“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
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