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1 " There, there," she said. "Don't take it so hard, Dee. Wars don't last forever. I know. I can remember... "
― Elswyth Thane , Yankee Stranger (Williamsburg #2)
2 " They were so young, so gloriously, obliviously young, that it hurt to look at them. "
3 " I've seen you by candlelight, and midday, and firelight--and in a thunderstorm. And if I were struck blind as I stand here I would see you till I die as you are now, with tears on your cheeks, because I don't take you in my arms and fight the whole boiling lot of them for you! "
4 " He had been amused, and sometimes stimulated, and once or twice rather attracted, but he had never been stirred as this honest, laughing Virginia girl had stirred him, with her level green gaze and her odd little dignity, and her sweet reposefulness which was just her breeding. "
5 " He laid her hands, palms upward, against his face, and she sat looking down at his bent head, a little disturbed in her soul that he should fling away his principles and his convictions quite so heedlessly for her sake. Mr. Murray, for instance, seemed not to have altered his chosen course a single degree because of Eden. Of course Mr. Murray was a Yankee. Virginia men, she had heard, were more considerate. "
6 " Any time I'm happier with you drowned in the river, I belong in the Asylum. "
7 " Laurel for you—can you stay on? "
