Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865
Birthday: September 29
Death: November 12
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.966, Delphi Classics
topic: Father, Fall, Ornaments, Mr Thornton
