Sabine Baring-Gould,
Moth-Mullein — Chapter V
“ Other things more unlikely might happen than that young Ruddle should offer her to share his home, and love her all the more dearly because she had broken his leg. He was a good-looking fellow; Jessie rather liked him. True he belonged to a lower stage on the social ladder than Sam Underwood, and Sam Underwood was a rung lower than Mr Parkinson, who was a brewer’s son. ”
Sabine Baring-Gould,
Moth-Mullein — Chapter V
“ Well—if Mr Parkinson did not propose to make her Mrs Parkinson, she would have Sam Underwood, and if Sam Underwood still sulked, she would waive the difference in social standing between the other two, and for the sake of his handsome face and general steadiness take Joe Ruddle. If, however, his broken leg made the carpenter halt in his love-making, she could always fall back on Ben Polson. ”
Sabine Baring-Gould,
Moth-Mullein — Chapter V
“ It was one of those houses in which people of no taste delight, because so compact, but which are eyesores to such as have a sense of beauty, houses which, even when ugliness-hating Nature reduces them to ruins, will never make even picturesque ruins. ”
