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“(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.”
“I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.”
“Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?”
“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.”
“I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are ...”
“I had first thought of Milly's absurdities, to which, in description, I cannot do justice, simply because so many details have, by distance of time, escaped my recollection. But her ways and her ta...”
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak noth...”
“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so longthe care of caresthe only one, as it seemed to you, between yo...”
“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-wi...”
