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Updated: June 19, 2025

Belle asked scornfully one morning to which her mistress answered sharply: "Belle, kindly do not shout so when you come into my room. Do you see that I am writing?" "Gee whiz!" said Belle, sorrowfully, as she went out, and she visibly drooped all day. It was decided that as soon as the Tressadys' San Francisco visit was over, Belle should go.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

But even so, it had not maintained itself. Nevertheless, such impressions and emotions pass. The iron fact of marriage outstays them, tends always to modify, and, at first, to conquer them. Upon the Tressadys' return to London, Letty, at any rate, endeavoured to forget her great defeat of the honeymoon in the excitement of furnishing the house in Brook Street.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I

But the little comedy, transferred to his own hearth, seemed somehow to have lost humour and point. Still, with two young people, under thirty, just entering upon that fateful second act of the play of life which makes or mars us all, moments of dissatisfaction and depression even with Shapetskys and Lady Tressadys in the background were but rare specks in the general sum of pleasure.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I