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Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world’s end.

— Sigrid Undset The Wife (1921)

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The Devil himself must have a hand in it when a man’s wife goes to his brother for confession!

The Wife (1921)

Many a man is given what was intended for another, but no one is given another man’s fate.

The Cross (1922)

It must be bitter for a woman of good family to arrive on the arm of the landowner, only to leave with the farm hand.

The Wreath (1920)

It’s useless to be frightened; fearful men are half dead already.

The Cross (1922)

No one has the same color of hair or temperament in the rain as in the sun.

The Wreath (1920)

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