“ When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten. ”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868). copy citation
Author | Wilkie Collins |
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Source | The Moonstone |
Topic | forgetting |
Date | 1868 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/155/155-h/155-h.htm |
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“It has enabled poor Me to serve the caprice of a wealthy member of the family into which my late uncle married. I am fortunate enough to be useful to Mr. Franklin Blake.
I have been cut off from all news of my relatives by marriage for some time past. When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten. I am now living, for economy’s sake, in a little town in Brittany, inhabited by a select circle of serious English friends, and possessed of the inestimable advantages of a Protestant clergyman and a cheap market.”
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