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I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. - Letters of Ellen Glasgow [Advice] After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour. - Life and Gabriella [Books (First Lines)] When the Susquehanna stage came to the daily halt beneath the blasted pine at the cross-roads, an elderly man, wearing a flapping frock coat and a soft slouch hat, stepped gingerly over one of the muddy wheels, and threw a doubtful glance across the level tobacco fields, where the young plants were drooping in the June sunshine. - The Deliverance (book 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] By the open French window of the dining-room Jenny Blair Archibald was reading Little Woman for the assured reward of a penny a page. - The Sheltered Life [Books (First Lines)] As the night fell on her face Gerty Bridewell awoke, stifled a yawn with her pillow, and remembered that she had been very unhappy when she went to bed. - The Wheel of Life (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Children were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard. - Vein of Iron [Books (First Lines)]
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