His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
"Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play."
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
"I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly."
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
"Is there no difference," asked Helena, with a little faltering in her manner; "between submission to a generous spirit, and submission to a base or trivial one?"
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
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His philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
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"I love you, love you, love you! If you were to cast me off now - but you will not - you would never be rid of me. No one should come between us. I would pursue you to the death."
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
"Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him."
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
"The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. "
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
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"You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed."
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens
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