[Roderick Hudson by Henry James]@TWC D-Link book
Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER V
40/81

I assure you it 's well for you susceptible young men that you don't see her when she sobs.

She said, in so many words, that her mother was an immoral woman.

Heaven knows what she meant.

She meant, I suppose, that she makes debts that she knows she can't pay.

She said the life they led was horrible; that it was monstrous a poor girl should be dragged about the world to be sold to the highest bidder.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books