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I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake. |
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Haley about slaves (and Tom) |
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There's an article, now! You might make your fortune on that ar gal in Orleans, any day. |
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These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. |
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Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. |
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Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow--the shadow of law. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to a master,--so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miser and toil, --so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. |
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X was a fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a lack of anything which might contribute to the physical comfort of the negroes on his estate. He had, however, speculated largely and quite loosely |
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X was a woman of high class, both intellectually and morally. To that natural magnanimity and generosity of mind which one often marks as characteristic of women of Knetucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results. Her husband, who made no professions to any particular religious character, nevertheless reverenced and respected the consistency of hers, and stood, perhaps, a little in awe of her opinion. Certain it was that he gave her unlimited scope in all her benevolent efforts for the comfort, instruction, and improvement of her servants, though he never took any decided part in them himself. In fact, if not exactly a believer in the doctrine of the efficiency of the extra good works of saints, he really seemed somehow or other to fancy that his wife had piety and benevolence enough for two--to indulge a shadowy expectation of getting into heaven through her superabundance of qualities to which he made no particular pretension. |
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Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument. There was only one thing that was capable of arousin her, and that provocation came in on the side of her unusually gentle and sympathetic nature; --anything in the shape of cruelty would throw her into a passion, which was the more alarming and inexplicable in proportion to the general softness of her nature. Generally the most indulgent and easy to be entreated of all mothers, still her boys had a very reverernt remembrance of a most vehement chastisement she once bestowed on them, because she found them leagued with several graceless boys of the neighborhood, stoning a defenceless kitten. |
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Narrator of Mrs. Bird |
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Your feelings are all quite right... but ... we mustn't suffer our feelings to run away with our judgement; you must consider it's a matter of private feeling,--there are great public interestests involved,--there is such a state of public agitation rising, that we must put aside our private feelings" |
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Your heart is better than your head, in this case. |
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Honest old x was once quite a considerable land-owner and slave owner in the State of Kentucky. Having 'nothing of the bear about him but the skin,' and being gifted by nature with a great, honest, just heart, quite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been for some years witnessing with repressed uneasiness the workings of a system equally bad for opressor and oppressed. At last one day, x's great heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his pocket-book out of his desk, and went over into Ohio, and bought a quarter of a township of good, rich land, made out free papers of all his people, --men, women, and children, --packed them up in wagons, and sent them off to settle down; and then honest x and turned his face up the creek, and sat quietly down on a snug, retired farm, to enjoy his conscience and his reflections. |
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My country!... What country have I, but the grave,--and I wish to God that I was laid there! |
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Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? |
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Narrator of Rachel Halliday |
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It had a turn for quacking and squeaking,--that chair had..but, as she gently swung backward and forward, the chair kept up a kind of subdued 'creechy crawchy,' that would have been intolerable in any other chair. But old x often declared it was as good as any music to him, and the children all avowed that they wouldn't msis of hearing mother's chair for anything in the word. For why? for twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;--head-aches and heart-aches innumerable had been cured there,--difficulties spiritual and temporal solved there,--all by one good, loving woman, God bless her! |
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Narrator of Rachel Halliday and her rocking chair |
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The next morning was a cheerful one at the Quaker house. 'Mother was up betimes, and surrounded by busy girls and boys... who all moved obediently to x's gentle 'thee had better,' or more gentle ' hadn't thee better?' in the work of getting breakfast. |
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We had rather, for our part, have the cestus of x, that kept heads from being turned, and made everything go on harmoniously. |
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While all other preparations were going on, x the elder stood in his shirt-sleeves before a little lookingglass in the corner, engaged in the anti-patriarchal operation of shaving. Everything went on so sociable, so quietly, so harmoniously, in the great kitchen, --it seemed so pelasant to every one to do just what they were doing, there was such an atmosphere of mutual confidence and good fellowship everywhere. |
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Narrator the Halliday's house |
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It was the first time that ever x had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table. |
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Narrator of George at the Halliday's |
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This, indeed, was a home,--home,--a word that x had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and cofidence, dark misanthropic, pining atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel, breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward. |
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Narrator of George at the Halliday's |
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If I didn't love x and the baby, I should not know how to feel for her. |
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Rachel Halliday about Eliza |
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In childhood, he was remarkable for an extreme and marked sensitiveness of character, more akin to the sofness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex. Time, however, overgrew hthis softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh is still lay at the core. His talents were of teh very first order, although his mind showed a preference always for the ideal and the aesthetic, andthere was about him that repugnance to the actual business of life which is the common result of this balance of faculties. |
