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Her father, a local government official in a western town, a small-minded domestic tyrant, ruined by long years of whisky-nipping between meals; her only brother, profligate and spendthrift, of whose present modes of life the less said the better; her brother-in-law, Henry Lewison, the man whom, in her callow, ignorant youth, she was once to have married, before her younger sister supplanted her a canting hypocrite, who would spend his day in devising petty torments for his wife, and begin and end it with family prayers: these types, in a brooding and self-centred mind, had gradually come to stand for the whole male race.
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