“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLI : Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast; Helen to Esther

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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