“Never mind our kind friends: if they can part our bodies, it is enough; in God's name, let them not sunder our souls!”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Gilbert to Helen

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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