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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.

“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.