Alice Duer Miller,
Manslaughter — Chapter 2
(1921)
“ It was then that Lydia became suddenly dignified and, unbroken, contrived to make him appear like a brute.There is nothing really more unbreakable than a child who considers neither her physical well-being nor public opinion. ”
Alice Duer Miller,
Manslaughter — Chapter 2
(1921)
“ And Adeline, when she found herself alone in the world at thirty, with an income of only a few thousand, continued the family tradition of having what she wanted. She took a small apartment, which she contrived to make charming, and she lived nicely by the aid of her old French nurse, who came and cooked for her and dressed her and turned her out as perfectly as ever. She continued to dine out every night, and though nominally she spent her summers in New York as an economy, she was always on somebody's yacht or in somebody's country house. ”
Alice Duer Miller,
Manslaughter — Chapter 2
(1921)
“ An older person, however violent, has learned that he must consider such questions, and it is a weakness in a campaign of violence to consider anything but the desired end.And on the whole Thorne lost. He could make Lydia do or refrain from doing specific acts—at least he could when he was at home. He had not permitted her at ten to keep her great Danes nor at thirteen to drive a high-stepping hackney in a red-wheeled cart which she ordered for herself without consultation with anyone.The evening after that struggle was over he had asked Miss Bennett to marry him. She knew why he did it. ”
