Sublime

“You’re a good man,” she said. “I’ve never known anyone like you.”

María Cristina, nacida en 1915, pertenecía a una de las llamadas «catorce familias» de El Salvador; había estudiado en los Estados Unidos, en el Notre Dame de Namur College, en Belmont, California, hablaba inglés y francés, y habría seguido una carrera universitaria si se lo hubieran permitido, pero no la dejaron, pues, según los prejuicios de la é

“You’re a delight to me, Lillian Bowman,” he whispered. “Everything about you.”

James and Isabella led the way; and so well satisfied was the latter with her lot, so contentedly was she endeavouring to ensure a pleasant walk to him who brought the double recommendation of being her brother’s friend, and her friend’s brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending you

She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment. He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the country on fire: hence he liked the prospect of a wife to whom he could say, ‘What shall we do?’ about thi

“Lord Petre must have inherited a vast fortune.” “I believe that he has,” Jervas replied. “And yet he is unattached—uncommonly selfish of him. Not a woman in London will spare the rest of us a glance until Lord Petre has been claimed.”