Cranford

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“I’ll not listen to reason,” she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. “Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

“We looked into the darkness of futurity as a child gazes after a rocket up in the cloudy sky, full of wondering expectation of the rattle, the discharge, and the brilliant shower of sparks and light.”

“I saw, I imitated, I survived!”

” . . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.”

. . . she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.