“These dinners were delightful; but even here Margaret’s dissatisfaction found her out. Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted itself in sparkle and crackle. They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead …
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“These dinners were delightful; but even here Margaret’s dissatisfaction found her out. Every talent,…”
“These dinners were delightful; but even here Margaret’s dissatisfaction found her out. Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted itself in sparkle and crackle. They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead …
galathea-snb: Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father’s; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other. Source: galathea-snb
loversphilosophy: It’s a business proposition. Source: tommyshelbe
dearemma: ‘Very well. Only you must pay me for them!’‘How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?’ she whispered, after some time of delicious silence.
north-and-prejudice: #concerned boyfriend (ﾉ・ω・)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
anne-elliots-bashful-heart: “he could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, to melt away every resolution, all power of self control, as if it were wax before …
misselizabethbennets: He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered, panted out the words:— Take care. If you do not speak, I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go. Margaret! At that third call …
galathea-snb: Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father’s; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other. Source: galathea-snb
sleepy-platypus: Pride and Prejudice (2005) | North and South (2004) for @ordinary-bibliophile
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