Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly — something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
The Writings of George Eliot: Middlemarch, a study of provincial life (ed. 1908)
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly — something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
The Writings of George Eliot: Middlemarch, a study of provincial life (ed. 1908)