The child was very big, not a wearish little thing as you might have expected from her mother’s stature, and very fair of skin. You would have thought she made bright all the corner of the room in which she lay. She slept (tiny was the
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Aeneas and Briseis were perfectly beautiful and well-behaved as infants. They slept peacefully all through the night from the very beginning and always had a smile or a giggle for anyone who came to see them.
“The fox condemns the trap, not himself.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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