Take Six Girls

no ill-effects from this introverted life among extrovert people.

things that ignited their imagination

auto-didacticism, was no real substitute for a proper education.

levity and seriousness are not incompatible,

threw me into a permanent rage for about twenty years’.

The reasons why people marry each other are not always straightforward, although the simplicity of physical attraction can make them seem so

which can put a vulnerable man in a constant position of seeking to please.

all formed an indestructible bedrock of security against the storms to come

while staring at him with her giant baleful eyes.

theatricality that blossomed when he acquired his inheritance.