"Why handsome?" Maggie would have been free to ask; since if she had been veracious the service assuredly would n't have been huge It would in that case have come up vividly, and for each of them alike, that the truth on the Princess's lips presented no difficulty. If the latter's mood in fact could have turned itself at all to private gaiety it might have failed to resist the diversion of seeing so clever a creature so beguiled. Charlotte's theory of a generous manner was manifestly to express that her stepdaughter s word, wiping out, as she might have said, everything, had restored them to the serenity of a relation without a cloud. It had been in short by this light ideally conclusive, so that no ghost of anything it referred to could ever walk again. What was the ecstasy of that, however, but in itself a trifle compromising?--as truly, within the week, Maggie had occasion to suspect her friend of beginning, and rather abruptly, to remember. Convinced as she was of the example already given her by her husband, and in relation to which her profession of trust in his mistress (280) had been an act of conformity exquisitely calculated, her imagination yet sought in the hidden play of his influence the explanation of any change of surface, any difference of expression or intention. There had been, through life, as we know, few quarters in which the Princess's fancy could let itself loose; but it shook off restraint when it plunged into the figured void of the detail of that relation. This was a realm it could people with images--again and again with fresh ones; they swarmed there like the strange combinations that lurked in the woods at twilight; they loomed into the definite and faded into the vague, their main present sign for her being however that they were always, that they were duskily, agitated. Her earlier vision of a state of bliss made insecure by the very intensity of the bliss--this had dropped from her; she had ceased to see, as she lost herself, the pair of operatic, of high Wagnerian lovers (she found deep within her these comparisons) interlocked in their wood of enchantment, a green glade as romantic as one's dream of an old German forest. The picture was veiled on the contrary with the dimness of trouble; behind which she felt indistinguishable the procession of forms that had lost all so pitifully their precious confidence.
同类推荐
热门推荐
替嫁:魔君的嗜血帝女
上官毅看着南宫残倔强的样子冷笑,端起毒酒亲自喂她喝下去,南宫残无力的反抗。上官毅将酒杯摔碎,转身离去。南宫残看着上官毅离去的背影用尽生命的最后一丝气息嘶喊:上官毅,如果有来生,我南宫残绝不会选择爱上你!绝不!我以我的生命起誓!再次重生后看见了那个让她既爱又恨的男人,她却无力反抗,只因她与他……一场替嫁的闹剧开始了她悲残的一生……一张平常的脸下隐藏着一张绝世容颜,成了她最致命的伤痕。一滴滴晶莹的泪珠是为了祭奠她那无缘的孩子还是为了她那没有结果的爱?到了最后才发现,原来她与他是命中注定,是无法解开的死结。她真的可以得到幸福吗?还是她早已将幸福的权利抛弃了……君爱美人妾爱钱
穿越回古代,成为婴儿怎么办?没事,有爹亲,有娘爱,还是个千金小姐,衣食无忧,比在现代当个小白领累死累活强多了。但是在这个一妻多妾制的古代,要想一辈子衣食无忧,光有好爹好娘不够,还得找个好相公。放眼一看,男人很多,各种类型都有,花红柳绿。可是要从中挑出一个好相公,真得很难啊!堪比沙里淘金。金子没淘到,却嫁给了个好色男。他去爱他的美人,咱爱咱的金子。人活在世上想要衣食无忧,还得靠自己。咱会女红,会厨艺,会琴棋书画,会做生意…不靠男人,咱照样能活得逍遥自在。◆◆◆◆推荐《引凤阁》精彩好文◆◆◆◆【邪瞳】北棠【破日】李筝【傲风】风行烈【离婚】风中雀【凰权】天下归元【简随云】草木多多【朕本红妆】央央【庶女无敌】雁无痕【侯门嫡女】素素雪【军火皇后】潇湘冬儿【黑道贵妇】漫天花雨【侯门正妻】沐榕雪潇【祸水皇后-】枫飘雪【皇家小尤物】北宗殿下【君爱美人妾爱钱】夜纤雪【夫君,不安好心】静海深蓝推荐自己的新文:玲珑耀石地狱门
耀石大陆上,流传着一句话,修罗门出,无一生还。但是,卿云璃不信,初生牛犊的她放话江湖,我要挑战修罗门,至此,她走到哪都是笑话。可当她一举拿下修罗门时,那些个声音逐渐消弱,但是与此同时,伴随着她的是无尽的痛苦,还有更加想让世人铲除的冷血作风,化身成为修罗,从前聪明伶俐,善良的女子,在遭遇一次又一次的欺骗,一次又一次的背叛时,她转身投入那个阴郁,狡诈,冷血的男人怀里,只为他的耀石。而那个男人丝毫不拒绝,反而很享受卿云璃的投怀送抱,原以为他可以就这样抱着卿云璃一生一世,却没想到那个女子早就无心无情。他冷血,她比他更冷血;她心向权利,他心向她;她发誓要改变大陆上的权局,他却一颗心给了她,却被随意碾碎。他生气,愤怒,想要把她的心也随意碾碎,却到最后,他还是下不去手,只因那颗心再破,再烂,也是她的。不以物喜,不以己悲:范仲淹
范仲淹,北宋著名文学家、政治家、军事家、教育家。本书以传记小说的形式,运用细腻委婉的笔触和曲折动人的情节,阐述了范仲淹“不以一心之戚,而忘天下之忧”的忧患人生,展现了他“先天下之忧而忧,后天下之乐而乐”的高贵节操。