But you must unbend, you know. Why, you might take to some light study: conchology, now: I always think that must be a light study. Or get Dorothea to read you light things, Smollett -- Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker: they are a little broad, but she may read anything now she's married, you know. --George Eliot, 1872, Middlemarch
But you must unbend, you know. Why, you might take to some light study: conchology, now: I always think that must be a light study. Or get Dorothea to read you light things, Smollett -- Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker: they are a little broad, but she may read anything now she's married, you know.
--George Eliot, 1872, Middlemarch