It talks about family estrangement, it talks about people who are thinking about estranging themselves, people who have been estranged against their will.
In this atmosphere the Pension Bertolini and Windy Corner appeared equally crude, and Lucy saw that her London career would estrange her a little from all that she had loved in the past.
So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before, and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.
Translated to English, Charles' poem reads, My very gentle Valentine, since for me you were born too soon, and I for you was born too late, God forgives him who has estranged me from you for the whole year.
By the time Ray died in 2012, in terms of family at least, Ray was largely alone. He'd been divorced four times, and he'd been estranged from all three of his children. So what happened? What went wrong?
2012 年 Ray 去世时,至少就家庭而言,Ray 基本上是孤独一人。已经离婚四次,并且与三个孩子都疏远了。所以发生了什么事?什么地方出了错?
When Charity, in response to Harney's message, had gone to meet him at the Creston pool her heart had been so full of mortification and anger that his first words might easily have estranged her.