Once the grotesqueness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it was the safest in which Dorset could find himself. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
His betrothed looked shocked at the metaphor, and George Dorset exclaimed with a sardonic growl: Poor devil! 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Dorset greeted the sally with delight. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
No--I heard her tell Bertha Dorset that she had six months to put in while her husband was taking the cure in the Engadine. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Mrs. Dorset, examining her between lowered lids, met this with the immediate query: Who told you that? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It's one thing to get Bertha Dorset into line--but what you want is to keep her there. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It was in Bertha's interest, certainly, that she had despatched Dorset to consult with Lawrence Selden. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
But to Miss Bart's relief the repetition of her promise was cut short by the opening of the box door to admit George Dorset. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Mrs. Dorset might startle or dazzle him, but she had neither the skill nor the patience to effect his capture. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
George Dorset's talk did not interfere with the range of his neighbour's thoughts. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Was it to see herself or Bertha Dorset? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Was it possible, after all, that he had come for Bertha Dorset? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She was sufficiently familiar with Mrs. Dorset's habits to know that she could always be found at home after five. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
And Mrs. Dorset leaned back against her travelling cushions with a smile which made Lily wish there had been no vacant seat beside her own. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Mrs. Dorset, for reasons we needn't go into, did you a beastly bad turn last spring. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Bertha Dorset's letters were nothing to her--they might go where the current of chance carried them! 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
They grew to sudden acuteness as she caught sight of George Dorset descending the steps of the Hotel de Paris and making for her across the square. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Dorset had apparently shown marked interest in the girl, and this interest might be used to cruel advantage in his wife's struggle for rehabilitation. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
But there was another change, perceptible only to Lily; and that was that Dorset now avoided her almost as pointedly as his wife. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
If Selden had come at Mrs. Dorset's call, it was at her own that he would stay. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
And why should Bertha Dorset have turned into an enemy at the very moment when she so obviously needed the support of her sex? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
But Mrs. Dorset told Molly about it herself: she said the villa was full of the most exquisite things and she was really sorry to leave. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It was Ned Silverton's idea--but poor Dorset and Lily Bart must have been horribly bored. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Do look at Mrs. George Dorset's pearls--I suppose the smallest of them would pay the rent of our Girls' Club for a year. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.