no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
El bar bulle de animación, y las incesantes rondas de cócteles atraviesan flotando el jardín, y lo impregnan, y hasta el aire se vivifica con las conversaciones y las risas, y las insinuaciones sin importancia y las presentaciones olvidadas al instante, y los encuentros entusiastas entre mujeres que jamás han sabido el nombre de la otra.