I love the one below (a short explanation of the context first):
(Sir John has taken his son to enrol at College. He spends the night at the school and has a long, emotional discussion with his old friend, School President O'Sullivan. President O'Sullivan worked with Oscar Otwell at the time his elopement with Irene 7 or 8 years before, and provides John with the first confirmation that Irene took off with Oscar. It seems that Sir John had always been holding out hope that Irene would return to him, but now, on his return home, Sir John calls in the lawyers.)
Sir John demands "that the pen of persuasion be dipped into the ink of revenge and spread thickly along the paragraph of blood-related charity to blank the intolerable words that referred to the woman he was now convinced, beyond doubt, had braved the bridge of bigamy.
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Irene Iddesleigh: Your favourite passages
Irene Iddesleigh: Your favourite passages