‘I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was strangely, at the helm!’
‘it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone’
‘It was all the romance of the nursery and the poetry of the schollroom’
‘I was dazzled by their loveliness’
‘he was looking for little Miles’
‘the extrodinary flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me’
‘a service admirable and difficult’
‘I was a screen-I was to stand before them. The more I saw, the less they would’
‘we lived in a cloud of music and love and success and private theatricals’
‘we faced each other in our common intensity’
1 of 5
‘there was nothing in me there that didn’t meet and measure him’
‘a different adventure’ (referring to vision Mrs Jessel )
‘weary with watching’
‘my boy’
‘they’re talking horrors’
‘resumed their exhibition’ (miles and Flora)
‘like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills’
‘the little wretches denied it’
‘the strange, dizzy lift or swim …into a stillness, a pause of all life, that had nothing to do with the more or less noise that at that moment we might be engaged in making’
‘it wasa part of the flattery of his trust of me’
‘they were too beautiful to be posted; I kept them myself’
2 of 5
‘ I was like a gaoler with an eye to possible suprises and escapes’
‘the curtain rose on the last act of my dreadful drama’
‘the whole thing was virtually out between us’
‘false little lovely eyes’
‘my endless obsession’
‘I would have given….all I possessed on earth really to be the nurse or the sister of charity who might have helped to cure him’
‘seize once more the chance of possessing him’
‘it was literally a charming exhibition of tact, of magnanimity’
‘she met my quick challenge with blank, scared ignorance’
‘I felt the suggestion of my friend’s eyes’
‘a silence by this time flagrantly ominous’
3 of 5
‘What she and I had virtually said to each other was that pretexts were useless now’
‘these three words from her were, in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade’
‘the jostle of the cup that my hand, for weeks and weeks, had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge’
‘Mrs Grose’s suspense blazed at me’
‘she was there, and I was neither cruel nor mad’
‘stabbing little words’
‘I’ve done my best, but I’ve lost you. Good-bye.’
‘he had his freedom now’
‘I was conscious of a mortal coldness and felt as if I should never again be warm’
‘I had her in check’ (Mrs Grose)
‘the great pinch really came’
‘It was precisely, in short, by just clutching the helm that I avoided total wreck’
4 of 5
‘as some young couple who, on their wedding-journey, at the inn, feel shy in the presence of the waiter’
‘we circled about, with terrors and scruples, like fighters not daring to close’
‘getting hold of him, drawing him close’
‘It was like fighting with a demon for a human soul’
‘out of it presently came a sound, not low nor weak, but as if from much farther away, that I drank like a waft of fragrence’
‘by my personal triumph-the influence quenched’
‘I was infatuated-I was blind with victory’
‘If he were innocent, what then on earth was I?
‘My sterness was all for his judge, his executioner’
‘spring straight upon him’
‘they are in my ears still, his supreme surrender of the name and his tribute to my devotion’
‘I held him-it may be imagined with what a passion’
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