The Good Soldier — Vocabulary
Ford Madox Ford
(Edited)

The last words conveyed nothing to Nancy—nothing real, that is to say.†6 more

At any rate, he would have had fewer chances of ruining and of remorse.†10 more

I mention these last three because my recollection of that night is only the sort of pinkish effulgence from the electric-lamps in the hotel lounge.†7 more

IV So began those nine years of uninterrupted tranquillity.†9 more

They could not possibly keep up Branshaw Manor at that rate after the money had gone to the Grand Duke's mistress.†8 more

Do you understand that, whilst she was Edward's mistress, she was perpetually trying to reunite him to his wife?†5 more

She treated me so very well—with such tact—that, if I ever thought of it afterwards I put it down to her deep affection for me.†4 more

Like one of those sinister jokes that Providence plays upon one.3 more

And they themselves steadily deteriorated.†5 more

She opened the door of Ashburnham's room quite ostentatiously, so that Florence should hear her address Edward in terms of intimacy and liking.†3 more

And, from that moment, I determined with all the obstinacy of a possibly weak nature, if not to make her mine, at least to marry her.†4 more

So it had looked very well—the benevolent, wealthy couple of good people, acting as saviours to the poor, dark-eyed, dying young thing.†2 more

You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.†3 more

So when she got back to Branshaw she started, after less than a month, to worry him about the minutest items of his expenditure.4 more

One remembers points that one has forgotten and one explains them all the more minutely since one recognizes that one has forgotten to mention them in their proper places and that one may have given, by omitting them, a false impression.4 more

I suppose that they are reasonable words; it must be extraordinarily reasonable for her, if she can say that she believes in an Omnipotent Deity.†3 more

Is all this digression or isn't it digression?†2 more

And she just sat absolutely deaf to the remonstrances of the head waiter with his face like a grey ram's.†4 more

You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.†2 more

In such circumstances of clamour, of outcry, of the crash of many people running together, of the professional reticence of such people as hotel-keepers, the traditional reticence of such "good people" as the Ashburnhams—in such circumstances it is some little material object, always, that catches the eye and that appeals to the imagination.†2 more