At Chrighton Abbey Quotes

“I am no believer in visions or omens. After all, I would sooner fancy that I was dreaming - dreaming with my eyes open as I stood at the window - than that I beheld the shadows of the dead.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, At Chrighton Abbey

“Assisted and attended by her younger sister Laura, who was a kind of slave to her - a very colourless young lady in mind, capable of no such thing as an original opinion, and in person a pale replica of her sister.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, At Chrighton Abbey

“And then came a long interregnum devoted to the arts and mysteries of the toilet.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, At Chrighton Abbey

“Everything had a subdued and neutral tint; life at its best was calm and colourless, like a grey sunless day in early autumn, serene but joyless.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, At Chrighton Abbey

“I was three-and-thirty years of age. Youth was quite gone; beauty I had never possessed; and I was content to think of myself as a confirmed old maid, a quiet spectator of life's great drama, disturbed by no feverish desire for an active part in the play.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, At Chrighton Abbey