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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to se...more

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If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

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- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? what sort of master is he? - Did yo' e...more

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She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her still, even though she shook him off with contempt? ...more

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I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do'Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly t...more

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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would...more

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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her s...more

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Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terri...more

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If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that ...more

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It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back...more

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Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! –

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One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannotcleanse you from it. But I w...more

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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

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It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she coul...more