The wealthy owner of a sheep ranch in New Zealand, so harsh and stingy that his young wife hated him. Returning from the town, where he had taken his cousin John after turning him out of his house, he was drowned.
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.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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University Press.