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Quotes from The Lady's Mile — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

1835–1915 England

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The disease which was undermining Lady Cecil’s moral constitution was not sorrow; it was only the absence of joy.

The Lady's Mile (1866)

You appreciate his goodness, perhaps; but you don't appreciate him. You just tolerate him because he is good and kind to you, and works like a galley-slave to insure your welfare in the future; but if he could read 'Victor Hugo' like a play-actor and make an idiot of himself about Mendelssohn, you’d adore him.

The Lady's Mile (1866)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.