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“People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.”
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?”
“We are home to each other now.”
“It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.”
“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”
“I have always been a night owl rather than a lark.”
“It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.”
“I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.”