“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.”

—  Harriet Beecher Stowe , book Old Town Folks

Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 2.

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