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The Making of a Marchioness
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"The Making of a Marchioness" Quotes

A humble woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she marries into wealth and social status.

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She had been as a child in a dream, and in a dream she had been awakened.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

dreams

She had not been brought up on fairy stories for nothing.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

imagination

It was not the habit of her life to be pleased.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

contentment

She had been too busy living her small, uneventful life to think of romance.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

romance

Happiness was so new to her that the touch of it was like magic.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

happiness

She had never known such a morning.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

appreciation

She had a feeling that something was going to happen to her.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

anticipation

She was thinking it over, and she was not thinking about herself at all.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

selflessness

It seemed as if she had suddenly awakened to a new existence.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

transformation

She had never before known what it was to be noticed.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

recognition