Jessie

“D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“...parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South