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Narrator of Augustine St. Clare |
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In her habits, she was a living impersonation of order, method, and exactness. In punctuality, she was as inevitable as a clock, and as inexorable as a railroad engine; and she held in most decided contempt and abomination anything of a contrary character. |
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The great sin of sins, in her eyes,--the sum of all evils,--was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulary--'shiftlessness.' |
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Narrator of Miss Ophelia |
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x had never possessed much capability of affection, or much sensibility, and the little that she had, had been merged into a most intense and unconscious selfishness...there is not on earth a more merciless exactor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she exacts love, to the uttermost farthing. |
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Narrator of Marie St. Clare |
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x's mother had been a woman of uncommon elevation and purity of character, and he gave to his child his mother's name, fondly fancying that she would prove a reproduction of her image. |
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Narrator of Augustine St. Clare's mother |
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If ever Africa shall show an elevated and cultivated race,--and come it must, some time, her turn to figure in the great drama of human improvement,--life will awake there with a gorgeousness anad splendor of which our cold western tribes faintly have conceived. |
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In all these they will exhibit the highest form of the peculiarly Christian life, and, perhaps, as God chasteneth whom he loveth, he hath chosen poor Africa in the furnace of affliction, to make her the highest and noblest in that kingdom which he will set up, when every other kingdom has been tried, and failed; for the first shall be last, and the last first. |
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My dear child, what do you expect? Here is a whole class,--debased, uneducated, indolent, provoking,--put , without any sort of terms or conditions, entirely into the hands of such people as the majority in our world are; people who have neither consideration nor self-control, who haven't even an enlightened regard to their own interest,--for that's the case with the largest half of mankind. Of course, in a community so organized, what can a man of honorable and humane feelings do, but shut his eyes all he can, and harden his heart? I can't buy every poor wretch I see. I can't turn knight-errant, and undertake to redress every individual case of wrong in such a city as this. The most I can do is to try and keep out of the way of it. |
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Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, wihtout its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline. There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. Her face was remarkable less for its perfect beauty of feature than for a singular and dreamy earnestness of expression, which made the ideal start when they looked at her, and by which the dullest and most literal were impressed, without exactly knowing why. |
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Always dressed in white, she seemed to move like a shadow through all sorts of places, without contracting spot or stain. |
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her large, mystic eyes dilated with horror, and every drop of blood driven from her lips and cheeks. |
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Do you know who made you?
Nobody, as I knows on. I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me. |
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Miss Ophelia and Topsy |
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She was one of the balckest of her race... the expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity...Altogether, there was something odd and goblin-like about her appearance |
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That's you Christians, all over!--you'll get up a society, and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen. But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves! No; when it comes to that, they are dirty and disagreeable, and it's too much care, and so on. |
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X's talen for every species of drollery, grimace, and mimicry,--for dancing, tumbling, climbing, singing, whistling, imitating every sound that hit her fancy,--seemed inexhaustible. |
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Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good... There can't nobody love niggers and niggers can't do nothin'! |
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I love you, because you haven't had any father, or mother, or friends;--because you've been a poor, abused child! I love you, and I want you to be good. ..I wish you would try to be good, for my sake;--it's only a little while I shall be with you. |
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I've always had a prejudice against negroes... and it's a fact, I never could bear to have that child touch me; but, I don't think she knew it. |
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I can love you, though I am not like that dear little child. |
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I'm going there...to the spirits bright...I'm going, before long. |
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Has there ever been a child like x? Yes, there have been; but their names are always on grave-stones, and their sweet smiles, their heavenly eyes, thier singular words and ways, are among the buried treasures of yearning hearts. |
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To be a gentleman--a gentleman without stain or blemish--was his only religion, and to it he was always faithful. |
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Narrator of Judje York Leicester Driscoll |
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The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and the community's approbation. |
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Narrator of Judge Driscoll's wife and his sister, Mrs. Rachel Pratt |
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I wish I owned half of that dog... because I would kill my half. |
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The first day's verdict made him a fool, and he was not able to get it set aside, or even modified. The nickname soon ceased to carry any harsh or unfriendly feeling with it, but it held its place, and was to continue to hold its place for twenty long years. |
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The fad without a name was one which dealt with people's finger marks. |
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Narrator of Pudd'nhead |
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Only one sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show. She was of majestic form and stature, her attitudes were imposing and statuesque, and her gestures and movements distinguished by a noble and stately grace. |
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To all intents and purposes x was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth o fher which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. |
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What has my po' baby done, dat he couldnt' have yo' luck? He hain't done noth'n'. |
