“ It's no kindness to the right sort of wife . . . to make her a widow ”
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898). copy citation
Author | H. G. Wells |
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Source | The War of the Worlds |
Topic | widows |
Date | 1898 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm |
Context
“For I already perceived clearly that the country about London must inevitably be the scene of a disastrous struggle before such creatures as these could be destroyed.
Between us and Leatherhead, however, lay the third cylinder, with its guarding giants. Had I been alone, I think I should have taken my chance and struck across country. But the artilleryman dissuaded me: «It's no kindness to the right sort of wife,» he said, «to make her a widow»; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the woods, northward as far as Street Cobham before I parted with him. Thence I would make a big detour by Epsom to reach Leatherhead.
I should have started at once, but my companion had been in active service and he knew better than that. He made me ransack the house for a flask, which he filled with whisky; and we lined every available pocket with packets of biscuits and slices of meat.” source
Between us and Leatherhead, however, lay the third cylinder, with its guarding giants. Had I been alone, I think I should have taken my chance and struck across country. But the artilleryman dissuaded me: «It's no kindness to the right sort of wife,» he said, «to make her a widow»; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the woods, northward as far as Street Cobham before I parted with him. Thence I would make a big detour by Epsom to reach Leatherhead.
I should have started at once, but my companion had been in active service and he knew better than that. He made me ransack the house for a flask, which he filled with whisky; and we lined every available pocket with packets of biscuits and slices of meat.” source