Status Updates From The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

“And to feel base and yet be born for better is enough to make one grasp at anything cloudy.

“His was an order of mind that would accept the most burdensome charges and by some species of moral rusher make a profit out of them.”

“For there was your mistake my dear ever to leave your husband to go away from you one hour in a young marriage. It’s dangerous. It’s mad.”

“Clever, beautiful but betrayed by Love, it was the first duty of all true men to cherish and redeem them.”

“Not a high morality perhaps; better than none at all: better for the world were it practiced more.

“He left the spot in a serious mood, apprehensive of something dark to the people he loved, though he had no idea of what the Honorable Peter’s stipulation involved.”

“…the high bred indolence in their aspect eclipsed Ripton’s sense of self-esteem. But they kindly looked over him….Ripton got closer to his Hero to justify his humble pretensions to existence and an identity in the shadow of him.”

“Which is more perilous? To meet the temptings of Eve or to pique her?”

“If these women are bad i like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show and deceive you in the end.”

“…lectures me because I don’t hire a house and furnish it for all the women one meets to live in in purity.”

“When people do not themselves know what they mean they succeed in deceiving and imposing upon others.

“His tailor and hairdresser gave youth to John but they had not the art to bestow upon him distinction and an undistinguished man what woman looks at?

“Like all angry and self-interested people prophecy came easy to her. In her heart she accused him of her own fault, imputing to him the wreck of her project.”

“The conquest of an Epicure or any wife’s conquest beyond her husband however loyally devised for their mutual happiness may be costly to her”.

“Adrian only knows a part of people, Lucy; and not the best part.”

“The proposition chimes in with her fears and her wishes…the poor child was not insensible to his flattery and the subtler flattery of making herself in some measure a sacrifice to the home she had disturbed. She agreed to simulate as Adrian had suggested”.

“Would you have had him act as young men in his position generally do to young women beneath them?”