When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers … - Elizabeth Gaskell

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It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

Elizabeth Gaskell

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.

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