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“Must play the game according to the rules,” said Duncannon.

"...Good hunting! It’s high time that sort of thing was
stopped."

«...There’s trouble enough in this world, and it’s a pleasure to see the other side, sometimes, for a change...»

I hate romance, but this prose makes me moved 💯 💯 💯

I can’t,” she said with a break in her voice. “I wish I could. I do wish I could, dear. But it’s the way I’m made, and I’d be no good to anyone if I broke through that. I know it. You’re not able to understand how I feel, Norris. You were brought up in a different atmosphere altogether, and you simply can’t see what I feel like about it....

She had tried to attach him more firmly by the subtler fibres of thoughts and feelings, and she had failed completely. Externals were all he cared for. And, inevitably, sooner or later, externals grow so familiar that they cease to yield the old thrill.