The Moonstone

how could I destroy the only thing I had which proved that I had saved you from discovery?

But it does stir one up to hear Miss Rachel called pretty, when one knows all the time that it’s her dress does it, and her confidence in herself.

the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich

when it would please God to take me

and which was even beyond the reach of Robinson Crusoe.

You think Mr. Franklin Blake hasn’t got a suspicion of the girl’s fancy for him? Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let’s hope it will be made up to them in another

Fear of Danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than Danger itself, when apparent to the Eyes; and we find the Burden of Anxiety greater, by much, than the Evil which we are anxious about.”

In this anxious frame of mind, other men might have ended by working themselves up into a fever; I ended in a different way. I lit my pipe, and took a turn at Robinson Crusoe.

I would have taken Rosanna Spearman out of the house, then and there, with my own hand.

If your good lady doesn’t exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!—you have married a monster.