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Updated: May 26, 2025

The country people in this precisely Boeotian -shire clutch at me because my father goes up to the Plantagenets for his pedigree not one whit for myself and neglect Ellinor; and only condescend to her father because old Wilkins was nobody- knows-who's son. So much the worse for them, but so much the better for me in this case.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - A Dark Night's Work