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"Hullo! No!--Yes!--upon my soul, it is Jacob! Why, Delafield, my dear fellow, how are you?" - Lady Rose's Daughter (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It was a brilliant afternoon towards the end of May. The spring had been unusually cold and late, and it was evident from the general aspect of the lonely Westmoreland valley of Long Whindale that warmth and sunshine had only just penetrated to its bare green recesses, where the few scattered trees were fast rushing into their full summer dress, while at their feet, and along the bank of the stream, the flowers of March and April still lingered, as though they found it impossible to believe that their rough brother, the east wind, had at last deserted them. - Robert Elsmere [Books (First Lines)] Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. - Robert Elsmere (ch. XXVII) [Experience] "He ought to be here," said Lady Tranmore, as she turned away from the window. - The Marriage of William Ashe [Books (First Lines)]
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