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But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. But once i' the' Union, his interests are taken care on better nor he could do it for himsel', or by himsel', for that matter. It's the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him. Government takes care o' fools and madmen; and if any man is inclined to do himsel' or his neighbour a hurt, it..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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053c0ca
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Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young. All the love nowadays is just silly fancy, and sentimental romance, as far as I can see.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as happy as letters could be -- at least those early letters were. There was in them a vivid and intense sense of the present time, which seemed so strong and full, as if it could never pass away, and as if the warm, living hearts that so expressed themselves could never die, and be as nothing to the sunny earth. I..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I just wished to know if you mean to marry the girl. Spite of what you said of her lightness, I ha' known her long enough to be sure she'll make a noble wife for any one, let him be what he may; and I mean to stand by her like a brother; and if you mean rightly, you'll not think the worse on me for what I've now said; and if--but no, I'll not say what I'll do to the man who wrongs a hair of her head. He shall rue it to the longest day he li..
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jem
love
protectiveness
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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MRS. BROWNING.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is so in the way in the house!"
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they said of you: "careful observer," "strong nervous English," "rising philosopher." Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the le..
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parenthood
son
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month;--but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books. Now the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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952f9b6
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He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...
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north-and-south
pride
resiliance
sadness
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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2977ce7
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though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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97a1e1d
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a watched pot never boils.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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4677c83
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Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work on earth.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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72c4c20
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There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in some of old took the form of Prophecy. To those who have large capability of loving and suffering, united with great power of firm endurance, there comes a time in their woe, when they are lifted out of the contemplation of their individual case into a searching inquiry into the nature of their cala..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Sometimes when I've thought o' my life, and the little pleasure I've had in it, I've believed that, maybe, I was one of those doomed to die by the falling of a star from heaven.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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618d6e7
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Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Indeed! I am truly glad to hear it. I always always fond of Osborne; and, do you know, I never really took to Roger; I respected him and all that, of course. But to compare him with Mr. Henderson! Mr. Henderson is so handsome and well-bred, and gets all his gloves from Houbigant!
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Bu en kotu zamanda, onu 'benim' diye cagirma umudum olmasa bile Margaret'in buyuyup kendisi oldugu yeri gormek istedim...
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north-and-south
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and soul, into a conversation with Mr Hale.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and English chapels. Her walks too were solitary, and principally taken in the allee defendue, where she was secure from intrusion. This solitude was a perilous luxury to one of her temperament; so liable as she was to morbid and acute mental suffering.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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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.
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france
funny
history
louis-xiv
north-and-south
pride
respect
reverence
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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575880d
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North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.
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diversity
friendship
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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bf27d84
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The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his mother sat. They had told her of her son's acquittal, and now she was laughing, and crying, and talking, and giving way to all those feelings which she had restrained with such effort during the last few days. They brought her son to her, and she threw herself upon his neck, weeping there. He returned her embr..
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love
realization
relief
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And as for your hair!it's worse than ever.Can't you drench it in water to take those untidy twists and twirls out of it?' 'It only makes it curl more and more whey it gets dry,' said Molly, sudden tears coming into her eyes as a recollection came before her like a picture seen long ago and forgotten for years-a young mother washing and dressing her little girl; placing the half-naked darling on her knee, and twining the wet rings of dark ha..
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mother-s-love
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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put in yo'r pipe, and smoke it,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12"
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rich-people
unfairness
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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636fd84
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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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She must just submit, like many another, to be misunderstood;
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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a663e71
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I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened together." "But I do mind you calling me a donkey," he replied."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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You may well smile, my lass; many a one would smile to have such a bonny face.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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b495a4e
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I cannot stand objections. They make me so undecided.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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2d002f1
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Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.
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self-expression
silence
thoughts
words
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Elizabeth Gaskell |