Godfrey's sister, a guest at Thwaite Hall for the Christmas holidays.
Consolation from the world's deceit is very common. Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs. Some men even do so from their walking-sticks, which is just as rational.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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