Circumstances Quote by Ann Radcliffe

“To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.”

Ann Radcliffe

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“My dear sir,’ said Emily, timidly, ‘what mean those tears?’—they speak, I fear, another language—they plead for me.”

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“And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then, When your eyes roll so. Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some…

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“Why all this terror?' said he, in a tremulous voice. 'Hear me, Emily: I come not to alarm you; no, by Heaven! I love…

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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough…

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“She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction”

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