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  1. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Shuttle

    You have yourself under magnificent control, but a woman passionately in love cannot keep a certain look out of her eyes.""If it is there - let it stay," she said. "I would not keep it out of my eyes if I could, and, you are right, I could not if I would - if it is there. If it is - let it stay.
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  2. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Shuttle

    We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
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  3. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Shuttle

    The strong and strange thing-that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun-had begun to move in them. It was no new and rare thing, but an ancient and common one-as common and ancient as death and birth themselves; and part of the law as they are. As it comes to royal persons to whom one makes obeisance at their mere passing by, as it comes to scullery maids in royal kitchens, and grooms in royal stables, as it comes to ladies-in-waiting and the women who serve them, so it had come to these two who had been drawn near to each other from the opposite sides of the earth, and each started at the touch of it, and withdrew a pace in bewilderment, and some fear.
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  4. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Shuttle

    It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the other that no sentence could seem wholly impersonal. There are times when the whole world is personal to a mood whose intensity seems a reason for all things. Words are of small moment when the mere sound of a voice makes an unreasonable joy.
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  5. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Shuttle

    Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling...
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