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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
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She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
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