“In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.' And he bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.”

—  Eleanor Farjeon, book Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

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English children's writer 1881–1965

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