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“He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.”
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvementsan asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a ...”
“You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the othe...”
“The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent conc...”
