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There used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle.
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Dodie Smith |
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80dd46d
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Mr. Dearly wasn't exactly handsome but he had the kind of face you don't get tired of.
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Dodie Smith |
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cd8efe7
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She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.
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Dodie Smith |
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9ed90d8
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The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
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youth
love
wisdom
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Dodie Smith |
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5a5e530
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I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're in love with the wrong person. Worse things. Things you never forgive yourself for.
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Dodie Smith |
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4581ecc
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At least we're companions in misfortune
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Dodie Smith |
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767aa77
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I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.
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Dodie Smith |
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As we drove I remembered how I had told myself I would make Simon happy. I didn't feel the same person. For I now knew that I had been stuffing myself up with a silly fairy tale, that I could never mean to him what Rose had meant. I think I knew it first as I watched his face while he listened to her singing, and then more and more, as he talked about the whole wretched business - not angrily or bitterly, but quietly and without ever saying..
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Dodie Smith |
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But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said. 'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it..
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i-capture-the-castle
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Dodie Smith |
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Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.
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Dodie Smith |
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4fb2f5c
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She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
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names
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Dodie Smith |
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he talked quite naturally while we ate -- about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one has the desire to describe beauty. "Perhaps it's an attempt to possess it," I said. "Or be possessed by it; perhaps that's the same thing, really. I suppose it's the complete identification with beauty one's seeking." The mist grew brighter and brighter."
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Dodie Smith |
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e2e681a
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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Dodie Smith |
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So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could never mean anything to him, such a chance would have seemed heaven on earth. And surely I could give him - a sort of contentment? That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
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Dodie Smith |
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c1329ba
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Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.
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Dodie Smith |
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Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman."
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humor
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Dodie Smith |
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21e0e7d
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Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice - where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.
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literature
pride-and-prejudice
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Dodie Smith |
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67c9a3d
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Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.
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Dodie Smith |
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Is that branch worrying you?" Simon asked her. "Would you like to change places? I hope you wouldn't because your hair looks so nice against the leaves"
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Dodie Smith |