Footsteps behind him, Volume 2; Volume 118 |
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Page 32 - And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less: For what is noble should be sweet, But not dissolvd in wantonness.
Page 122 - ... women here. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're having children all the time — like dogs. It's too revolting. And to think that I ... Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford! And yet John was a great comfort to me. I don't know what I should have done without him.
Page 191 - I hope it may be a lesson to you, and that you will not be equally weak with Blanche or Lucie.