'Ay! But that's at night,' said Mr Dombey, drawing his own chair closer to his son's, and laying his hand gently on his back; 'lit...
I've also become friends with a cool couple named Maria and Giulio, introduced to me by my friend Anne—an American painter who lived in Rome a few...
Luca is a tax accountant. An Italian tax accountant, which means that he is, in his own description, "an artist," because there are several ...
Mrs Chick was afraid to say limbs, after Mr Dombey's recent objection to bones, and therefore waited for a suggestion from Miss Tox, who, true to ...
'Who is Mrs Pipchin, Louisa?' asked Mr Dombey; aghast at this familiar introduction of a name he had never heard before. “皮普钦太太是谁，路易莎？”董贝先生问道，...
Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here, I admit it. 我承认，有时候我不了解自己在这里做什么。While I have come to Italy in order to experience pleasure, during the fir...
For me, though, a major obstacle in my pursuit of pleasure was my ingrained sense of Puritan guilt. Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is very Am...
'Oh! Exclusion itself!' said Miss Tox. “啊！不合条件的孩子它是不收的！”托克斯小姐说道。 There was something in this. Mrs Pipchin's husband having broken his hear...
The amount of pleasure this eating and speaking brought to me was inestimable, and yet so simple. I passed a few hours once in the middle of October t...
The Castle of this ogress and child-queller was in a steep by-street at Brighton; where the soil was more than usually chalky, flinty, and sterile, an...