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She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.
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- 2009 Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
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- Felicia Hemans: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Michael Rossetti: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Katharine Glasier: Georg Meisenbach (1841 – 1912), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Eileen O'Shaughnessy: Bérangère Rouchon-Borie, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Sidney: Nicholas Hilliard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mina Loy: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized