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read in December 2019
Deborah said:
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Forget the television series. G. K. Chesterton, who wrote in the 1920s and 1930s, set out to create Sherlock Holmes' opposite number, "A mild-mannered, self-effacing character" (David Stuart Davies) whose London is not littered with gritty streets an
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“Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!”
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