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There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.
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The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest.
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Stephanie Barron |
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Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?
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morals
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Stephanie Barron |
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There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind.
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Stephanie Barron |
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It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.
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Stephanie Barron |
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the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.
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jane-austen
mystery
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Stephanie Barron |
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life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.
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Stephanie Barron |
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A great deal of hurt has been done in the name of honesty,
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Stephanie Barron |
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Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?
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Stephanie Barron |
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The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments in Nature's company may suffice to renew one's health and mental aspect.
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Stephanie Barron |
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We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.
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Stephanie Barron |
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The chief rule of British Society: Sleep where you like, but be in your own bed by morning.
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Stephanie Barron |
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The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.
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Stephanie Barron |
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This is fine living, indeed," Neddie cried. "Poor Collingforth is charged with murder, and you can do nothing but consume a quantity of cake!" I closed my book and surveyed him narrowly. "Lizzy had informed me the you are invariably peevish when suffering the pangs of hunger. Call for some more cake, I beg, and tell me of the inquest."
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Stephanie Barron |
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So that's the way of it, is it." Mr. Taylor rejoined, not to be deterred. " You intend to tell us nothing?" "The ways of Justice, like the secrets of the marriage bed, are best enshrouded in silence," Neddie intoned. Mr. Taylor merely snorted at this, while Lizzy laid a hand caressingly on my brother's shoulder. "Poor lamb," she crooned, "you shall be led to the slaughter. I give you a quarter-hour, my dear, at the hands of your dearest -..
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Stephanie Barron |
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I was treated once more to a novelist's valuable lesson, however--in apprehending that one's perception of plot and character are influenced entirely by one's own experience. To hear Mary tell the story of our Christmas at The Vyne, one would have thought that she was hounded by violence from first to last--perceived more than anybody of the nature of the probable murderer--and barely escaped with her life. It was a lesson in writerly humil..
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Stephanie Barron |
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I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.
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Stephanie Barron |
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She could not give him power over her. She gave no man that. "I don't deal in bonds, sir," she called back over her shoulder as she fled for the stables. "They're too much like chains." --
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Stephanie Barron |
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Men will find a reason to kill each other anywhere,
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Stephanie Barron |