“There's reason for ghastliness. Eustacia, you have held my happiness in the hollow of your hand, and like a devil you have dashed it down!”
Bk. V, ch. 3
The Return of the Native (1878)
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.

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Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book