And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment wh...
Here Miss Nipper made a horrible lowing, supposed to issue from a conscientious goblin of the bull species, impatient to discharge the severe duty of ...
I'd been attempting to convince myself that this was normal. All women must feel this way when they're trying to get pregnant, I'd decided...
Now, this was a first for me. And since this is the first time I have introduced that loaded word—GOD—into my book, and since this is a word which wil...
In Mr. Dombey's carriage, Dombey and Son, Miss Tox, Mrs. Chick, Richards, and Florence. In a little carriage following it, Susan Nipper and the ow...
Culturally, though not theologically, I'm a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great...
There was a toothache in everything. The wine was so bitter cold that it forced a little scream from Miss Tox, which she had great difficulty in turni...
Of course, I've had a lot of time to formulate my opinions about divinity since that night on the bathroom floor when I spoke to God directly for ...
Chapter 6 Paul's Second Deprivation 保罗第二次被剥夺权利Polly was beset by so many misgivings in the morning, that but for the incessant promptings of her b...
'Why, Polly!' cried Jemima. 'You! what a turn you have given me! who'd have thought it! come along in Polly! How well you do look to b...