that with the age and the figure they both of them had, they could not die of hunger she cited the example of one of their neighbors' daughters who, having escaped from her father's house... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 O thou my friend! The prosperity of Crime is like unto the lightning, whose traitorous brilliancies embellish the atmosphere but for an instant, in order to hurl into death's very depths the luckless one they have dazzled. Yes, Constance, it is to t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-12-08 The weather was unusually warm for the last day of October. We didn't even needjackets. The wind was growing stronger, and Jem said it might be raining before we gothome. There was no moon. The street light on the corner cast sharp shadows on theRad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-12-08 Things did settle down, after a fashion, as Atticus said they would. By the middle ofOctober, only two small things out of the ordinary happened to two Maycomb citizens. No, there were three things, and they did not directly concern us -- the Finche... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-12-08 School started, and so did our daily trips past the Radley Place. Jem was in theseventh grade and went to high school, beyond the grammar-school building; I was nowin the third grade, and our routines were so different I only walked to school with J... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-12-08 Don't do that, Scout. Set him out on the back steps. Jem, are you crazy? I said set him out on the back steps. Sighing, I scooped up the small creature, placed him on the bottom step and wentback to my cot. September had come, but not a trace of coo... 阅读全文>>