'...and I liked him so much, and bought a new cookery-book, all to make it pleasant and agreeable and what he was used to.' She said all this in a plaintive, aggrieved tone of voice; but as no one knew to what she was referring, it was difficult to offer her consolation.
from Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell {Chapter 38}
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Is that a quote from Molly's stepmother? I really wanted to give her smack.
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