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'Are you positive you aren't a man?' he would ask anxiously, and she would echo, 'Can it be possible you're not a woman?' and then they must put it to the proof without further ado. (p.179)

Her modesty as to her writing, her vanity as to her person, her fears for her safety all seem to hint that what was said a short time ago about there being no change in Orlando the man and Orlando the woman, was ceasing to be altogether true. (p.131)

It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality, so that Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift -- plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion -- had only to open a book for the whole vast accumulation to turn to mist. (p.53)

For the philosopher is right that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy; and he goes one to opine that one is twin fellow to the other; and draws from this the conclusion that all extremes of feeling are allied to madness;... (p. 31)