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Аноним16 сентября 2018 г.Читать далееI am, my friends agree, a fairly easy-going sort of chap, not quick to anger or to fear. Thus, when I came to live in Caldwell Place, I paid no mind to the screams in the night, which could well have been foxes or cats (never mind that they sprang from the empty air of my bedroom). I scarcely objected to the muffled moans, which could have come from a neighbour’s pleasures (if the house had not stood alone, with no neighbour for a mile to either side).
But I did feel it was a bit much when the walls began to bleed.256- Аноним16 сентября 2018 г.
He was not—never would be—a sophisticated lover, but sincerity can do things sophistication cannot.
130 - Аноним1 апреля 2018 г.Читать далее
We will do our duty until this insane conflict ends, or until it ends us. Either way, we shall not return to England. I dream of warmth, blue skies and peace, lapping seas, and a lonely cottage a very long way from other people. Somewhere unravaged by war, if such a place still exists in Europe. Somewhere Whitehall will not find us, and the voices of the dead will drop to a whisper, and two ageing gentlemen may share a house in peace, without prying eyes and the threat of shame in a country that makes a fetish of death and a crime of love.
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(I asked him, afterwards, why he had kept words of love and desire that could damn us both when any sensible man would have burned the blasted thing. He replied, “It was the thing you wrote for me.”)
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And it seemed probable that Jo needed a protector. Our inflexible, rulebound world was not kind to those who stepped away from man or woman’s allocated position.
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“They flayed him alive and nailed his skin to the door. Didn’t they? It wasn’t hell I saw, it wasn’t devils. It was people.”
“It frequently is, in my experience.”116 - Аноним1 апреля 2018 г.
It was impossible, from the shadowed, smooth features, the robes, and the pleasant alto voice, to tell whether the Seer of Secrets was male or female, or both, or other. As we were to learn, neither “he” nor “she” is quite appropriate for that remarkable person; I prefer to do violence to grammar rather than insult to nature, and use a singular “they”.
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If every abandoned child on the London streets left a wailing ghost, the living would not hear ourselves speak for their cries.
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