Peniston

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• And she is very poor--you know Mrs. Peniston cut her off with a small legacy, after giving her to understand that she was to have everything. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston, however, did not suffer from her niece's adaptability. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Miss Stepney, in the beginning, had not meant to bring up this point; but Mrs. Peniston had only her own incredulity to blame. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She sighed to think what her mother's fierce energies would have accomplished, had they been coupled with Mrs. Peniston's resources. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I don't know what you DO mean, said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Lily found Mrs. Peniston in a state of agitation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston delighted in discussing the minutest details of festivities in which she had not taken part. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I've had a dreadful lesson, and if you'll help me out this time I promise you-- Mrs. Peniston raised her hand warningly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She saw that at all costs she must keep Mrs. Peniston's favour till, as Mrs. Bart would have phrased it, she could stand on her own legs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Beyond this, Mrs. Peniston had not felt called upon to do anything for her charge: she had simply stood aside and let her take the field. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston again paused, but this time her scrutiny addressed itself, not to the furniture, but to her niece. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston examined her critically. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston thought the country lonely and trees damp, and cherished a vague fear of meeting a bull. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When I do come, it's not to look at Mrs. Peniston's furniture. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Well, said Mrs. Peniston, what I complain of is that you haven't told me yet what IS being said. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston wheeled round suddenly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It was agreeable to shock Mrs. Peniston, but not to shock her to the verge of anger. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston glanced at the clock, and swallowed a tablet of digitalis. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston's face clouded perceptibly, but did not express the astonishment her niece had expected. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She was silent, and Lily was forced to continue: I have been foolish---- No doubt you have: extremely foolish, Mrs. Peniston interposed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• For being hard up--and accepting attentions from men like Gus Trenor--and George Dorset---- Mrs. Peniston gave another cry. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Sometimes she thought it was because Mrs. Peniston had been too passive, and again she feared it was because she herself had not been passive enough. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Every one was surprised, but one and all concealed their surprise, lest Mrs. Peniston should be alarmed by it into reconsidering her decision. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Peniston disliked scenes, and her determination to avoid them had always led her to hold herself aloof from the details of Lily's life. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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