Wives and Daughters Quotes
Aimée: I think Roger likes you very much.
Molly Gibson: There was a time we used to be like brother and sister.
Aimée: No. I don't think so.
Molly Gibson: There was a time we used to be like brother and sister.
Aimée: No. I don't think so.
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Lady Cumnor: Now Claire, when I think a thing I say it out loud. I don't beat about the bush. You have spoiled that girl of yours until she does not know her own mind. She has behaved abominably to Mr Pweston and it is all due to the faults in her education. You have much to answer for.
Claire Gibson: Cynthia... and Mr Preston?
Lady Cumnor: Claire! Do you mean to tell me you don't know. Your daughter has been engaged to Mr Pweston for some time. Years I believe. And has now decided to break it off. To be a "jilting jessie" as we used to call it.
Lady Harriet Cumnor: Mr Preston did not want it spoken of.
Lady Cumnor: She has used the Gibson girl as a cat's paw and made her and herself the butt of all the gossip in Hollingford.
Claire Gibson: Cynthia... and Mr Preston?
Lady Cumnor: Claire! Do you mean to tell me you don't know. Your daughter has been engaged to Mr Pweston for some time. Years I believe. And has now decided to break it off. To be a "jilting jessie" as we used to call it.
Lady Harriet Cumnor: Mr Preston did not want it spoken of.
Lady Cumnor: She has used the Gibson girl as a cat's paw and made her and herself the butt of all the gossip in Hollingford.
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Mr. Gibson: Women are queer, unreasoning creatures and just as likely as not to love a man who's been throwing his affection away.
Roger Hamley: Thank you sir, I see you mean to give me encouragement.
Mr. Gibson: My encouragement is neither here nor there, for if she can stomach ya, I dare say I can.
Roger Hamley: Thank you sir, I see you mean to give me encouragement.
Mr. Gibson: My encouragement is neither here nor there, for if she can stomach ya, I dare say I can.
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Mr. Gibson: Is this true Cynthia?
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Molly knows it all.
Mr. Gibson: Yes, I know that and that she has had to endure gossip and slander for your sake. But more she refused to tell me.
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Oh, she told you that much did she?
Molly Gibson: I couldn't help it.
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Why did you have to say anything at all?
Mr. Gibson: Because her reputation was attacked for your misconduct and I demanded an explanation.
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Molly knows it all.
Mr. Gibson: Yes, I know that and that she has had to endure gossip and slander for your sake. But more she refused to tell me.
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Oh, she told you that much did she?
Molly Gibson: I couldn't help it.
Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Why did you have to say anything at all?
Mr. Gibson: Because her reputation was attacked for your misconduct and I demanded an explanation.
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Roger Hamley: Then may I come to the house? Just once?
Mr. Gibson: No definitely not and there I come in as a doctor as well as a father. No.
Roger Hamley: Then if I don't come back I shall haunt you for having been so cruel.
Mr. Gibson: Come, I like that. Give me a wise man of science in love. No-one to beat him for folly.
Mr. Gibson: No definitely not and there I come in as a doctor as well as a father. No.
Roger Hamley: Then if I don't come back I shall haunt you for having been so cruel.
Mr. Gibson: Come, I like that. Give me a wise man of science in love. No-one to beat him for folly.
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