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“When two members of a family or two intimate friends are separated, and one goes abroad and one remains at home, the return of the relative or friend who has been travelling always seems to place the relative or friend who has been staying at home at a painful disadvantage when the two first meet. The sudden encounter of the new thoughts and new habits eagerly gained in the one case, with the old thoughts and old habits passively preserved in the other, seems at first to part the sympathies of the most loving relatives and the fondest friends, and to set a sudden strangeness, unexpected by both and uncontrollable by both, between them on either side.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.”
― All Things Wise and Wonderful
― All Things Wise and Wonderful
Fans of the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series
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