Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion th…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion that equaled my own. I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). Horror of the Heights: And Other Tales of Suspense, p.88, Chronicle Books
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