Book: The stranger from the sea

But that's exactly what I do! I'm sure you just have to look at Edward with the right expression, and he will immediately forget me and run after you.

“We’ve been struggling with this for a long time,” Clowens admitted.

- My God, of course yes!

A good upbringing is what matters, looks, wit and finesse.

Demelza began to worry that the Clowens might be asked what kind of outfit they were wearing. Personally, she did not like to swim naked or in strange jackets and petticoats from fashion magazines, but she had her own outfit, reminiscent of a sleeveless Greek tunic, short and intercepted at the waist with a rope. She realized that such an outfit would cause the deepest shock among the ladies present.

Well done, thought Demelza. Well, my daughter likes to call a spade a spade.

But no matter how hard it was, Demelza would survive all but one. Now she could let down not only herself, but also her daughter.

- Someone better, I know. But at the time it was hard to imagine.

get hurt. It is the same with a high-pressure steam engine, in exactly the same way I would advise you to beware of fast currents near the shore, or to keep away from a recently calved cow, or not to go down into a mine that was closed many years ago, because the boards have already rotted. If, as you get older, you don’t understand what filial piety means, then you’ll be a useless father!

His father, of course, was not the most tactful man in the world. But if there was? Looks like Ross has been out of step with Jeremy for a long time. And don't all young people rebel against parental interference, even mere interest in their love relationships? And it's practically destroyed.

Only matters who you are.

But what does it all matter? Who can argue that your ancestors lived here before mine? Only matters who you are. Water think about it: whose pedigree is longer than the other? Aren't we all descended from Adam?
But society looks at it differently.
- So it looks at this all wrong! Name attach such importance! But all have names! Because Poldark own the property, and Boscawen own the property, and Dunstanville, and Trevanion, and others, Karna, Smiths, Carters, Martina and Infamy... And even painter, one day we all descended from a common ancestor. Someone was lucky or he was smarter, or had the ability to get up above the rest, and continued to climb up over the centuries, but that he didn't deserve more praise or honor.

People who boast ancestors as the roots. All their excellence - under the ground.

- I like to believe.
- And you do not believe?
- In its common sense, Yes. But women often capture feelings.
- As men.