杰拉尔德四十三岁时，健壮的体格，红润的脸庞使他看起来象从狩猎画中走出来的一个打猎的乡绅，尽管他得到了亲爱的塔拉，得到了郡里人的真诚和喜爱，可仍然不够。

• When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print, it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not enough.