 | Susan S. Kissel - 1993 - Počet stránok 196
...in a state of the most perfect enjoyment" (150-51). And so Mary Brotherton begins to "employ [her] preposterous wealth in assisting the miserable race from whose labours it has been extracted" (221). Martha Dowling, too, having learned of the plight of laborers from Mary, follows in acts of... | |
 | Susan Zlotnick - 2001 - Počet stránok 346
...dead father's legacy, the ill-gotten gains of his years in the textile business, and she employs her "preposterous wealth in assisting the miserable race from whose labours it has been extracted" (232) in order to undo her father's life work. No wonder the narrator remarks that the death of Mary's... | |
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Do not set me down in your judgments as a hot-headed girl, indifferent to the opinions of society, and anxious only to follow the whim of the moment. Did I belong to any one, I think I should willingly yield to their guidance. But I am alone in the world;... 