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1 " He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
2 " [S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces .... "
― Charles Dickens , Bleak House
3 " As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon. "
― Adelaide Crapsey , Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
