butterfly-women

Updated: June 22, 2025

Scarcely a week had passed before he had discovered the horror and folly of what he had done. He had not, like many men, laid the blame upon the unhappy creature who had led him into these toils. She was no unhappy creature, but one of those butterfly-women without any soul, to whom there are no distinctions of right and wrong.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - A Country Gentleman and his Family