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Random quotes Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!” A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, / Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, / And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings / His soul and body to their lasting rest. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Your Radiance has stated the case much better than I could have hoped to do myself. I see that you are eloquent as well as beautiful. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. Involuntarily Lucette bent her head and frail spine, then she lay back on the outer half of Ada’s pillow in a martyr’s pudibund swoon, her locks spreading their orange blaze against the black velvet of the padded headboard. All Van saw there of his new Ada were her ivorine thighs and haunches, and the very first time he clasped them she bade him, in the midst of his vigorous joy, to glance across her shoulder over the window ledge [...]. High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.