I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out againwhy I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other womans beforewhy I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life?
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Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright. William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Read more on Wikipedia →
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