Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Emergency
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• Painfulness

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  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Emergency