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Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.Emery Lee
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True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)Emery Lee
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Try as you may, you can never defy love.Emery Lee
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Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.Emery Lee
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Over time, this unspoken attration continued to blossom, refusing to dwindle or fade, though they had little opportunity to foster or nourish it. Slowly and patiently, Robert's sheer persistence in the chase had revealed his heart, and Charlotte came to realize the nameless thing between them was love.Emery Lee
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I bid you welcome to a new Utopia where men may be free of the so-called moral subjugations and constraints, and where for a time we may shake off those bonds of servitude wherein we are so tyrrannously enslaved." "You are the humanist, George, not I- what the deuce does he natter on about?" "Mostly whores and Booze, " George replied with a grin. Sandwidh contined while rapping once more upon the door, "Man is led into vice only when he is denied, my friends; for it is his nature to long after things forbidden and to desire most fervently what is denied." "Another translation?" Philip asked George. "Whores and booze.. in boundless supply." "Ah, "Philip said. "I stand in renewed appreciation of the philosophers.Emery Lee
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Enjoy the ride!Emery Lee
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Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets! ".. Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the grey repeated the offense. "He wants another go at it. Be a sport ol' man! " Robert chortled. The indignant Scotsman threw the reins in his face, tromping off to collect the major's horse." I wonder was it reward or punishment Winthrop had in mind in allowing you to keep that brute?" Drake innocently inquired." He only eats Scotsman, " Robert quipped.Emery Lee