“But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.”
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
“Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”
― North and South
― North and South
“who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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