M. K. Hobson - Stanton Quotes

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Your frontier ethics are so rawboned, Miss Edwards, as rough-hewn and clumsy as the log cabin in which you must have been raised. Mrs. Stanton's face was like marble as she spoke; only her lips moved with ugly precision. Decency is striving for perfection in a world in which every other hoglike creature satisfies himself with sloppiness and indulgence. Decency is not in failing to murder someone. It's in murdering the right person, and sparing your family the indignity of getting caught.

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I wasn't sure if we were still engaged.
After everything we've been through? After true love conquered all? Emily shook her head. Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.
Being dead allowed me to learn the heart's deepest secret, he said. That sometimes love—even true love—isn't enough.
But it's a start, Emily said.

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Still feeling guilty, are we? I'd have thought you'd be over that by now.
I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience, Emily hissed. Ever hear of it?
They're out of fashion in New York, Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn't sound humorous.

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Senator Stanton? The man who's sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?

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Having engaged in vigorous and passionate debate while on their honeymoon trip from New York, they had arrived at the startling—and rather liberating—conclusion that the marriage itself was not at all necessary. Stanton no longer had a name to give, and taking Emily's would have involved all the tedium of authority and nonsense they'd hoped to avoid. So, in the end, he had returned to her the simple gold band she had worn for so long, sliding it onto the ring finger of her new right hand. And she had given him a soft slow kiss. They were the only vows required.

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Was your mother furious?
She'll get over it, Stanton said. Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there's still hope.

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I'm sorry Mr. Stanton, really I am. I didn't mean to miss it. Things...happened.
Oh, well. Things happened. How nice to have that cleared up.

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