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Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her..
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She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
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names
mothers
sons
funny-and-random
sobriquet
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I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Yet within a miles, Margaret knew of house after house, where she would for her own sake, and her mother for her Aunt Shaw's, would be welcomed, if they came to gladness, or even in peace of mind. 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.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty ..
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oranges
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By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what some one else has got to say.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.
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helstone
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Margaret could not help her looks; but the short curled upper lip, the round, massive up-turned chin, the manner of carrying her head, her movements, full of a soft feminine defiance, always gave strangers the impression of haughtiness. [...] She sat facing him and facing the light; her full beauty met his eye; her round white flexile throat rising out of the full, yet lithe figure; her lips, moving so slightly as she spoke, not breaking th..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as they have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly -- better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.
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doubt
trust
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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
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north-and-south
farewell
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
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thinking
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low--deep down.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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He asks me which of them two I liked best. Perhaps I liked Mr. Harry Carson once--I don't know--I've forgotten; but I loved James Wilson, that's now on trial, above what tongue can tell--above all else on earth put together; and I love him now better than ever, though he has never known a word of it till this minute... I never found out how dearly I loved another till one day, when James Wilson asked me to marry him, and I was very hard and..
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lovely
love
trial
profession
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
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nationalism
xenophobia
patriotism
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl;
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.
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love
poetic
north-and-south
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She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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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.
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bessy
north-and-south
margaret
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Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease."
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parenting-teens
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Nature felt no change, and was ever young.
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youth
helstone
maragaret
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth; the low whispering wind left its hiding-place among the clefts and hollows of the hills, and wandered among the rustling herbs and trees, waking the flower-buds to the life of another day.
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new-day
sunrise
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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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 b..
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calm
laziness
lazy-day
north-and-south
meditation
peace
meditative
lazy
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so?" "In the first place, as it is not many years since I myself was a draper's assistant, the mere circumstance of a grocer's assistant noticing any act does not alter the character of the act to me."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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No one loves me,-no one cares for me, but you, mother.' (...) She put her hands on his shoulders; she was a tall woman. She looked into his face; she made him look at her. 'Mother's love is given by God, John. It holds fast for ever and ever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke,-it changes with every wind. And she would not have you, my own lad, would not she?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Tell me what he was like as a baby." "Why, Margaret, you must not be hurt, but he was much prettier than you were. I remember, when I first saw you in Dixon's arms, I said, 'Dear, what an ugly little thing!"
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it. The philosopher dies sententiously--the pharisee ostentatiously--the simple-hearted humbly--the poor idiot blindly, as the sparrow falls to the ground; the philosopher and idiot, publican and pharisee, all eat after the same fashion--given an equally good digestion.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable--small, keen, bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, from liking our friends too well, or thinking of them too highly, but rather from an over-estimate of liking for and opinion of ; and that if we guard ourselves with sufficient scrupulousness of care from error in this direction, and can be content, and even happy to give more affection than we receive -- can make just comparison of c..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the hour.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril, --if no one should ever know of her truth or her falsehood to measure out their honour or contempt for her by, straight alone where she stood, in the presence of God, she prayed that she might have strength to speak and act the truth for evermore.
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strength
truth
personal-integrity
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