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Barbara Cartland

Love Came From Heaven

  • Farida Yasserhas quoted3 years ago
    There was no innuendo in his voice, no suggestion that he wanted to do anything more than act towards her in a straightforward manner.
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted5 years ago
    she would enjoy, would it not?
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted5 years ago
    Selena felt excited and happy and looking forward to the next day.

    She did not know what it would bring, but surely it would be something
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Isn’t life unpredictable? Who wou
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted5 years ago
    Who would have thought on the ferry this morning that by this evening my life would have changed so much?’
  • fatimahj07has quoted7 years ago
    “If it’s to be a choice between some innocent being savaged and the tiger being shot, I don’t think there’s much to doubt about the decision,”
  • fatimahj07has quoted7 years ago
    although I suppose most of the time they spend in those cages.
  • fatimahj07has quoted7 years ago
    In the first cage was the tiger that had excited the child. Long and lean with striking black stripes, it prowled up and down its cage, its amber eyes taking in everything.
    Selena stood entranced.
    “Hello,” she called out in a calm voice.
    The tiger stopped its pacing and looked at her. She spoke to it again and moved closer and the tiger behind its bars pushed its head towards her in a yearning way.
    She continued talking to the tiger, holding its gaze with her eyes and then stuck out her hand, intending to try and stroke its head.
    Immediately she was pulled away from the cage by one of the circus workers.
    “Don’t do that, miss, you’ll lose it,” he warned her.
    “He seems so sad,” sighed Selena, looking back at the tiger, which had now settled down onto the floor of the cage still gazing at her.
    “He’s not really savage, is he?”
    “Not with me, miss, but then ’e knows me, see? So long as ’e’s kept fed and watered, ’e’s all right.”
  • stephensonanniehas quoted8 years ago
    “If love does not come from Heaven, I cannot think where else it could possibly come from.”
    Barbara Cartland
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