Mood

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MRS. BIRLING: (agitated) I don't believe it. I won't believe it...
SHEILA: Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop -
INSPECTOR holds up a hand. We hear the front door. They wait, looking towards door. ERIC enters, looking extremely pale and distressed. He meets their inquiring stares. Curtain falls quickly.
-- From J.B. Priestley's play,An Inspector Calls

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'Frail the white rose and frail are / Her hands that gave / Whose soul is sere and paler / Than time's wan wave.' -- From James Joyce's poem, 'A Flower Given to My Daughter'.

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'But there was a cry on the hearth: the child had awakened, and Marner stooped to lift it on his knee. It clung round his neck, and burst louder and louder into that mingling of inarticulate cries with "mammy" by which little children express the bewilderment of waking. Silas pressed it to him, and almost unconsciously uttered sounds of hushing tenderness, while he bethought himself that some of his porridge, which had got cool by the dying fire, would do to feed the child with if it were only warmed up a little.' -- From George Eliot's novel, Silas Marner

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OLD MAN: Threescore and ten I can remember well; within the volume of which time I have seen hours dreadful, and things strange, but this sore night hath trifled former knowings.
ROSSE: Ah! Good father, thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 't is day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
-- From William Shakepeare's play, Macbeth

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'A far rush of wind sounded and a gust drove through the tops of the trees like a wave. The sycamore leaves turned up their silver sides, the brown, dry leaves on the ground scudded a few feet. And row on row of tiny wind waves flowed up the pool's green surface.' -- From John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men.

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'The evening had caught cold; / Its eyes were blurred. / It had a dripping nose / And its tongue was furred.' - From Vernon Scannell's poem, 'November Story'.

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'"Thought I heard something," he said. "Stop a minute."
We stopped.
"Hear anything?" he asked.
"No."
We had not gone five paces before he made me stop again.
"Jem, are you tryin' to scare me? You know I'm too old --"
"Be quiet," he said, and I knew he was not joking.'
-- From Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird

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'Here is the ancient floor / Footworn and hollowed and thin, / Here was the former door / Where the dead feet walked in. / She sat here in her chair, / Smiling into the fire; / He who played stood there, / Bowing it higher and higher.' -- From Thomas Hardy's poem, 'The Self-Unseeing'.

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'I am never neglecting my responsibility, / I am discharging it properly, / I am doing my duty, / But who is appreciating / Nobody, I am telling you. / My desk is too small, / the fan is not repaired for two months, / three months. / I am living far off in Borivali, / My children are neglecting studies, / How long this can go on?' -- From Nissam Ezekial's poem, 'The Railway Clerk'

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BIRLING: What I did want to say was - that Sheila's a lucky girl - and I think you're a pretty fortunate young man too, Gerald.
GERALD: I know I am - this once anyhow.
BIRLING: (raising his glass) So here's wishing the pair of you - the very best that life can bring. Gerald and Sheila.
-- From J.B. Priestley's play, An Inspector Calls.