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“It would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”

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“You drink the champagne, Robin. You take your allowance. … all pages for by the school, and yet you say all this money comes from blood. This does not bother you?”

“It should have been distressing. In truth, Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.”

“Because I don’t dream in Chinese” 😟

“Whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through afternoon tea without borrowed goods”