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“She could not break free,- could she?— reaching with her arms, run to the roof's edge and into the Air, up-borne by Friendly Presences, as by Brilliance of Will, away across the Roof-slates and Fortifications, wheeling, beyond the range of all Weapons, beyond the need for any Obedience,...the Sun coming through, the River shining below, the great Warriors' River, keeping her course ever south-westward.“

“Adults hold Babies aloft , exclaiming, “The little Sausage!” And pretending to eat them. … The Children get Sweets from a Philadelphia English-shop, both adults being drawn into prolong’d Negotiations with their Juniors, as to who shall have which of.”

[responding to his employee wanting to be with their pregnant wife]
"Grow Titts," Mr. Barnes advises, "and learn to talk for an Hour without taking a Breath, and maybe as she grows more daz'd with her Preg-nancy, she'll mistake ye for another Woman, taking from it what comfort she may. Otherwise, 'tis the Company of Women she needs, not the Author of it all, thumping about."

or "In Bishop we say, 'Ye may take the Boy out of the Country,- '’
‘Yes yes, 'but never the Country out of the Boy. ‘
‘Naa, that's not it,— 'But tha'll never take the Girl out of the City,'s how we say it...?’
Mason is staring, shaking his head, ‘What...does that mean?’
‘Something about Women?’” (Stupid character limit)

Just reached part 2!
“‘Lud wishes to know,’ Whike relays at last, ‘Mr. Emerson's Cousin's Views, upon the Structure of the World.’
‘A Spheroid, the last I heard of it, Sir.’
‘Ahr Ahr ahr, 'ahr ahhrr!’
‘And I say, 'tis Flat.’ the Jesuit smoothly translates.”

“His smile suggests, Soon I shall be unable to hear anything you say, and then I'll have escap'd you at last. Among ye, but not of ye.”