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“Poets may sing as they will of the joys of mutual love confessed. But there is an hour more exquisite yet in man and woman's life: the hour of love still untold. The hour of trembling hopes and uncertainties; of ecstasies hidden away in the inmost sanctuary of the being; of dreams so much more beautiful than reality; of thoughts that no words can clothe and music that no instrument can render. Hour of doubt which is to certainty as the dawn is to the day, as mystery is to revelation: as much more enthralling, as much more exquisite.”
― Agnes and Egerton Castle, The star dreamer, a romance

“Oh, cousin, don't you know, this is the enchanted garden, my garden! Ah, you did not know that, lord of Bindon! You deemed it was yours perhaps, though you never bethought yourself even of visiting it. But it was given to me by a fairy, years and years ago. And it is full of spells and dreams and magic!”
― Agnes and Egerton Castle, The star dreamer, a romance

“Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,”
― Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fencing: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century

“Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an “Alsatian ” master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye.”
― Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fencing: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century