Midnight Webs
1872
Published in 1872, 'Midnight Webs' by George Manville Fenn is a novel set in colonial India, narrated by Isaac Smith, a commissionaire. The story delves into military life, camaraderie, and the social dynamics among soldiers and their families, highlighting interactions with characters like Captain Dyer and Miss Ross. Fenn's work is notable for its authentic portrayal of the challenges faced by soldiers and the underlying tensions with the local population, reflecting the complexities of colonial society.
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“السعادة عيد غير ثابت التاريخ””
— George Manville Fenn
“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.””
— George Manville Fenn
“He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...””
— George Manville Fenn
“I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.””
— George Manville Fenn
“It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.””
— George Manville Fenn
“He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them.””
— George Manville Fenn
“The world breaks everyone and afterwardmany are strong at the broken places. Butthose that will not break it kills. It kills the verygood and the very gentle and the very braveimpartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.””
— George Manville Fenn
“Thank you very much,” the girl said. “You know that another woman, or a woman in memory, is a terrible thing for a young girl to deal with when she is still without experience.””
— George Manville Fenn
“In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am.””
— George Manville Fenn
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