Lathrop

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Anne Warner,  Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs

“ You'd know he was Jathrop Lathrop's child just by the way he sleeps. You remember what a one Jathrop always was for sleeping. I don't know as I remember Jathrop's ever being awake till he was fairly grown. Whatever you set him at always just made him more sleepy. You know yourself, Mrs. Macy, as he wouldn't be no grasshopper with Mrs. Lathrop for his mother, but a cocoon is a comet beside what Jathrop Lathrop always was. I don't know whether he's rich or not, but I do know that heathen Chinee is his son, and I know it just by the way he sleeps. ”
Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Mrs. Humphry Ward Mrs. Humphry Ward,  Delia Blanchflower

“ Get what you can—and how you can. Clearly it was Lathrop's game to take advantage of this queer friendship with a militant who happened to be both rich and young, which his dabbling in their "nonsense" had brought about. Why shouldn't he achieve it? Lathrop was as clever as sin; and there was the past history of the man, to shew that he could attract women.
He gripped his friend's arm as they passed into the shadow of the wood.
Lathrop looked at him with surprise—
"Look here, Paul"—said the younger man in a determined voice—"You've got to pull this thing off."
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Source: Gutenberg

Anne Warner,  Mrs. Lathrop's Love-Affair (1905)

“ Lathrop.
"Romance is a nice thing in its place. I've had my own romances,—four on 'em, an' not many women can say that an' still be unmarried, I guess. I've lived an' I've loved, as the books say; an' I've survived, as I say myself; an' you can believe me or not, jus' as you please, Mrs. Lathrop, but I ain't got no feelin' toward you this night but pity. I wouldn't be you if I could—not now an' not never. I'd really liefer be the deacon, an' Heaven knows 't he's got little enough to look forward to hereafter."
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Source: Wikisource

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