"And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?"
"Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father."


Helen and Arthur (Ch. XL : A Misadventure) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Anne Brontë Quotes

And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter? Yes, to obviate his becoming...

And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter? Yes, to obviate his becoming...

And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter? Yes, to obviate his becoming...

And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter? Yes, to obviate his becoming...