 And you're all alike,' he exclaimed, 'every one of you. You come among us from a country we don't know, and can't imagine, a country you care for so little that before you've been a day in ours you've forgotten the very house you were born in - if it...  Scribner's Magazine - Page 629edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Edith Wharton - 1913 - 610 pages
...the rest of my [544] life, when all you've got to do is to hold out your hand and have two million francs drop into it!" Her husband stood looking at...He stopped again, his white face and drawn nostrils [545] giving him so much the look of an extremely distinguished actor in a fine part that, in spite... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1913 - 612 pages
...the rest of my [544] life, when all you've got to do is to hold out your hand and have two million francs drop into it!" Her husband stood looking at...things that make life decent and honourable for us!" giving him so much the look of an extremely distinguished actor in a fine part that, in spite of the... | |
 | E Wharton - 1914 - 608 pages
...people are as proud of changing as we are of holding to what we have — and we're fools enough to i imagine that because you copy our ways and pick up...silence might have been the deliberate pause for a riplique. Undine kept him waiting long enough to give the effect of having lost her cue — then she... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1914 - 606 pages
...imagine that because you copy our ways and pick up our slang you understand anything about the thing? that make life decent and honourable for us!" He stopped again, his white face and drawn nostrils [545] giving him so much the look of an extremely distinguished actor in a fine part that, in spite... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1913 - 356 pages
...this for the rest of my life, when all you've got to do is to hold out your hand and have two million francs drop into it!' Her husband stood looking at...silence might have been the deliberate pause for a rfplique. Undine kept him waiting long enough to give the effect of having lost her cue - then she... | |
 | Candace Waid - 1991 - 260 pages
...language and not knowing what we mean; wanting the things we want, and not knowing why we want them . . . and we're fools enough to imagine that because you...things that make life decent and honourable for us!" (545). Undine may literally be an alien and speak a foreign language in France, but de Chelles realizes... | |
 | Paul Hollander - 604 pages
...proud of changing as we are of holding to what we have — we're fools enough to imagine that . . . you understand anything about the things that make life decent and honourable for us! [Wharton 1987:485] My own impressions of and objections to some of these more intangible aspects of... | |
 | Susan Goodman - 2003 - 234 pages
...Day's Journey into Night "You come among us speaking our language and not knowing what we mean . . . we're fools enough to imagine that because you copy...things that make life decent and honourable for us!" EDITH WHARTON, The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton ( 1 862- 1 93 7) was an avid reader of histories... | |
 | Richard Guy Wilson - 2008 - 212 pages
...holding to what we have — and we're fools enough to imagtne that because you copy our ways and ptck up our slang you understand anything about the things that make life decent and honorable for us!" (Edith Wharton, The Custom oj the Country [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913],... | |
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