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“Anne and Monica seemed to have grown into their simpler dresses; Hilda’s stuck out from her in every sense. They had damped down their personalities to a discreet glow, whereas Hilda wore hers like a headlight.”
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“Yes, Stephen, that is my window, the window of the room I sleep in when I’m staying at Anchorstone Hall. How patiently the centuries had waited for his coming! They were still alive, imprisoned in that proud building.”
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“It was something you found in new countries: people came to them to change who they were, not by self-improvement, but by creating a better or more interesting past.”
― Death in the Bush: An Amateur Sleuth Historical Mystery Set in the Wild New Zealand Bush
― Death in the Bush: An Amateur Sleuth Historical Mystery Set in the Wild New Zealand Bush
“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. And if ever she is a woman, who knows but we may meet somewhere? there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe.”
― Phantastes
― Phantastes
“What they need is to become children again. They have been forced too far forward by this suspicion of something beyond them.”
― Manservant and Maidservant
― Manservant and Maidservant
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