Quote#Nature
I have waited for your return these many years. You might have found…
Quote byMary Elizabeth Braddon · 1835–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fenton's Quest (1871), Ch. 14.
English (original)
I have waited for your return these many years. You might have found me more tenderly disposed towards you, had you come earlier; but there are some feelings which seem to wear out as a man grows older,—affections that grow paler day by day, like colours fading in the sun.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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