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3 years ago

Manston was on his legs again in an instant. A fiery glance on the one side, a glance of pitiless justice on the other, passed between them. It was again the meeting in the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite: ‘Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.’

Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies (via talesofpassingtime)

I’ll say it: Aeneas Manston is an underrated villain from Victorian Literature.

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wherestreetshavenoname

3 years ago

Three picture-drawn people came down from their frames,

And dumbly in lippings they told me their names,

Full well though I knew.

from Family Portraits, by Thomas Hardy