Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

"Tómate las cosas con más calma. No te preguntes tanto si esto o lo de más allá es bueno para ti. No interrogues tanto a tu conciencia, o acabará desafinada como un piano aporreado". 🩵

GRACIAS, Ralph, por expresar que Henrietta se tiene que meter en sus cosas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

“She had long before this taken old Rome into her confidence, for in a world of ruins the ruin of her happiness seemed a less unnatural catastrophe. She rested her weariness upon things that had crumbled for centuries and yet still were upright…” (p 511)