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1 " Oh, I know you think the corals too young for me. You have not worn them since you left off dotted muslins. You insist upon growing old. I insist upon remaining young. "
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman , Complete Collection of Mary Wilkins Freeman (Annotated): Collection Includes An Alabaster Box, The Adventures of Ann, The Butterfly House, The Debtor, The Givers, And More
2 " He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world. "
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3 " It was true that in a measure she could take them with her, but, robbed of their old environments, they would appear in such new guises that they would almost cease to be themselves. "
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman , A New England Nun and Other Stories
4 " There was only one person in the village who had actually known Luella Miller. That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth. "
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ,
5 " You 'ain't found out yet we're women-folks, Nanny Penn," said she. "You 'ain't seen enough of men-folks yet to. One of these days you'll find it out, an' then you'll know that we know only what men-folks think we do, so far as any use of it goes, an' how we'd ought to reckon men-folks in with Providence an' not complain of what they do any more than we do of the weather. "
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman , The Complete Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman (26 Complete Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman Including An Alabaster Box, The Adventures of Ann, The Butterfly House, The Debtor, The Givers, And More)
6 " Luella, she kept gettin' paler and paler, and she never took her eyes off my face. There was somethin' awful about the way she looked at me and never spoke a word. "
