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“Here it comes,’ Morris said, his eyes on the nine gun-mouths studding the Seville’s starboard side. ‘Dear sweet Christ, I wish I had lived a better life...”
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“It is the happiest moment of my life,” the artist said. “I have always wanted to break the law, but a way has never been vouchsafed me. And now to do it in the company of a policeman is joy that I did not anticipate my life would ever provide.”
― The Man in the Queue
― The Man in the Queue
“To say that Lady Wilmington was butterfly-like is to use a simile so jaded that one rebels. And yet no other word so conveys her ineffectuality, her prettiness, her air of busy futility, her restlessness, her fragility.”
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“Sara said with a grimace. “I say a month, and when I say a thing I mean it.”
“Lord, what a bullied life I’m in for!” he said, and since there was no one in sight, kissed her.”
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“Lord, what a bullied life I’m in for!” he said, and since there was no one in sight, kissed her.”
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“So he took her to Rye; and was pleased and touched by her joy in it. To Chitterne its artificiality, its air of preciousness and preservation was “amusing”, but to Sara it was a fairy tale. From the moment that she saw it, a rosy hill above the green levels of the marsh, Chitterne was aware that he had a rival; it had been a mistake to take her there. She explored every corner of the town, ecstatic and indefatigable, and Chitterne accompanied her, a little jealous of Rye but gloating secretly over the brightness of Sara’s eyes, her happiness and self-forgetfulness.”
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