Elizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted April

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The very way Mrs. Arbuthnot parted her hair suggested a great calm that could only proceed from wisdom.

Elizabeth von Arnim
She usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Mr. Wilkins, a solicitor, encouraged thrift, except that branch of it which got into his food. He did not call that thrift, he called it bad housekeeping.

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She was not reading. Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now — over and over again they said the same things, and nothing was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

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Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Elizabeth von Arnim
He was the man for trouble. He regretted, of course, that people should get into it, but being in he was their man.

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He produced the impression of keeping copies of everything he said.

Elizabeth von Arnim
If you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

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She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Elizabeth von Arnim