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264d794 Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you. stereotypes prejudice northerners regions superiority north south north-and-south southerners society culture perceptions Susan Sontag
7d4b4f9 Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
a773d08 Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion. passion north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
5e5f98d There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. seasons winter time beauty death garden gardens north-and-south outside fall dusk Elizabeth Gaskell
cca308a But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
4e45fe4 Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
df52662 It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. margaret-hale north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
a9a50ca Come poor little heart! be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate. north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
92f50bb If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends north-and-south farewell Elizabeth Gaskell
9ac65b6 She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace. love poetic north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
c64699d I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there. bessy north-and-south margaret Elizabeth Gaskell
7be99a6 The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunbeam: - it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future. calm laziness lazy-day north-and-south meditation peace meditative lazy Elizabeth Gaskell
021c0fc Keske sana ne kadar yalniz oldugumu anlatabilsem. Burasinin ne kadar soguk ve sert oldugunu. Her yerde bir celiski ve cefa var. Tanri'nin bu yeri unuttugunu dusunuyorum. Sanirim cehennemi gordum ve o beyaz, cehennem sevgili Edith, kar beyazi... north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell North And South
952f9b6 He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ... sadness resiliance north-and-south pride Elizabeth Gaskell
f10553f Bu en kotu zamanda, onu 'benim' diye cagirma umudum olmasa bile Margaret'in buyuyup kendisi oldugu yeri gormek istedim... north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
0b24799 Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence. history funny louis-xiv reverence north-and-south respect pride france Elizabeth Gaskell
375f331 The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him. determination resilience north-and-south resistance Elizabeth Gaskell
a6cd15d He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind--a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre. passion north-and-south Elizabeth Gaskell
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