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"One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God; it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered; but no energy was found to express them:—'Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.'"

How are there still more than 100 pages left?! What is this novel?!

"I had not intended to love him: the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."

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They conversed of things I had never heard of;of nations and times past;of countries far away: of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at:they spoke of books:how many they had read! What stores of knowledge they possessed! But my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her and bade her read and construe a page of Virgil