Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It was, as Mrs. Archer smilingly said to Mrs. Welland, a great event for a young couple to give their first big dinner. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mrs. Welland came first, on the arm of her eldest son. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
But Mr. Welland was terribly upset; he had a slight temperature every morning while we were waiting to hear what had been decided. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Aunt Welland put it in those very words when I tried. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It was a principle in the Welland family that people's days and hours should be what Mrs. Welland called provided for. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
You're engaged to May Welland; and I'm married. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It was just like Ellen, Mrs. Welland's tired voice implied, to place the family in such a dilemma. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
And having arrived at this Spartan decision Mr. Welland firmly took up his fork. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness? 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
As he went out into the wintry night, New York again became vast and imminent, and May Welland the loveliest woman in it. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
May Welland was just coming out of the tent. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Good gracious-- Mr. Welland gasped, as if a second reading had been necessary to bring the monstrous absurdity of the thing home to him. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mr. Welland's brow remained clouded, and it was evident that his perturbed imagination had fastened at once on this last remark. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mrs. Welland sighed resignedly, and May rose from her seat and went to gather up some newspapers that had been scattered on the floor. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mr. Welland was a mild and silent man, with no opinions but with many habits. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It was a cause of constant distress to Mrs. Welland that her son-in-law showed so little foresight in planning his days. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Poor Amy Sillerton--you never can tell what her husband will do next, Mrs. Welland sighed. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mrs. Welland enquired as she shook hands with her future son-in-law. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
After all, Mamma, he won't have SEEN them, her daughter suggested; and Mrs. Welland sighed: Ah, no; thank heaven he's safe in bed. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
But just at first don't let go of your old friends' hands: I mean the older women, your Granny Mingott, Mrs. Welland, Mrs. van der Luyden. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
He had meant to seize the opportunity of his private talk with Mrs. Welland to urge her to advance the date of his marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Archer made no comment on this, and Mrs. Welland continued: But we do most thoroughly appreciate your persuading Ellen to give up the idea. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Far down the inverted telescope he saw the faint white figure of May Welland--in New York. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Well--it's queer to have brought Miss Welland, anyhow, some one said in a low tone, with a side-glance at Archer. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
May Welland rose also; as they faced each other she seemed to grow in womanly stature and dignity. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.