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JOHN MF THORNTON 🥵🥵

"She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial and flickering and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling 'All are shadows! All are passing! All is past!"

"'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others;when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself—to life—to time—to eternity. A castaway lonely as Robinson Crusoe—a prisoner immured in a dungeon for life—nay, even a saint in Patmos has his endurance, his strength, his faith, best described by being spoken of as 'a man'"

"Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. Only, he knew what she was doing—or not doing—better than he knew the movements of any one else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not" (161).

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