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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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‘Did you take it?’ said James, looking at the children one after the other. Abruptly he seemed remote and stern, and desirable because of this; so Thomas turned away in shame.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
‘the morals of the
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Kay crawls up from under his hill, up through the claggy earth.
Thomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
The oldest of three children in a single parent family, Alan prided himself on having never caused his mother a moment’s pain.
Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy
Of course I have not the least claim—indeed, I have already a debt to you which will never be discharged, even when I have been able to pay it in the shape of money.” “Yes, my boy, you have a claim,” said Caleb, with much feeling in his voice. “The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

