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“You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,’ Miss Haxby said, after a moment. ‘But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.” quote by Sarah Waters — Download Open image

““You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,’ Miss Haxby said, after a moment. ‘But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.””

Sarah Waters

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