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Category: Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.

Man, Woman, Story

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

conversations, know, knowing, speak, talk

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

chocolate, food, marriage

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

count-fosco, honesty, prison, scoundrel

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.

arrow, beautiful, beauty, dark, death, drown, end, fin, grave, hope, journey, love, mortality, pestilence, sea, spares, the-end, the-good, the-sea, tragedy, wastes, young, youth

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

acknowledge, acknowledgement, adversaries, adversary, beforehand, brains, clever, enemies, enemy, intelligence, intelligent, man, smart, smarts, thought

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

humorous, reason, religion

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

mystery, sensation, thewomaninwhite, victorian, wilkiecollins

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far,” says Mr. Superintendent, with his military voice still in good working order. “I have now only one remark to offer, on leaving this case in your hands. There IS such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Good-morning.””There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a mole-hill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it.” Having returned his brother-officer’s compliment in those terms, Sergeant Cuff wheeled about, and walked away to the window by himself.

comebacks, mystery, witty

Did you fall asleep?””No. I couldn’t sleep that night.””You were restless?””I was thinking of you.”The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.

intrigue, love-story, moonstone, mystery

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

desire, solitude, temptation

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

constancy, failure, faultlessness, faults, human-nature, steadfastness