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If I only had the privileges of a man, I would order out Sir Percival's best horse instantly, and tear away on a night-gallop, eastward, to meet the rising sun - a long, hard, heavy, ceaseless gallop of hours and hours[…]Being, however, nothing but a woman, condemned to patience, propriety, and petticoats, for life, I must respect the housekeeper's opinions, and try to compose myself in some feeble and feminine way

‘Dear Laura’ ❤️‍🩹

“It seems so cold and so unfeeling to be looking at the future already in this cruelly composed way.
But what other way is possible, now that the time is drawing so near? Before another month is over our heads, she will be his Laura instead of mine! His Laura![…] as if writing of her marriage were like writing of her death.”

💔

“'Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace […] they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return? Let me go, Laura - I'm mad when I think of it!'”
Go off Marian!