Wilkie Collins quote: If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and ...

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.

~ Wilkie Collins ~

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