Marion Chesney Quotes

#1. may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed

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#2. endured - how I endured! - for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling

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#3. without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

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#4. Do you know, Carter, that I can actually write my name in the dust on the table? Faith, Mum, that's more than I can do. Sure, there's nothing like education, after all. - Punch

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#5. Miss Manson," said Freddie, "I think I love you.

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#6. managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar's Head, she welcomed even the

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#7. there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

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#8. In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered - Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.

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#9. Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

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#10. Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

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#11. Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And

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#12. He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

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#13. Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot,

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#14. Poverty is the mother of crime. - MARCUS AURELIUS

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#15. Aubrey Davenport was dressed like a fop, had the manners of a fop, and appeared to have the intelligence of a potato.

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#16. Holding her great breast in both hands as if she were holding a pudding, Mrs. Otterley rushed out.

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#17. Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh

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#18. you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells

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#19. His voice became louder as he

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