Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
You know you can always find a home with Gerty till you are independent again. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
I hate my room at Aunt Julia's--so I came here---- She stirred suddenly, broke from her apathy, and clung to Gerty in a fresh burst of fear. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
My dear Gerty, I always understand how people can spend much more money--never how they can spend any less! 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
And again: Be good to her, Gerty, won't you? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty shook her head, mutely unconvinced. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty's colour rose, and her blush was for a moment her only answer. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
For she could not go to Gerty's without risk of meeting Selden; and to meet him now would be pure pain. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Ah, she said, I envy Gerty that power she has of dressing up with romance all our ugly and prosaic arrangements! 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
The door closed on Gerty, and he stood alone with the motionless sleeper on the bed. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty, be honest: this will was made only six weeks ago. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Carry had been a good friend to her in difficult days, and perhaps only a friendship like Gerty's could be proof against such an increasing strain. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She remembered Gerty's words: I know him--he will help you; and her mind clung to them as a sick person might cling to a healing relic. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
To Gerty Farish's hopeful spirit a solution appeared to have been reached when she remembered how beautifully Lily could trim hats. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty, I know, is eager to make such an arrangement, and would be quite happy in it---- But I should not, Miss Bart interposed. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Her voice had a dangerous edge, and Gerty noticed that her hand shook as she held it out to receive the second cup. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
But she recurred to Gerty's words and held fast to them. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She laid both hands on Gerty's shoulders, with a smile that was like sunrise on a sea strewn with wreckage. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
For the first time in her life she found herself utterly alone except for Gerty Farish. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty remained silent, and she continued: I stayed on to see what would happen. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It was at this point, perhaps, that a joy just trying its wings in Gerty's heart dropped to earth and lay still. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
She turned back, fixing her plaintive eyes on Gerty. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Gerty opened the door, and Selden went in after her. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It was not so late--Gerty might still be waking. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.