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Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have...more

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My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

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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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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 tr...more

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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin w...more

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She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could en...more

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.