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Quotation from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
“She approached nearer—and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words fail me to express), The lady is ugly!”
The Woman in White, First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, VI (Project Gutenberg #583)
Walter's first sight of Marian Halcombe at Limmeridge, admiring her figure from behind before she turns; he soon finds her the most engaging person in the house.
Citation: "She approached nearer—and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words fail me to express), The lady is ugly!" — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, VI (Project Gutenberg #583). (id the-woman-in-white-q3)
Portrait: (William) Wilkie Collins by Rudolph Lehmann, Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain.
