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It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.
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But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
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If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.
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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.
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It seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)
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Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.
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I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!
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Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.
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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.
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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
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But now there was the new feeling — the last new feeling which we shall any of us experience in this world — that death was not only close at hand, but inevitable.
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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
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Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before...
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Born:
September 29, 1810
Died:
November 12, 1865
(aged 55)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson, often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era.
Known for:
North and South (1854)
Cranford (1851)
Mary Barton (1848)
Wives and Daughters (1864)
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