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Rather Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
- What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?…
- here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing…
- Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite…
- I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or…
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