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“If putting pictures on cloth was the province of men, you may be quite sure it would be hailed as the miracle of the age.”
Periodt sis
“I cannot meet him as a stranger. But he has never known me as myself.” “Could this not be an opportunity for him to do so?” “And if he does not wish to?” “Then he’s not worthy of it.”
However, if I don’t get some tea directly I will commit murder.
Maybe he thought she was unhinged.
“Please don’t laugh, Miss Carroll. If you’re laughing, you must be smiling, and I don’t think I can climb back up to see it.”
Hehehehe
Oh God, this was a torment. Wanting so terribly to be seen, and terrified of what it might mean if she was.
“Exactly. Breakfast is the best meal of the day—as it should be, to console one for having to get out of bed.
“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
A barger and a poker-of-noses perhaps, but never a burster-in.
why are you so quick to assume me a heathen?”
“Oh, Viola, I never wanted to kiss my friend.”
“I think I could learn to live without you, but I have no wish to.”
“You have to be quiet when you’re eavesdropping. Otherwise it’s just a logistically difficult conversation.”
“I require very little encouragement to interfere in the lives of others.”
Truthfully, the idea of any woman’s admiration felt abstract and irrelevant. For it was Viola he wanted.
My recommendation is that you give serious consideration to heading down to the Thames and drowning your head in a bucket of eels.”
