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“If you knew how I cared for Alice—how I still care for her. I could kiss the ground she walks upon. I would give anything—my life any day—if only she would look for two minutes as if she liked me a little—as if she didn't utterly despise me”

“How does one know that anything is true in this world?" she replied evasively; "because one does, because one feels it to be true, I suppose."

“She was, beyond all comparison, the most graceful and exquisite woman I have ever seen, but with a grace and an exquisiteness that had
nothing to do with any preconceived notion or previous experience of what goes by these names: grace and exquisiteness recognised at once as perfect, but which were seen in her for the first, and probably, I do believe, for the last time.”

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