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I will be the first man to kiss you... to bed you… Whether you come willingly or not. You will be mine, and mine alone. Do you understand?

I did not ask you to look! — said Tabais, — Looking is what all fools do. I asked you to see from here, — he pressed his thumb hard in a middle of Jan's forehead, — this is how we must learned to see. Not with your eyes — they are so easily tricked.

Tabais embraced Jan:
"I knew you would return and I knew we have not much time because you're going back across the water!"

On the first day of his employment, what appeared before Mr. Rose was a well-dressed, intelligent-looking young gentleman.
“Appearances can be deceptive,” Mr. Rose was to grumble three weeks later.

They say one man’s misfortune is another man’s misfortune.

You look, but you don't see!