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Still slogging through this. I️ loved Stacy Schiff‘s biographies “Véra” and “Cleopatra,” but she doesn‘t write here with the same spark. At least so far. Hopefully it‘s just a slow starter.
"There were those who would have courted her, but Miss Amelia cared nothing for the love of men and was a solitary person. Her marriage had been unlike any other marriage ever contracted in this county—it was a strange and dangerous marriage, lasting only ten days, that left the whole town wondering and shocked."
"The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much"
"Anna said I shouldn't go, that sending me out into the world alone was like setting a wolf loose, and her, my keeper, nowhere near. I was mad at her when she left, even though a part of me knew she was right.
Then she was gone, and I unlocked the cage myself."
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