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‘I can’t tell you all my part of the gloom. Your part is that you ought not to have married him. I saw it before you had done it, but I thought I mustn’t interfere. I was wrong. I ought to have!’
‘But what makes you assume all this, dear?’
‘Because—I can see you through your feathers, my poor little bird!”
p. 253

“Though Farmer Troutham had just hurt him, he was a boy who could not himself bear to hurt anything. […] This weakness of character, as it may be called, suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal score the fall of the curtain upon his unnecessary life should signify that all was well with him again.“ 😭😭