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Gerty continued: 'The important thing is that you should clear yourself—should tell your friends the whole truth.'
'The whole truth?' Miss Bart laughed. 'What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her.'
— 19 hours, 22 min ago
'The whole truth?' Miss Bart laughed. 'What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her.'
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Lucky
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‘You asked me just now for the truth—well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talked about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.’
— 19 hours, 20 min ago
Lucky
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His real detachment from her had taken place where he saw her definitely divided from him by the crudeness of a choice. It was before him again in its completeness—the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid coscliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.
— 19 hours, 55 min ago
Lucky
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Yes, she was matchless—it was the one word for her; and he could give his admiration the freer play because so little personal feeling remained in it.
— 19 hours, 56 min ago
Lucky
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But Monte Carlo is, of all places, the one where the human bond is least close, and odd sights are the least arresting.
— 21 hours, 9 min ago
Lucky
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'That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.'
'Sometimes,' she added, 'I think it's just fightiness—and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study.'
— Dec 20, 2025 04:19PM
'Sometimes,' she added, 'I think it's just fightiness—and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study.'
Lucky
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She was realizing for the first time that a woman's dignity may cost more to keep up than her carriage; and that the maintenance of a moral attribute should be dependent on dollars and cents, made the world appear a more sordid place than she had conceived it.
— Dec 17, 2025 06:05PM
Lucky
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"I am bad through and through want admiration, I want excitement, I want money—" yes, money!
That's my shame, Gerty—and it's known, it's said of me—it's what men think of me—If I said it all to him—told him the whole story—said plainly: "I've sunk lower than the lowest, for I've taken what they take, and not paid as they pay"—if I told him everything would he loathe me?
— Dec 17, 2025 05:53PM
That's my shame, Gerty—and it's known, it's said of me—it's what men think of me—If I said it all to him—told him the whole story—said plainly: "I've sunk lower than the lowest, for I've taken what they take, and not paid as they pay"—if I told him everything would he loathe me?
Lucky
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Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.
— Dec 17, 2025 05:50PM
Lucky
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Lily might be incapable of marrying for money, but she was equally incapable of living without it.
— Dec 17, 2025 04:35PM
Lucky
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But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.
— Dec 17, 2025 04:17PM
