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Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

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British Novelist, Writer September 29, 1810 – November 12, 1865

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Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "A girl in love will do a good deal."
A girl in love will do a good deal. Elizabeth Gaskell
I just wished to know if you mean to marry the girl. Spite of what you said of her lightness, I ha' known her long enough to be sure she'll make a noble wife for any one, let him be what he may; and I mean to stand by her like a brother; and if you mean rightly, you'll not think the worse on me for what I've now said; and if--but no, I'll not say what I'll do to the man who wrongs a hair of her head. He shall rue it to the longest day he lives, that's all. Now, sir, what I ask of you is this.... Elizabeth Gaskell
And as for your hair! it's worse than ever. Can't you drench it in water to take those untidy twists and twirls out of it?' 'It only makes it curl more and more whey it gets dry,' said Molly, sudden tears coming into her eyes as a recollection came before her like a picture seen long ago and forgotten for years-a young mother washing and dressing her little girl; placing the half-naked darling on her knee, and twining the wet rings of dark hair fondly round her fingers, and then, in ecstasy... Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were..."
The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a..."
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! Elizabeth Gaskell

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