The Glimpses of the MoonNick Lansing and Susy Branch agree to marry and spend a year or so living off their wealthy friends, but if either should find someone else who can advance them socially, they're free to dissolve the marriage. |
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Page 348 - The point is that we're married. . . . Married. . . . Doesn't it mean something to you, something — inexorable? It does to me. I didn't dream it would — in just that way. But all I can say is that I suppose the people who don't feel it aren't really married — and they'd better separate; much better.
Page 195 - ... now, he could detect a certain confusion, a desire to draw breath and catch up with her life, in the way she dawdled over the last buttons in the dimness of the porte-cochere, while her footman, outside, hung on her retarded signal. The second is from The Glimpses of the Moon, fifteen years later. But on the threshold a still more familiar figure met her: that of a lady in exaggerated pearls and sables, descending from an exaggerated motor, like the motors in magazine advertisements, the huge...
Page 41 - Are you going to be soon, then? I'll promise not to tell if you don't want me to. Going to be divorced? Of course not! What in the world made you think so?
Page 21 - Why shouldn't they marry; belong to each other openly and honourably, if for ever so short a time, and with the definite understanding that whenever either of them got the chance to do better he or she should be immediately released?
Page 243 - The whole of his past, and above all the tendency, on which he had once prided himself, to live in the present and take whatever chances it offered, now made it harder for him to act. He began to see that he had never, even in the closest relations of life, looked ahead of his immediate satisfaction. He had thought it rather fine to be able to give himself so intensely to the fullness of each moment instead of hurrying past it in pursuit of something more, or something else, in the manner of the...
Page 1 - THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON IT rose for them — their honey-moon — over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not Having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. "It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment...
Page 243 - Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others. The making of the substance called character was a process about as slow and arduous as the building of the Pyramids ; and the thing itself, like those awful edifices, was mainly useful to lodge one's...
Page 298 - ... mothering' on a large scale would never, she perceived, be her job. Rather it gave her, in odd ways, the sense of being herself mothered, of taking her first steps in the life of immaterial values which had begun to seem so much more substantial than any she had known
Page 47 - Ms talk, or in his attitude toward something or somebody, gave him a firmer outline and a steadier footing than the other marionettes in the dance. Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he "belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions.
Page 64 - But from the moment that she had become his property he had built up in himself a conception of her answering to some deepseated need of veneration. She was his, he had chosen her, she had taken her place in the long line of Lansing women who had been loved, honoured, and probably deceived, by bygone Lansing men.