“I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are said to… — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.” — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?” — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine” — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always… — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share
“I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.” — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror… — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I had first thought of Milly's absurdities, to which, in description, I cannot do justice, simply because so many details have, by distance of… — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
