I had turned to go back to my own room for a minute or two; but the sound of Laura's name, on the lips of a stranger, stopped me instantly. I dare say it was very wrong and very discreditable to listen - but where is the woman, in the whole range of our sex, who can regulate her actions by the abstract principles of honour, when those principles point one way, and when her affections and the interests which grow out of them, point the other?
(from The Woman In White, by William Wilkie Collins)
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