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  1. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession anymore. It was something to be traded, bought, and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market. Always, forever after, the possessor of the talent must keep a wary eye upon the purchaser. Therefore, if you were sensitive, if you were proud, you turned your back upon the market. You made excuses
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  2. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    However demanding Pappy may have been, however tiring, however petulant, he was, in the true and deepest sense, her refuge. He shielded her from action. His was the cloak that covered her. She need not go out into the world, she need not struggle, need not face the things that other people face-because she looked after Pappy
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  3. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    The trouble is, the children have no imagination. They are sweet, and have carefree, honest eyes; but they have not any magic in their day. The magic has all gone…
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  4. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    This, dear God, was his contribution to the universe. Take it or leave it. Not for Niall the joys of Paradise, perhaps; but at least not the pangs of Purgatory. A small place, possibly, outside the Golden Gates.
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  5. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    But the point is this, monsieur," explained the patron, "the reason why madame complains of you, is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.
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  6. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    Maria stepped out of the telephone box. A policeman at the corner was watching her. Caroline was still crying. Maria turned and pushed the pram in the opposite direction from the policeman. You never knew. It might be against the law to leave a child to cry.
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  7. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    Charles was nowhere to be seen. Maria had to go to look for him. Celia's anxiety mounted. Pappy would never hang on until after six. He was like a baby with a bottle. He had to keep to his regular time for his whiskey or his whole system became disorganized.
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  8. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    He argued the course of direction during the full seventy miles of the drive. The fact that his map was eighteenth century did not fluster him
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  9. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    Think of the unkind things we have forgotten," said Niall. "Those are the ones that will be totted up against us. I sometimes wake up in the early morning and go quite cold thinking of all the things I must have done and can't remember." "Pappy must have taught you that," said Celia. "Pappy had a fearful theory that when we die we go to a theater, and we sit down and see the whole of our lives re-acted before us. And nothing is omitted. Not one single, sordid detail. We have to watch it all.
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  10. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    Sir,' or whatever one does say to God, 'here I am, Maria, and I am the lowest form of life,' that would be honest. And honesty counts for something, doesn't it?" "One doesn't know," said Niall. "That's the frightful thing. One just does not know what goes down well with God. He may think honesty is a form of bragging." "In that case I'm sunk," said Maria. "I think you're sunk, anyway," said Niall
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  11. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    If the flower of my generation had not been blown to bits in the war they would have brought it back again. Now it's too late. So few of us are left." The bride at St. George's
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  12. Daphne du Maurier _ The Parasites

    She put back the receiver and lifted it again. She asked for the number of Niall's room at the theater. She went on ringing. And surely, she thought with sudden hopelessness and a new kind of dead despair, they can't both be out and away, now at this minute in my life, when I need both of them so much? Surely one of them will come, surely one of them will help me? Because I don't want to go home alone. I don't want to be in the house alone, without Pappy
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