was there any point in being alive without helping one another?
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
His mother, at the age of sixteen, had fallen pregnant while working as a domestic for Mrs Wilson, the Protestant widow who lived in the big house a few miles outside of town.
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
Now, he lived in the town with his wife, Eileen, and their five daughters.
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
Some nights, Furlong lay there with Eileen, going over small things like these.
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
He was touching forty but didn’t feel himself to be getting anywhere or making any kind of headway and could not but sometimes wonder what the days were for.
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
Did she ever imagine how her life would be if she had married another?
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
The blow was cheap but it was the first he’d heard from her, in all their years together.
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?
Ranti Fadilahцитирует9 месяцев назад
Whatever suffering he was now to meet was a long way from what the girl at his side had already endured, and might yet surpass.
dariabutdariaцитируетв прошлом году
Sometimes Furlong, seeing the girls going through the small things which needed to be done – genuflecting in the chapel or thanking a shop-keeper for the change – felt a deep, private joy that these children were his own.