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“He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.” Oh ho ho 😏

Oh, Gaskell…. how you wrote the mothers favoring the sons and tolerating the daughters.

“Where she had suffered so much.” Alas! and that was the way in which this eighteen months in Milton—to him so unspeakably precious, down to its very bitterness, which was worth all the rest of life’s sweetness—would be remembered.

Sometimes these classics take a while to kick in. I’m finally at the not able to put it down until my eyes can’t stay open stage.

« Mr Thornton avait l'habitude de commander aux autres, mais il sembla reconnaître immédiatement l'espèce d'autorité que Margaret prenait sur lui. Un peu avant qu'elle parût, il s'impatientait de perdre son temps, surtout un jour de marché, et maintenant il s'asseyait tranquillement, comme elle le lui avait ordonné. » walk em like a dog 🎶