Chapter 16 quotes Flashcards
‘May Welland standing…
…under a Mahalia in the son’
‘As she walked beside…
…Archer with her long swinging gait, her face wore the vacant serenity of a young, marble athlete’
“But European society is not…
…given to divorce: Countess Olenska thought she would be conforming to American Ideals in asking for her freedom’
‘He asked himself if…
…May’s face was doomed to thicken into the same middle-aged image of invincible innocence’
‘Under her hat-brim…
…he was the pallor of her profile, and a slight tremor of the nostril above her resolute sleaded lip’
‘There was something so superhuman…
… in an attitude so recklessly unorthodox, and id other problems had not pressed on him, he would have been lost in wonder at the parody of the Welland daughter urging him to marry his former mistress’
‘transparent…
…eyes’
