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Firsts Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with…
- 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…
- He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
- He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
- Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown…
- She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at…
- It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the…
- How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it…
- Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have…
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