Jane and the Man of the Cloth Quotes

“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“I must wonder less, and enquire more, before I shall know how to think.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“But, Jane,” she whispered low in my ear as she passed, “do you be careful. She is French, after all, and may very well be a murderess, and must possess arts you can know nothing of.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“Much may preserve her from a state such as mine—growing old, unloved, and unprovided-for. And yet I am only ten years her senior. Only ten years!—Of balls, and flirtations, and new dresses and fashions; of disappointments, broken hearts, and fading hopes. I shall be nine-and-twenty next Christmas; and Lucy only just embarked upon her ten years. I would not wish them to end as mine have done.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“September is a month of paradoxes—part decaying summer, part incipient autumn; and the complexity of its character decidedly suits my own.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth