"Goodbye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the lesson and the compliment. Don't forget to call round at my camp, any time you're crossing Koolybooka. Goodbye." ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... while at the temple, we returned to the Palace, and the ladies said goodbye and took chairs to the Palace gate, where their own chairs were waiting for them. I then went to report to Her Majesty in the usual way what had been said by the visitors; whether they had expressed themselves as being pleased with the reception they had received. ...
— Two Years in the Forbidden City • The Princess Der Ling
... of the discreet chapels mentioned in old novels and old melodies, where they knighted the page starting for the Holy Land, one morning when the stars were dim and the lark trilled, while the mistress of the castle slipped her white hand through the bars of the iron gate and wept when he kissed her goodbye. ...
— Over Strand and Field • Gustave Flaubert
... engaged—she had promised to be my wife, and then she took back her promise. Child, I meant to tell you, I always meant to tell you, but I did not like to grieve you by what was over and gone; but I am dying—God knows I can not live in this weakness—let me see Margaret once, and bid her goodbye before I go." ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... and concerning how you fare with them. I should so like to know! Yes, you must write again. Tonight I have purposely looped the curtain up. Go to bed early, for, last night, I saw your candle burning until nearly midnight. Goodbye! I am now feeling sad and weary. Ah that I should have to spend such days as this one has ...
— Poor Folk • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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