“ The age we live in is an age which finds no human creature inexcusable. ”
Wilkie Collins, Armadale (1864). copy citation
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
|---|---|
| Source | Armadale |
| Topic | age living |
| Date | 1864 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1895/1895-h/1895-h.htm |
Context
“She turned her head suddenly on the pillow, and burst into a harsh, jeering laugh. “Miss!” she repeated over and over again, with the venomously pointed emphasis of the most merciless of all human forms of contempt—the contempt of one woman for another.
The age we live in is an age which finds no human creature inexcusable. Is there an excuse for Mrs. Milroy? Let the story of her life answer the question.
She had married the major at an unusually early age; and, in marrying him, had taken a man for her husband who was old enough to be her father—a man who, at that time, had the reputation, and not unjustly, of having made the freest use of his social gifts and his advantages of personal appearance in the society of women.”
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