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The relationships are rather lopsided in this marriage. Arthur v. John too. I’m sure it will all come right but it is a bit odd now.

“He tried to draw out Helen’s example to teach Violet to endure, and in doing so the other side of the lesson came home to himself. Helen’s life had been one of exertion as well as of submission. It had not been merely spent in saying, ‘Thy will be done,’ but in doing it; she had not merely stood still and uncomplaining beneath the cross, but she had borne it onward in the service of others.”
Chapter 6

Violet is reading Mary Barton!

“but if John chose to shut himself up in a lodging with the most squallingest babby in creation, he was not the man to gainsay him”

😂😂

Oh dear the good old Victorian baby out of nowhere. 🤣👀

I’m trying not to read more than a chapter a day until vacation but it’s hard!

I currently despise Theodora so she’s in for a major redemption arc, I’m guessing. 😅

Whew, poor Violet! I can see how she is like Fanny.