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_"Get thee behind me, Satan! I know no other word: There is a battle that must be fought, And fought but with the sword -- _"The clear, sharp, stainless, glittering sword Of purity divine: I'll hew my way through a host of fiends, If that strong sword be mine. "_
"I wish Mrs. Grey, you would learn to hold yourself a little more upright, and look a little more like the master's wife -- a lady in as good a position as any in Avonsbridge -- and a little less like a Resignation or a Patience on a monument."