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18 Dec

And - Chapters 9-16

Posted by Edward Picot in abridged version, Elizabeth Gaskell, hyperliterature, literature, North and South

"Mr Thornton walked rapidly, without awaiting Dixon's slow movements. Margaret stood by the tea-table, resolved. The lines in her father's face were soft and waving, with a frequent undulating kind of trembling, the dreamy lids a considerable distance from the eyes. Mr Thornton's straight brows fell low, principally about the lips, one moment stretching from earth to sky and filling all the width of the horizon, at the next obediently compressed into a vase."

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20 Sep

And - Chapters 1-8

Posted by Edward Picot in abridged version, Elizabeth Gaskell, hyperliterature, literature, North and South

"The house was full of packing-cases. Even the pretty lawn at the side was to pack up, stiffly and slowly, through the bare echoing November. The very robin that her father had so often made, with his own hands, more gorgeous than ever; amber and golden; here, at this bed of thyme, began to speak of carrots. The grand inarticulate mighty roar."

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