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When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
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James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.
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Mr. Underwood spoke in a tone between asking and granting a favor.
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When clever people take to being silly, they can be sillier than anyone else.
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The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled...
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I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
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General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
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Large families are apt to get into a state of savage exclusiveness.
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That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.
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If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.
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Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Born:
August 11, 1823
Died:
May 24, 1901
(aged 77)
Bio:
Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.
Known for:
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853)
The daisy chain, or, Aspirations (1856)
A Book of Golden Deeds (1864)
The Little Duke (1854)
The Dove In The Eagle's Nest (1866)
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