She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
("A Room with a View")
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Oh, hang it all! what's the goodùI mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.
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