The Lady's Mile Quotes

“Oh yes,” said the dowager promptly, “you appreciate his goodness, perhaps; but you don't appreciate him. You just tolerate him because he is good and kind to you, and works like a galley-slave to insure your welfare in the future; but if he could read ‘Victor Hugo’ like a play-actor and make an idiot of himself about Mendelssohn, you’d adore him.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon , The Lady's Mile

“But the disease which was undermining Lady Cecil’s moral constitution was not sorrow; it was only the absence of joy.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Lady's Mile