“ The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world ”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868). copy citation
Author | Wilkie Collins |
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Source | The Moonstone |
Topic | women time |
Date | 1868 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/155/155-h/155-h.htm |
Context
“I like to be tender to human infirmity—though I don’t get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. You think Mr. Franklin Blake hasn’t got a suspicion of the girl’s fancy for him? Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let’s hope it will be made up to them in another. You have got a nice garden here, and a well-kept lawn. See for yourself how much better the flowers look with grass about them instead of gravel. No, thank you.”
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