fain caught skirts departing time, prayed return, give back little val — Elizabeth Gaskell, North South

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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ��?All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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