Chapter 6 quotes Flashcards
‘That terrifying product of the social system…
…he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland’s familiar feature’
“women should be…
…free - as free as we are”
‘with a shiver of foreboding…
…he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on one side, and hypocrisy on the’
‘The young man was sincerely…
…but placidly in love. He delighted in the radiant good looks of his betrothed, in her health, her horsemanship, her grace and quickness at games, and the shy interest in books and ideas that she was beginning to develop under his guidance’
‘he had a right to, in order that…
…he might exercise his loving pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow’
‘forty-eight hours later…
…the unbelievable had happened; everyone had refused the Mingotts’ invitation except the Beaufort’s and old Mr. Jackson and his sister […] “regretted they were unable to accept” without the mitigating plead of a “previous engagement” that ordinary courtesy prescribed’
‘The New York of Archer’s day…
… was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained’
‘The Van-de-Luydens, who stood above…
…all of them, had only faded into kind of super-terrestrial twilight, from which only two figures impressively emerged; those of Mr and Mrs Henry Van-der-Luyden’
