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- It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder,…
- Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying…
- Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the…
- He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
- ...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...
- I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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