domvilles

Updated: May 2, 2025

And when the county-town lost its attraction for the Astleys, the Dunstans, the Waverhams, how could it be supposed that the Domvilles, the Bextons, and the Wildes would continue to go and winter there in their second-rate houses, and with their increased expenditure? Even that was not so very bad, compared with the next innovation on the old glories.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth