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“Margaret was often left alone. Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here. She was getting surfeited of the eventless ease in which no struggle or endeavour was required. She was afraid lest she should even become sleepily deadened into forgetfulness of anything beyond the life which was lapping her round with luxury.”

Jealousy does not look well on mr Thornton

her absent father ran strangely in Margaret's head this night.She almost blamed herself for having felt her solitude(and consequently his absence) as a relief; but these two days had set her up afresh, with new strength and brighter hope.Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures.The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly

“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.