personalties

Updated: July 7, 2025

Langham, indeed was but faintly interested in the Squire's crimes as a landlord, but there was a certain interest to be got out of the struggle in Elsmere's mind between the attractiveness of the Squire, as one of the most difficult and original personalties of English letters, and that moral condemnation of him as a man of possessions and ordinary human responsibilities with which the young reforming Rector was clearly penetrated.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Robert Elsmere