“One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."”

— Anthony Trollope , book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 16

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English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

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