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Roxy to her son, Chambers |
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White folks has done it! It ain't no sin. |
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With all her splendid common sense and practical everyday ability, x was a doting fool of amother. She was this toward ehr child--and she was also more than this; by the fiction she created by herself, he was become her master...deceptions intended solely for others gradually grew practically into self-deceptions. He was her darling, her master, and her deity all in one, and in her worship of him she forgot who she was and what he had been. |
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Narrator of Roxy and Chambers (Tom) |
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Dat's one thing you's got to stop, x. You can't call me x, same as if you was my equal. Chillen don't speak to dey mammies liked dat. You'll call me ma or mammy, dat's what you'll call me--leastways when dey ain't nobody aroun'. Say it! |
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Why were niggers and whites made? What crime did teh uncreated first nigger commit tha tthe curse of birth was decreed for him? And why is this awful difference made between white and black?...How hard the nigger's fate seems, this morning!--yet until las tnight sucha thought never enetered my head. |
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He laughed at teh idea, and went rambling on with a detailed account of his talk with the judge, and how shocked and ashamed the judge was to find that he wad a coward in his family. X's bosom was heaving with suppressed passion, and she was glowering down upon him with measureless contempt written in her face. |
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Narrator of Chambers (Tom) and Roxy |
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It's de nigger in you, dat's what it is. Thirty-one parts o' you is white, en on'y one part nigger, en dat po' little one part is yo' soul. /Tain't wuth savin'; tain't wuth totin' out on a shovel en throwin' in de guttter. You has disgraced yo' birth. |
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Roxy to Chambers (Tom) |
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I'm often accused of not having 'story' enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need--to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my measure. |
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One had had from an early time... the instinct of the right estimate of such values and of its reducing to the inane the dull dispute over the 'immoral' subject and the moral. Recognising so promptly the one measure of the worth of a given subject, the question about it that, rightly answered, disposes of all others--is it valid, in a word, is it genuine, is it sincere, the result of some direct impression or perception of life? |
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What will she 'do'? Why, the first thing she'll do will be to come to Europe; which in fact will form, and all inevitably, no small part of her principal adventure. |
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There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth in this connexion than that of the perfect dependence of the 'moral' sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. |
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The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million--a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will. |
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Privacy here reigned supreme, and the wide carpet of turf that covered the level hill-top seemed but the extension of a luxurious interior. |
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Narrator about Gardencourt |
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The house that rose beyond the lawn was a structure to repay such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. |
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X loomed up before he, largely and brightly, as a collection of attributes and powers which were not to be measured by this simple rule, but which demanded a different sort of appreciation |
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Narrator of Warburton |
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What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into the system in which he rather invidiously lived and moved. A certain instinct, not imperious, but persuasive, told her to resist--murmured to her that virtually she had a system and an orbit of her own. |
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I don't say I shall always think your remonstrance just.
Very likely not. You're too fond of your own ways.
Yes, I think I'm very fond of them. But I always want to know the things one shouldn't do.
So as to do them?
So as to choose. |
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She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain. |
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She had a natural taste; he was struck with that...she was better worth looking at than most works of art. |
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What you will marry for, heaven only knows. People usually marry as they go into partnership--to set up a house. But in your partnership you'll bring everything. |
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Mrs. Touchett to Isabel |
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the state of his health had seemed not a limitation, but a kind of intellectual advantage; it absolved him from all professional and official emotions and left him the luxury o fbeing exclusively personal. |
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You were the last person I expected to see caught. |
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At these words a sudden passion leaped to x's lips. 'ah, that's wilful, that unworthy of you! You were not meant to be measured in that way--you were meant for soemthing better than to keep guard over the sensibilities of a sterile dilettante! |
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Ralph to Isabel about Osmond |
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His ambition was not to please the world, but to please himslef by exciting world's curiosity and then declinig to satisfy it. |
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What could be a happier gift in a companion than a quick, fanciful mind which saved one repetitions and reflected one's thought on a polished, elegant surface?...this lady's intelligence was to be a silver plate, not an earthern one--a plate that he might heap up with ripe fruits, to which it would give a decorative value, so that talk might become for him a sort of served dessert. |
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Narrator describing Osmond's attitute toward Isabel |
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Yes, I'm afraid of suffering. But I'm not afraid of ghosts. And I think people suffer too easily...It's not absolutely necessary to suffer; we were not made for that...only if you don't suffer they call you hard |
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There's no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we're each of us made up os ome cluster of appurtenances...I've a great respect for things! |
