A practical and understanding mother, who had successfully married off three daughters and was determined that the fourth, Florence, should be as happy as the others.
As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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University Press.