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funny how i was going in order with the pictures on my computer...so i just got my computer back last night and this was the next picture in the line up. sometimes i feel like the entire universe is getting its revenge on me for not believing in god or something ;) sigh


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"She did not reply.  Looking insistently at him, at his face, his hands, she remembered the reconciliation of the day before and his passionate caresses in full detail.  The same caresses, she thought, that he has been lavishing, and is going to lavish, and wants to lavish on other women!

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Just why, when there was a tempest in her soul and she ( Read more... )

When he came to her in the evening they did not mention the quarrel, but they both felt it was only smoothed over, and not settled.

Today he had been away from home all day; she was so lonely and miserable feeling herself at odds with him that she wanted to forget everything, forgive him and be reconciled; she wanted to blame herself and vindicate ( Read more... )

"It was dusk already. She was alone, waiting for him to come back from some bachelor dinner; she was walking back and forth in his study (where there was less noise from the street), and turning over in her mind every detail of what they said to each other during a quarrel they had the day before. As she kept tracing to their source the well- ( Read more... )

"The irritation that divided them had no external cause, and every attempt to clear things up not only failed to eliminate it, but increased it. it was an inner irritation, which for her was due to the diminishing of his love, and for him to a regret that for her sake he had put himself in a distressful situation that she, instead of alleviating, ( Read more... )

"For anything to be undertaken in a household what is essential is either total discord between husband and wife or a loving harmony ( Read more... )

"And going over to the bed she put out the candle, stretched out and quieted down. Though he was suspicious of her stillness, as though she were holding her breath, and particularly of the expression of peculiar tenderness and excitement with which on coming out from behind the partition she had said "Nothing," he was so sleepy he dozed off at ( Read more... )

"He asked for supper and began telling her the details of the races; but by his tone and looks, which kept growing colder and colder, she saw that he didn't forgive her for her victory, that the feeling of obstinacy she had been struggling against was reasserting itself within him. He was colder to her than befoe, as though regretting his ( Read more... )

"Of course you wanted to stay and you stayed. You do whatever you please. But why'd you say that to me? Why?" she said, getting more and more agitated. "Is anyone contesting your rights? But you want to be in the right, so be in the right ( Read more... )