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Miss Cornelia snipped her thread off as viciously as if, Nero-like, she was severing the neck of mankind by the stroke.

It is the injustice that stings me. There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped

triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle. Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle

Mrs. Davis did not say anything half so amiable as good afternoon, but she took her departure.

can never get used to the way you mention the—the—that name, complained Felicity. To hear you speak of the Old Scratch any one would think he was just a common person.

Henry VII was "full of notes," and with infinite care he initialed each page of the exchequer accounts and amassed a comfortable surplus in the treasury.

Tippets; Dry Fly Fishing; Great Lakes Salmon

on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is .

There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.

And it's the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.

His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives.

It's his dern laziness," Call said. "Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him.

If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living

Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.

It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.

the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.

I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we'd have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.

There's no one book that would define me; I'd have to name nearly every book that I've read over the past 70 years. Reading has sustained me and has been the one constant throughout my life.

I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said.

I can work and think too," Call said. "You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.

The woman, Dillard whispered. The woman. They say he missed that whore.

Men are about as worthless a race of people as I've ever encountered.