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Death was not to be a leap; it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Source:(Aladine Book, ed. 1860), Book III. The Downfall, Chapter IV, Page 239
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  • Book: The Mill on the Floss
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Published: 1860
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