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Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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the greatest harm I could possibly suffer would be to lose my liberty, to be forced into a conventional life of domestic duties and matrimony.
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My dear sister...
His dear sister.
Those words - how oddly they affected me
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If any decent woman's calling consisted of taking her proper place in society (husband and house, plus voice lessons and a piano in the drawing-room), then this particular woman-to-be prefers to remain indecent.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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To S.H. & M.H.: Rot. E.H.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.
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A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women’s so-called rights.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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I am a liar. All is not well. Not at all.
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2))
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ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST UVWXYZ And each part has five letters, except the last; but Z is used so seldom that it can be lumped together with Y. I then wrote my real message to Mum,
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Nancy Springer (The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2))