I'll tell you, said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, what …

Charles Dickens
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I'll tell you, said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did! ✨ Charles Dickens (2016). British Classics: Great Expectations, p.198, The Planet
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