/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / 際際滷Share feed for 際際滷shows by User: lapinette https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-lapinette-48x48.jpg?cb=1523827272 Dreaming of Mercy Street. "The light-hearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction. In fact, being at odds with her father about anything at all, even an insignificant domestic detail, made her uncomfortable, and nothing that great literature might have done to modify her sensibilities, none of the lessons of practical criticism, could quite deliver her from obedience."