Lady Audley's Secret

I believe rather that we

mind superior to my own, and I yield to it, and bow down to it.

To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery.

scarcely think there is a greater sin, Lucy,” he said, solemnly, “than that of a woman who marries a man she does not love.

will be able to commit no more. If you were to dig a grave for her in the nearest churchyard and bury her alive in it, you could not more safely shut her from the world and all worldly

People who observed this, accounted for it by saying that it was a part of her amiable and gentle nature always to be light-hearted, happy and contented under any circumstances.

there was some strong emotion at work in his breast—neither joy nor triumph, but something almost akin to disappointment—

her cheeks; the unnatural light still glittered in her eyes.

She has the cunning of madness, with the prudence of intelligence. I will tell you what she is, Mr. Audley. She is dangerous!”