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I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the ...more

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Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself ...more

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...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

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The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a gre...more

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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

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In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even ...more

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Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent acros...more

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Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

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The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presenc...more