“ If you ever find a man who is fool enough to marry you, he will be a lucky man if you only love him half as well, a quarter as well, a hundred-thousandth part as well, as I loved your father. ”
Wilkie Collins, Armadale (1864). copy citation
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
|---|---|
| Source | Armadale |
| Topic | love father |
| Date | 1864 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1895/1895-h/1895-h.htm |
Context
“Am I to learn how to speak of your father, and how to think of your father, and how to love and honor your father, from a forward little minx like you! I was finely disappointed, I can tell you, when you were born—I wished for a boy, you impudent hussy! If you ever find a man who is fool enough to marry you, he will be a lucky man if you only love him half as well, a quarter as well, a hundred-thousandth part as well, as I loved your father. Ah, you can cry when it’s too late; you can come creeping back to beg your mother’s pardon after you have insulted her. You little dowdy, half-grown creature! I was handsomer than ever you will be when I married your father.”
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