Цитаты из книги автора Wilkie Collins The Woman in White

The natural impulse

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

to say the least of it.

Sometimes the death is delayed—sometimes it follows close on the treachery. It

So far," he resumed, "you think the society like other societies. Its object (in your English opinion) is anarchy and revolution. It takes the life of a bad king or a bad minister, as if the one and the other were dangerous wild beasts to be shot at the first opportunity. I grant you this.

It is not for you to say—you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the conquering—it is not

a stranger had been told that the whole neighbourhood belonged to him, that stranger would not have been surprised to hear it

Ten days later we were happier still. We were married

In the days of her prosperity, Marian, I was only the teacher who guided her hand—I ask for it, in her adversity, as the hand of my wife!"

So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passes away in the loneliness of the dead