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  1. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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  2. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    Is that branch worrying you?" Simon asked her. "Would you like to change places? I hope you wouldn't because your hair looks so nice against the leaves
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  3. Dodie Smith _ The 101 Dalmatians

    Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.
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  4. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.
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  5. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands.Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman.
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  6. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.
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  7. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could never mean anything to him, such a chance would have seemed heaven on earth. And surely I could give him - a sort of contentment?That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
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  8. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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  9. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    ...he talked quite naturally while we ate - about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one has the desire to describe beauty."Perhaps it's an attempt to possess it," I said."Or be possessed by it; perhaps that's the same thing, really. I suppose it's the complete identification with beauty one's seeking."The mist grew brighter and brighter.
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  10. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
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  11. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.
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  12. Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle

    But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said.'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could see the bubbles coming up. And then I saw the dark bulk of it under the water, being carried along by the current.''But you didn't have a lantern,' I said.'He didn't have a bear,' said Topaz.
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