Luncheon was a successful meal, the mushrooms which he himself had picked in the mushroom house, his chosen strawberries, and another bottle of the Steinberg cabinet filled him with a certain aromatic spirituality, and a conviction that he would have a touch of eczema to-morrow.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
she turned her back from her memories and her desires. During this winter there were the two affairs of Mr. Toms and Caroline. Maggie carried out her resolve of calling on Mr. She did it one dark afternoon a few days before Christmas, moved, it must be confessed, partly by a sense of exasperation with Grace. Grace had been that day quite especially tiresome. She had a cold, and a new evening dress had cost twice as much as it ought to have done. Mitch had broken into eczema, and Mrs.英文原著 · 《The Captives》