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Charlotte Brontë

Shirley

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    Be my companion through life; be my guide where I am ignorant; be my master where I am faulty; be my friend always!'

    "'So help me God, I will!'"
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    "Because you most wish to retain when you are most certain to lose."
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    "Forgive her? Naughty Robert! Was she in the wrong, or were you?"
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    the staircase quiet; so is the gallery.
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    What made her sing so? They never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality—so unlike a school-girl? Decidedly not. It was strange, it was unusual. What was strange must be wrong; what was unusual must be improper. Shirley was judged.
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted3 years ago
    supposing she had possessed a thoughtful, original mind, a love of knowledge, a wish for information, which she took an artless delight in receiving from your lips
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    I've felt myself tremble again.
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    The hearth is hot and ruddy; the cinders tinkle in the intense heat of their clear glow
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    admitted scarce a gleam of sky;
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted3 years ago
    but he was only awaiting her compliance—as calm as marble, and as cool.
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