The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a nation; she dates from battle to battle, and passes her days in an interminable civil war.


Our Village (1848)

Mary Russell Mitford Quotes

The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a...

The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a...

The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a...

The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a...