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> [“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the passage to the parsonage hall, and on the stroke of twelve, threw wide the front door…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/as-the-parlour-clock-began-to-strike-twelve-i-opened-the-kitchen-door/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

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## More by Stephanie Barron

> [“It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/it-is-ever-thus-we-find-the-words-to-speak-when-all-hope-of-converse/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/friends-in-my-experience-are-like-ladies-fashions-they-come-and-go/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“...life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/life-s-burdens-may-only-be-overcome-by-a-summoning-of-inner-resources/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/the-landscape-artist-had-captured-a-distant-prospect-of-an-ancient/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/we-cannot-expect-the-men-we-appoint-to-govern-us-to-be-better-than/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/as-the-parlour-clock-began-to-strike-twelve-i-opened-the-kitchen-door/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/there-is-something-so-inevitable-about-seven-and-twenty-it-is/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/the-long-blue-shadows-of-afternoon-advanced-before-me-like-cheerful/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/is-lawlessness-to-be-permitted-simply-because-it-is-effected-with-a/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/i-admire-your-courage-it-is-rare-to-find-a-woman-who-places-her/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/providence-assuredly-is-a-mysterious-mover-and-who-is-jane-to-ignore/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

> [“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-barron/the-world-however-bleak-i-have-found-it-in-the-last-few-weeks-must/)

[Stephanie Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-barron/)

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