My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter. I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I'll come back to dig up, one day. I think of this name as buried. This name has an aura around it, like an amulet, some charm that's survived from an unimaginably distant past. I lie in my single bed at night, with my eyes closed, and the name floats there behind my eyes, not quite within reach, shining in the dark. It's
Tengo la certeza, querida tía, de que nunca he estado muy enamorada, pues si realmente hubiera experimentado esa pasión pura y elevada, ahora detestaría hasta el nombre de semejante individuo y le desearía toda suerte de males. Pero no sólo abrigo sentimientos cordiales hacia él, sino que miro con imparcialidad a Miss King, y no la odio sino que, por el contrario, la considero buena muchacha. No puede haber amor en todo eso. Mi desvelo ha sido real; y aunque si estuviera frenéticamente enamorada de él resultaría ahora más interesante para todos sus conocidos, no puedo decir que lamento mi relativa insignificancia. A veces la importancia se paga demasiado cara, Kitty y Lidia son más sensibles que yo en lo que a asuntos del corazón se refiere; son jóvenes y todavía no están hechas a la mortificante convicción de que los hombres atractivos han de tener algún recurso para vivir, como todos los demás.
Indeed, Mr. Bennet," said she, "it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her take her place in it!" "My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor." This
riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch. He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable