[381] Wives and Daughters, I, 394.
[382] Ibid., I, 324. Mrs. Gaskell’s art is shown in making Cynthia a foil to her mother. Like Dr. Gibson and Molly, she sees through that lady’s transparent veiling, but unlike them, she is more frank than polite. Her distressingly literal interpretations of the subtle speeches to which the household is treated, affords a contrast that is lacking, for instance, in the duet of Mrs. Mackenzie and Rosey.
[383] David Copperfield, II, 102.
[384] Dombey and Son, I, 57.
[385] Ibid., 464.
[386] Adam Bede, I, 184.
[387] Romola, II, 469. Cf. Two Years Ago, for a sample of Kingsley’s personally applied, Thackerayan sarcasm on a similar subject,—we young men, “blinded by our self-conceit,” and so on.
[388] Silas Marner, 84. Cf. Catherine Arrowpoint’s interpretation of parental piety: “People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for what they desire any one else to do.” Daniel Deronda, I, 370.
[389] Middlemarch, II, 61. She also refused to marry Fred Vincy if he took orders, because she “could not love a man who is ridiculous.” He would be so because of the entire absence of the clerical in his nature.
[390] Sandra Belloni, 220.