Chapter 1-5 quotes Flashcards
‘The second reason…
… for his delay was a personal one. He had dawdled over his cigar’
‘Her white, gloved…
… finger tips touch the flowers softly’
‘He did not wish…
… the future Mrs Newland Archer to be a simpleton’
’ ‘‘form’’ must be congenital…
… in anyone who knew how to wear such good clothing so carelessly’
‘Mr Jackson was…
… a great authority on family’
‘She bolted…
… with his secretary’
‘Whatever difficulties…
… her cousins anomalous situation might involve’
‘The persons of…
… their world lived in an atmospheres of faint implications and pale delicacies’
‘And that left 364…
… days of the year to shut it in darkness’
‘This undoubted superiority…
… was felt to compensate for whatever was regrettable in Beaufort’s past’
‘Ritual of ignoring…
… the unpleasant in which they had both been brought up’
‘Which on a day of such glaring…
… sunlight, and at the ‘shopping hour’’ seemed in itself and indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do’
‘Fundamental groups of…
… the Mingotts and the Mansons and all their clan who cared about eating and clothes and money’
‘The Archer-Newland-Van-de-Luyden tribe…
… who were devoted to travel, horticultural and the best fiction’
‘The upper floor…
… was dedicated to Newland’
