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“Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”
“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
“. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.”
“The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They dont know what it...”
“. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.”
“Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.”
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.""I sometimes think I should have been a good...”
