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But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

...if your dear heart is wronged, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

The mind is a different organ by night and by day.

The gloom was increased by several grand old trees

the wicked woman's son was evidently making love to the girl. Both were standing by the old window-seat,

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.

The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.

Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.

In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it
came by it.

D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me.

It stands on a slight eminence

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.

I believe the entire natural world is but the ultimate expression of that spiritual world from which, and in which alone, it has its life.

In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

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the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,

You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.