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Speak Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as…
- She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of -…
- Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I…
- 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," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them…
- Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the…
- He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept…
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