It could not be that he fancied Lady Rosina to be clever, nor can we imagine that her conversation satisfied any of those wants to which he and all of us are subject. But nevertheless he like Lady Rosina and was never bored by her. She was natural, and she wanted nothing from him. When she talked about cork soles she meant cork soles.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
on straightforwardness
a short quote from Anthony Trollope's fifth book in the Palliser series The Prime Minister
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