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"The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? – that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for – sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275]"

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About Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist and short-story writer of the Victorian era. She is known for works such as Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South. She also wrote an influential biography of Charlotte Bronte.

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