Kathryn Schrumpf

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And we may conclude that this subservience of refinement to vulgarity is the rule in many households, when we think, conversely, of all the superior women who yield to the blandishments of a boor, merciless in his censure of their most delicate utterances, while they themselves, with the infinite indulgence of love, are enraptured by the feeblest of his witticisms.
In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
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