William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.”
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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