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For it was part of the influence he had upon her that he seemed to deprive her of the sense of freedom. There was a disagreeably strong push, a kind of hardness of presence, in his way of rising before her. She had been haunted at moments by the image, by the image, by the danger, of his disapproval and had wondered--a consideration she had never paid in equal degree to any one else--whether he would like what she did. The difficulty was that more than any man she had ever known, more than poor Lord Warburton (she had begun now to give his lorship the benefit of this epithet), x expressed for her an energy--and she had already felt it as a power--that was of his very nature. It was in no degree a matter of his 'advantages'--it was a matter of the spirit |
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Narrator of Caspar Goodwood |
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It was an old house...a large, square, double house, with a notice of sale in the windows of one of the lower apartments. There were two entrances, one of which had long been out of use but had never been removed. |
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Narrator about the Albany house |
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She knew that this silent, motionless portal opened into the street...but she had no wish to look out, for this would have interfered with her theory that there was a strange, unseen place on the other side |
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Narrator of Isabel at Albany |
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This antique, solid, weather-worn, yet imposing front had a somewhat incommunicative character. It was the mask, not the face of the house. |
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Narrator about Osmond's villa |
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I know him very little, and I confess I haven't facts and items to prove him a villain. But all the same I can't help feeling that you're running a grave risk. |
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Now that he had seen x, whom he thought a very fine example of his race and order, he perceived a new attraction in the idea of taking to himself a young lady who had qualified herself to figure in his collection of choice objects by declining so noble a hand. x had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality. He had never forgiven his star for not appointing him to an English dukdom, and he could measure the unexpectedness of such conduct as x's. |
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Narrator describing Osmond's view of Isabel refusing Lord Warburton |
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I think he's narrow, selfish. He takes himself so seriously. |
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He has a great respect for himself; I don't blame him for that. It makes on more sure to respect others. |
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It would be proper that the woman he might marry should have done something of that sort. |
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Narrator (Osmond, Isabel, and Warburton) |
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I hope it may never be my fortune to fail to gratify my husband. |
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He's not so weak as to need my defence. |
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At present, however, she neither taunted him with his fallacies nor pretended that her own confidence was justified; if she wore a mask it completely covered her face. There was something fixed and mechanical in the serenity painted on it; this was not an expression, x said--it was a representation, it was even an advertisment |
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Narrator describing Isabel |
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She struck him as having a great love of movement, of gaiety, of late hours, of long rides, of fatigue; an eagerness to be entertained, to be interested, even to be bored, to make acquaintances, to see people who were talked about. |
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Narrator about Isabel |
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There was a kind of violence in some of her impulses, of crudity in some of her experiments, which took him by surprise: it seemed to him that she even spoke faster, moved faster, breathed faster, than before her marriage. Certainly she had fallen into exaggerations. |
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Of old she had been curious, and now she was indifferent, and yet in spite of her indifference her activity was greater than ever. |
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The ree, keen girl had become quite another person. |
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Narrator about Isabel |
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Under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values x lived exlusively for the world. |
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His tastes, his studies, his accomplishments, his collections, were all for a purpose. |
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His solitude, his ennui, his love for his daughter, his good manners, his bad manners, were so many features of a mental image and constantly present to him as a model of impertinence and mystification. His ambition was not to please the world, but to please himself by exciting the world's curiosity and then declining to satisfy it. |
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Her head was erect, as usual, but her eyes were bent on his. What struck x first was that he was sitting while x stood; there was an anomaly in this that arrested her. |
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Narrator of Isabel watching Osmond and MM |
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Was she to cultivate the advantage she possessed in order to make him commit himself to x, knowing he would do so for her sake and not for the small creature's own--was this the service her husband had asked of her? |
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Narrator describing Isabel's dilema with Osmond's request concerning Warburton |
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...His faculty for making everything wither that he touched, spoiling everything for her that he looked at. |
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Nothing was a pelasure to her now; how could anything be a pleasure to a woman who knew that she had thrown away her life? |
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She didn't hate him, that she was sure of, for every little while she felt a passionate wish to give him a pleasant surprise. |
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Her mask had dropped for an instant, but she had put it on again, to x's infinite disappointment. |
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Narrator of Isabel and Ralph |
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Why did she ask him his advice if she gave him no liberty to answer her?...These contradictions were themselves but an indication of her trouble, and her cry for help. |
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this was the hot wind of the desert, at the approach of which the others dropped dead, like mere sweet airs of the garden. It wrapped her about; it lifted her off her feet, while the very taste of it, as of something potent, acrid and strange, forced open her set teeth. |
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Narrator of Goodwood and Isabel |
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least pleased her, each aggressive fact of his face, his figure, his presence, justified of its intense identity and made one with his act of possession. |
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Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist. |
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Vizzini, The Princess Bride |
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