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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment. He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the country on fire: hence he liked the prospect of a wife to whom he could say, ‘What shall we do?’ about thi
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
A ferret? The Hathaways were definitely involved.
Lisa Kleypas • Tempt Me at Twilight (Hathaways)
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have the true melodic charm; and when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather t
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
It did not occur to him that Lydgate’s marriage was not delightful: he believed, as the rest did, that Rosamond was an amiable, docile creature, though he had always thought her rather uninteresting – a little too much the pattern-card of the finishing-school;
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
«Eliza, lembra-te de que ele não conhece a tua irmã tão bem como tu.»