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Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness
It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
Dracula / Loneliness and Hope
He took my hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetnes...
Wuthering Heights / Urgent Revelation
“You must read it immediately, because it wants an answer. Shall I break the seal?” “Yes,” she answered, without altering the direction of her eyes.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Peril
But if this awful noise proceeds from a cataract--if, so to speak in plain English, this vast interior ocean is precipitated into a lower basin--if th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Moral Quandary
This man, whom he had just followed around the world, was permitted now to separate himself from him! He began to accuse and abuse himself, and, as if...
Frankenstein / Steeple of Isolation
At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes. I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased. The...