“ nothing is beyond mortal perversity; and anything is credible when our fallen natures get the better of us! ”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868). copy citation
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
|---|---|
| Source | The Moonstone |
| Topic | perversity |
| Date | 1868 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/155/155-h/155-h.htm |
Context
“Bruff alone, even now. It seems almost beyond mere mortal perversity that I should have discovered, in what he had just said, a new opportunity of making myself personally disagreeable to him. But—ah, my friends! nothing is beyond mortal perversity; and anything is credible when our fallen natures get the better of us!
“Pardon me for intruding on your reflections,” I said to the unsuspecting Mr. Bruff. “But surely there is a conjecture to make which has not occurred to us yet.”
“Maybe, Miss Clack. I own I don’t know what it is.””
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