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الأمريكيات في ذلك العصر🤦🏻‍♀️

“What's the use of adoring you without hope of a reward if I can't have a few compensations? What's the use of being ill and disabled and restricted to mere spectatorship at the game of life if I really can't see the show when I've paid so much for my ticket? ”

“For the moment, however, he liked immensely being alone with her, in the thickening dusk, in the centre of the multitudinous town; it made her seem to depend upon him and to be in his power. This power he could exert but vaguely; the best exercise of it was to accept her decisions submissively which indeed there was already an emotion in doing. ”

“My dear cousin, what's one to do among you all?" Ralph demanded. "Miss Stackpole tells me it's my bounden duty, and that it's hers, in general, to see I do mine!”
😂

“but because she suddenly felt sorry for Ralph. It seemed to her he was talking as a blind and had little heart in what he said.”

“Never mind what they call you. When you do suffer they call you an idiot. The great point's to be as happy as possible.”

“His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.”
This melts my heart !

“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation—a meagre entertainment for a young man who felt that he might have been an excellent linguist.”

“A secret hoard of indifference—like a thick cake a fond old nurse might have slipped into his first school outfit—came to his aid and helped to reconcile him to sacrifice;”

أيقنت أن ما يجذبني للرواية ليست القصة ولا الأبطال ولا الحبكة فقط يجذبني السرد.. كيف لجيمس هذا الإبداع في الوصف والتشبيه كأن رالف حي أمامي يجلس في الشمس في فلورنسا ويتحاور مع رئتيه يترجاهما أن يتحسنا ليعوذ إلى لندن😭