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Jem Wilson said nothing, but loved on and on, ever more fondly; he hoped against hope; he would not give up, for it seemed like giving up life to give up thought of Mary. He did not dare to look to any end of all this; the present, so that he saw her, touched the hem of her garment, was enough. Surely, in time, such deep love would beget love.
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 80, Chapter V, Penguin Classics
— Jan 15, 2023 06:47PM
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 80, Chapter V, Penguin Classics
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Only a hundred or so pages left and I'm still tiptoeing my way through this book because i fear for all their lives.
I keep begging God to save them, i forget that the god of this book is Gaskell. Tsk, tsk.
— Jan 24, 2023 03:09AM
I keep begging God to save them, i forget that the god of this book is Gaskell. Tsk, tsk.
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As if one trouble is not enough, you let them go down like dominoes.
Why should you be so cruel, Mrs. Gaskell?
— Jan 20, 2023 11:44PM
Why should you be so cruel, Mrs. Gaskell?
Ij
is on page 265 of 487
Are you another Thomas Hardy that you should embitter our hearts with injustice and death, Mrs. Gaskell?
I need a Charles Dickens right now.
That, in modern times, can be translated as 'i need a drink'
— Jan 20, 2023 01:14AM
I need a Charles Dickens right now.
That, in modern times, can be translated as 'i need a drink'
Ij
is on page 102 of 487
Errands of mercy — errands of sin — did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound?
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 102, Chapter VI, Penguin Classics
— Jan 15, 2023 07:50PM
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 102, Chapter VI, Penguin Classics
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He thought they all looked joyous, and he was angry with them. But he could not, you cannot, read the lot of those who daily pass you by in the street. How do you know the wild romances of their lives; the trials, the temptations they are even now enduring, resisting, sinking under?
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 101, Chapter VI, Penguin Classics
— Jan 15, 2023 07:47PM
- Mary Barton, E. Gaskell, page 101, Chapter VI, Penguin Classics
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"People admire talent and talk about their admiration. But thet value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it."
— Jan 15, 2023 06:38PM
Ij
is on page 80 of 487
"Margaret had the great charm of possessing good strong common sense, and do you not perceive how involuntary this is valued? It is so pleasant to have a friend who possesses the power of setting a difficult question in a clear light; whose judgement can tell which is best to be done; and who is convinced of what is the 'wisest, best', that in consideration of the end, all difficulties in the way diminish.
— Jan 15, 2023 06:36PM
