Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes About Pleasure
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He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
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There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
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I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
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