The hold of a child upon the father is so much stronger than that of the father on the child! Our eyes are set in our face, and are always turned forward. The glances that we cast back are but occasional.
An American scholar in London with his wife and his daughter Isabel.
"...an American who had nothing to do with politics and nothing to do with trade. He was a man of wealth and a man of letters.... He was a tall, straight, ungainly man, who always wore black clothes. He had dark, stiff, short hair, a long nose, and a forehead that was both high and broad." - The Duke's Children
GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
