„Their mistress herself was reclining very sweetly and with perfect composure on an armrest when suddenly she arose, took the censer from beneath a large...

Kapitel „The Pink“

„He had a very strange way of being a father.“

„She was wearing the white, and the sharp sweep of her hair, thinning modestly as it did towards the ends, so heightened her fondly remembered...

„Her party came in three carriages, and having Ukon with them ensured they did not look like rustics.“

„‚Your assisting her in one way and another can help redeem the fault of her mother’s dead.'“

„(…) and although he did not exactly lose his heart to her, he was sufficiently stirred to rustle his robes.“

„‚Oh. come now!‘ they whispered among themselves. ‚He is as much of a lover as ever – it seems to be his great flaw. He...