But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.
("The Forgotten Garden")
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The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.Kate Morton
Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.
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For the perfect gentleman was out there somewhere, waiting for her. He would be nothing like Father, he would be an artist, with an artist's sense of beauty and possibility, who didn't care two whits about bricks and bugs. Who was open and easy to read, whose passions and dreams brought light to his eyes. And he would love her, and only her.
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So much in life came down to timing.
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Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.
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It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.
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