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  1. Jacqueline Winspear _ Leaving Everything Most Loved

    sometimes talked about your offering a place of refuge for the women here." "Well, when she was with the vicar it was different. No one would have said anything to him. He had a regard for her, you see." Maisie nodded. "Thank you. You've been most kind." She turned to leave, but as the Paiges were about to step into the house, she looked back as if forgetting something. "Oh, one last thing, Mr. Paige. Could you tell me how much longer Miss Pramal would have had to wait until she had enough saved for her passage to Bombay?" Paige looked at Maisie for more than a few seconds before answering. "She could have sailed three months before she died, Miss Dobbs, but I think she wanted to wait for Miss Patel. She didn't seem in a hurry to leave, even if she did feel like a mouse with a few crumbs." Maisie left Addington Square and walked in the
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  2. Jacqueline Winspear _ Leaving Everything Most Loved

    But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
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  3. Jacqueline Winspear _ Leaving Everything Most Loved

    And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave?I think it will contribute to my understanding of the world, of people.More so than say, the old lady who has lived in the same house her entire life, who has borne children both alive and dead? Who tends her soil; who sees the sun shine and the rain fall over the land, winter, spring, summer and autumn? What might you say to the idea that we all have a capacity for wisdom, just as a jug has room for a finite amount of water-pouring more water in the jug doesn't increase that capacity.
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  4. Jacqueline Winspear _ Leaving Everything Most Loved

    But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is that because it's beyond them? Is it because beauty represents something they cannot have, or is not inside them?
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  5. Jacqueline Winspear _ Leaving Everything Most Loved

    I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be."
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