A pretty country girl, engaged to John Crumb, the local miller. Sir Felix Carbury made love to her and she followed him to London. John Crumb went after her, thrashed Sir Felix soundly in the street, persuaded Ruby to return home, and eventually married her.
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
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1976 renewed PUP
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