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“The Force of Circumstance”

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“All’s fair in love and war”

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04.12.2007 в 11:17

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“The Force of Circumstance”

читать дальшеIn the story “The Force of Circumstance” W. Somerset Maugham tells us about different circumstances of family life and about the way how the characters got through them.
Doris and Guy got acquainted during their holidays. At the end of the leave they got married and returned in to Sembulu where Guy lived and worked. They were quite happy until a Malay woman didn’t appear appeared in their life. She was hanging about the territory (я бы это убрала, и так понятно, но если хочешь, оставь) near the house; she made scenes to attract Doris’s attention. The servants turned out this woman and even beat her. Doris could not understand why they offended a the poor Malay woman. But after a conversation with Guy she realized understood everything. This woman was his ex-wife and they had three children who were half-castes. And Guy didn’t tell about this fact, because he had a fear to loose Doris. She could not understand that every white man lived in such a way there (like that я б сказала). He told her only because the Malay woman began to blackmail him. Doris was shocked and after half a year meditations she left her husband and returned home. After her departure Guy didn’t have (lost) any an aim in his life and he allowed the Malay woman to come back with their children.

Я правила только грамматику, хоть выбор слов и стиль оставляют сильно желать.

04.12.2007 в 11:23

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“All’s fair in love and war”

It was a weekend. Late autumn came. Ann and Mark decided to go to the country, because it was an only place where nobody troubled (disturbed) them. The girl was pleased as a Punch, because she tricked her young sister who blackmailed her. Ann laughed harshly at Diana who was sure that her sister would be with Peter.
Their hearts gave a sudden thud and a common sense left them when they stayed alone. Mark threw the blanket and sat down, Ann snuggled up to him and they forgot about time, they could not stop their waffle. And only when a cold shiver gave them gooseflesh the lovers remembered about a stove. They were wise after the event that they had to heat the house at the beginning, but anyway even the fact that the girl caught cold didn’t spoil their little holiday together.
At the end they got the determination to confess to their affair. They imagined that Ann’s sister would be struck dumb.

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