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Four White Walls
I laughed. It wasn’t a belly laugh. It was a laugh that was expected of me. That’s what we did in those days, Goi and I. When I came to rest on her skin I turned brown. When she landed on mine, she turned black. Two well-meaning but ill-advised chameleons, mirroring each other’s emotions so thoroughly that in the end we gave life to a third party - a nusu nusu. The half-and-half who laughed. Even when it was not appropriate. That morning, I laughed our nusu nusu laugh.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 33
More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park, unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third. It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 12
“You’re looking well, dear,” Frances commented when Esson opened the cottage door. “You spend so much time holed away here, we hardly know what you look like anymore.”
“Forgive me for not having been more sociable. I am keeping myself busy while Hector is away.”
Hector and Royston had taken a ten-day trip into the interior on “men’s business”. Esson knew their trips had something to do with ivory purchases and big game hunting but, when she asked Hector, he merely replied: “A bit of fishing, a bit of hunting, terribly boring for you, my dear.”
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 32
Elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning, and writing to Jane while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village, when she was startled by a ring at the door, the certain signal of a visitor. As she had heard no carriage, she thought it not unlikely to be Lady Catherine, and under that apprehension was putting away her half-finished letter that she might escape all impertinent questions, when the door opened, and, to her very great surprise, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy only, entered the room. He seemed astonished too on finding her alone, and apologised for his intrusion by letting her know that he had understood all the ladies were to be within.
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 11
Esson was being driven to town, accompanied by a bald and rather menacing fellow named Jake.
It had taken skilful persuasion, but Hector had agreed to humour her whim of gathering a new bookshelf for the cottage. Was this to be her life? She hardly recognised herself – unable to stand up to her mother-in-law, wary of her own husband, and what he was capable of.
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 10
“Ah, my bride returns,” Hector bent over Esson.
Esson was confused. It was the morning after her wedding and she was lying in her marital bed, naked. Her wedding dress was draped over a chair in one corner but she could hardly recall the evening.
Her last memory was of Hector suggesting she and Elizabeth accompany him to their wing to watch the sunset. And of three glasses of Cognac being poured. Apart from the confusion of memory loss, Esson was in terrible pain.
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 9
For the first hour of the reception she hardly saw him. He was constantly engaged in conversation and didn’t once look around to see where his bride might be. Hector was quite tipsy when the time came for speeches.
“I prised her from Hamlet’s clutches,” he said as titters rippled though the crowd. Esson felt humiliated, but she smiled weakly at his attempts at humour. He took another gulp of his whisky.
He regaled them with the “edges” he would “smooth out” in his new bride. Like another Shakespearean bridegroom, he would tame her. The audience was howling with laughter.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 31
Colonel Fitzwilliam’s manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they received any invitation thither—for while there were visitors in the house, they could not be necessary; and it was not till Easter-day, almost a week after the gentlemen’s arrival, that they were honoured by such an attention, and then they were merely asked on leaving church to come there in the evening.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 8
The newspaper billboards all over Johannesburg apparently hailed: “SHAW IS THE GRANDEST WEDDING”.
When she looked out of her window on her wedding day, she saw no billboards. She only knew of them at all from her personal maid, Charity. Neither did she see any of the pedlars and prostitutes on Pritchard Street. She missed them. This was so beautiful, but she missed them.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 30
Sir William stayed only a week at Hunsford, but his visit was long enough to convince him of his daughter’s being most comfortably settled, and of her possessing such a husband and such a neighbour as were not often met with.
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