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Way to go, Eleanor!!

What a terrific examination of the virtues of loyalty and gratitude this novel is!!

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"Quiet!" said the archdeacon, still speaking with his brazen trumpet...🤣🤣

(...) When he reached the hotel, he rang the bell quietly, and with a palpitating heart, he almost longed to escape round the corner and delay the coming storm by a further walk round St. Paul's Churchyard. Still, he heard the slow creaking shoes of the old waiter approaching, and he stood his ground manfully.

I’m a little stressed, truth be told! 🫣

(...) he did not even wish to be spoken of as connected with it, but he did not the less value his privileges or think the loss of his own importance. Tom Towers probably considered himself the most powerful man in Europe, and so he walked from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

And so they greatly comforted each other - and in what sorrow will not such confidence give consolation! - and with a last expression of tender love, they parted and went comparatively happy to their rooms.