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Tag: Lady Carbury

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

—from The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

“Henrietta had been taught by the conduct of both father and mother that every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.”

—from The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope