Anthony Hope

“ Lawrence observed: "Good so often comes out of suffering, doesn't it?"
"It indeed seems to be the way of the world."
"A woman placed as you describe, Mr. Vansittart, would feel, I'm sure, so deep, so strong a gratitude for the man who had nobly dedicated his life to her, that, as time wore on, she would give to him an affection, different in kind, perhaps, but not inferior in intensity, to that which she had felt for the man who first won her heart." ”

“ Women are strange creatures. Mrs. Lawrence leapt up from her seat and stood over me. Her eyes flashed with indignation, and she positively brandished her parasol at me.
"You horrid, horrid boy!" she cried.
"My dear Mrs. Lawrence——" I protested.
"You've made me talk as if I——"
"It was a mere hypothesis," I pleaded.
"As if I—oh! Anyhow, if my husband were drowned a thousand times over, I'd never speak to you."
"So you say now," said I, composedly. "But you know you were quite taken with the prospect a little while ago."
"Mr. Vansittart, you're wicked! ”

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