Chapter 9 quotes Flashcards
‘Madame Olenska held out…
…her hand as if to bid him goodbye’
‘It was certainly a strange…
…quarter to live in. Small dressmakers, bird-stuffers and “people who wrote” were her nearest neighbours’
‘packed in the family…
… landau they rolled from one tribal door-step to another, and Archer, when the afternoons rounds were over, parted from his betrothed with the feeling that he had been shown off like a wild animal, cunningly trapped’
‘His mind wondered away…
… to the question of what May’s drawing room would look like. He knew that Mr Welland, who was behaving “very handsomely” already had his eye on a newly built house in East thirty-nine street’
‘his only comfort…
…was to reflect that she would probably let him arrange the library as he pleased’
“Is New York such a…
… labyrinth? I thought it is so straight up and down - like fifth avenue”
“Everything may be labelled…
…but everybody is not”
‘his eye lit on a cluster…
…of yellow roses. He had never seen any as sun-golden before, and his first impulse was to send them to May instead of the lilies. But they did not look like her- there was something too rich, too strong in their fiery beauty’
