Charpter 8 The new year came in with Angus MacQueens annual Hogmanay party on Rudna Hunish, and still the move to the big house had not been accomplished. It wasnt something done overnight, between packing over seven years accumulation of everyday ar...
I hear were going to lose you, Father, said Miss Carmichaelnastily.He had never looked so remote, so devoid of human feeling ashe did that morning in his laceless alb and dull black chasuble withsilver cross. It was as if he attended only in body, wh...
Ive sold you, my Meggie, sold you for thirteen million pieces of silver. Sold me? A figure of speech. It doesnt matter. Come, sit closer to me. There may not be the chance for us to talk together again. While were in mourning for Auntie, you mean? Sh...
I know. She was perfectly well when I took her up the stairsabout three, but she must have died almost the moment she retired.Mrs. Smith found her at six this evening. By then shed been deadso long she was hideous; the room was shut up like an incuba...
I know. She was perfectly well when I took her up the stairsabout three, but she must have died almost the moment she retired.Mrs. Smith found her at six this evening. By then shed been deadso long she was hideous; the room was shut up like an incuba...
The last two sheets were covered by the same precise, almost minute writing. As mean and grudging as her soul. I, Mary Elizabeth Carson, being of sound mind and sound body, do hereby declare that this is my last will and testament, thereby rendering...
For some reason that hurt, hurt right down to his soul as Mary Carsons cruel taunts had not. No, Meggie, youre right. It isnt in me. He sprang up, smiling wryly. Would you think it strange if I said I wished it was? He put a hand to his head. No, I...
Outside it was not yet dawn, or the lightening before it. Darkness lay soft, thick and very hot over Drogheda. The revels were becoming extremely noisy; if the homestead had possessed next-door neighbors the police would have been called long since....
No. But belief doesn't rest on proof of existence, Mary. It rests on faith, and faith is the touchstone of the Church. Without faith, there is nothing. A very No. But belief doesn't rest on proof of existence, Mary. It rests on faith, and faith is th...
随着晚宴的进程，舞蹈越来越不受拘束，香槟酒和威士忌换成了兰姆酒和啤酒，晚宴的活动变得更象一次剪毛棚的舞会了。凌晨两点的时候，就连牧场工人和女工也完全看不出它和基里地区那...
She had money in steel, money in silver-lead-zinc, money in copper and gold, money in a hundred different things, mostly the sort of things that literally and metaphorically made money. Drogheda had long since ceased to be the main source of her inc...
有从比班-比班来的多米尼克奥罗克；从比尔-比尔来的霍里霍伯顿，以及其他几十位来宾。 他们之中大都是当地信奉天主教的新兴家族，能够以盎格鲁-撒克逊姓氏炫耀一番的家族是很少的。来...
She had got very fat of late, which didn't improve matters. But Paddy seemed to see nothing amiss; he strode forward to take his sister's hands, beaming. What a dear fellow he was, thought Father Ralph as he watched the little scene, half amused, hal...
（但是众所瞩目的地是梅吉。也许是因为基里的女裁缝依然对自己的少女时代萦怀难忘，并且对其他受到邀请的年轻女郎全都在悉尼定制自己的长袍恨恨不已，）她把自己的全部心思都投进梅...
she would continue. It seemed she had a lot to say, for her words were cramped, her lines very close together, and still she required a second sheet. At the end she read what she had put down, placed all the sheets together, folded them and slid them...
